According to Article 24 P.D. 114/10, where applications for international protection are lodged at the border or at transit zones of sea ports or airports, the accelerated procedure, as described in Article 17 P.D 114/10 must be applied. This means that the applicants enjoy the guarantees provided for in Article 11 paragraph 1 as well as all guarantees provided for in Article 8 which includes communication in language the asylum seekers are reasonably supposed to be able to understand in terms of interpretation services, legal assistance offered by UNCHR or other organisations, information about the asylum procedure, free of charge provision of asylum seeker’s special card - and Article 12 (see Section B2 Regular Procedure above) P.D.114/10 on the guarantees provided to unaccompanied minors. However, if no decision on the asylum application is taken within four weeks, the applicant must be allowed to enter the territory of Greece in order for their application to be examined according to the regular asylum procedure. According to the third paragraph of Article 24 (P.D. 114/10), in the event that the accelerated procedure cannot be practically applied at the border or in a transit zone of sea ports or airports, in particular due to the arrival of a large number of persons lodging applications for international protection, the accelerated procedure may be used in other locations that are in the proximity of the border or transit zone, where these persons are accommodated. In case this Article is applied and where an application of international protection is rejected and a deportation order is issued whose enforcement is suspended pending a judicial review before the Administrative Court of Appeal, the asylum seeker shall be allowed to enter Greece without any passport control until a judgment on the annulment appeal is taken by the Administrative Court of Appeal. The asylum seeker is then obliged to present themselves as soon as possible to the authority territorially competent to examine asylum applications in order to state, in practice quite difficult, their place of residence and to have the special asylum seeker’s card issued. There is no information as to whether this Article is applied in practice and in which areas, as asylum seekers are automatically detained upon entry in Greece and can lodge an asylum claim from detention. It had been reported that in practice, as it is the case for the personal interviews on the asylum application conducted at the border, the lack of interpreters in the police stations and the use of fellowdetainees as interpreters regularly results in inaccurate registration of personal details including age. Also the lack of information about the possibility to apply for international protection has been reported 37 at the border, which obviously constitutes an important obstacle to access to the procedure. Appeal Indicators: - Does the law provide for an appeal against a decision taken in a border procedure? Yes No o if yes, is the appeal o If yes, is it suspensive? judicial administrative Yes No The system of appeals against decisions taken in the border procedure does not differ from the appeal system in the regular procedure as described in section 2 above. The only difference is with regards to the time limit for lodging an appeal in the border procedures which, according to Article 25 (c) of the P.D. 114/10, is 10 calendar days from the date of the serving of the decision rejecting the claim. In practice, it appears difficult to lodge an asylum claim outside Athens due to various reasons. Border authorities frequently refuse to register asylum applications and refuse entry, or remove persons arriving 37 See for instance Greek Council for Refugees, GCR Mission Leros – Agathonissi – Kos (22 September 2012 – 24 September 2012) documenting the case of a group of Syrians in Leros who were first detained for 20 days on Farmakonnisiand than transferred to the Police Department of Leros, without having been informed about the asylum procedure or their legal status and rights. 26