Table of Contents
Glossary ..................................................................................................................................6
List of Abbreviations ..............................................................................................................7
Statistics .................................................................................................................................8
Overview of the legal framework .........................................................................................10
Overview of the main changes since the previous report update .....................................13
Asylum Procedure ................................................................................................................17
A.
General ........................................................................................................................................ 17
1.
Flow chart ................................................................................................................................. 17
2.
Types of procedures ................................................................................................................ 19
3.
List of authorities intervening in each stage of the procedure ................................................. 19
4.
Number of staff and nature of the first instance authority ........................................................ 20
5.
Short overview of the asylum procedure.................................................................................. 20
B.
Access to the procedure and registration ............................................................................... 21
1.
Access to the territory and push backs .................................................................................... 21
2.
Reception and identification procedure .................................................................................... 22
3.
Registration of the asylum application ..................................................................................... 27
C.
Procedures ................................................................................................................................. 35
1.
Regular procedure ................................................................................................................... 35
2.
Dublin ....................................................................................................................................... 48
3.
Admissibility procedure ............................................................................................................ 54
4.
Border procedure (airport and port transit zones) .................................................................... 56
5.
Fast-track border procedure (Eastern Aegean islands) ........................................................... 58
6.
Accelerated procedure ............................................................................................................. 65
D.
Guarantees for vulnerable groups ........................................................................................... 67
1.
Identification ............................................................................................................................. 67
2.
Special procedural guarantees ................................................................................................ 73
3.
Use of medical reports ............................................................................................................. 74
4.
Legal representation of unaccompanied children .................................................................... 74
E.
Subsequent applications ........................................................................................................... 75
F.
The safe country concepts........................................................................................................ 76
1.
Safe third country ..................................................................................................................... 77
2.
First country of asylum ............................................................................................................. 81
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