ANNUAL POLICY REPORT 2012 the Minister of Public Order and Citizen Protection in response to a current question in the Parliament, there were 55,000 pending applications151. In 2012, in the framework of implementation of the provisions of L. 3709/2011, the PD 102/2012 "Organization and Operation of first reception Services at the Ministry of Public Order and Citizen Protection" and the PD 104/2012 "Organization and Operation of Asylum Service in the Ministry of Public Order and protection of citizens" were enacted. They were followed by the enactment of PD 116/2012 which amends the provisions of P.D.114/2010 and prolongs the maximum period of asylum seekers detention beyond three months provided there is a specially reasoned decision by the competent Police Director or, as far as the General Police Directorates of Attica and Thessaloniki are concerned, by the competent Aliens' Police Director, if the reasons for it continue to exist, in accordance with paragraph 2 of Article 13 of Presidential Decree 114/2010. The extension of detention coupled with the prevailing conditions in the detention centers of asylum seekers brought sharp criticism in that PD in December 2012 after a visit by the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Francois Crepeau, who visited 11 detention centers. He stated that living conditions are unacceptable in some of them, and he added that deprivation of freedom of people who have not committed offenses is cruel152. Also in September 2012, by the Joint Ministerial Decision 7001/2/1454-kd '/ 2012' “Defining quality and safety standards of organizations of civil society" Article 9, paragraph 5 of law 3907/2011 was implemented 153 through identification of appropriate quality and safety standards to operators of civil society to be able to carry out their respective responsibilities in a Centre or a Unit of First Reception. Following this Decision, the Director of the Asylum Service issued a decision154 on the establishment of a register of civil society agencies that meet these standards. Regarding the progress made with regards to the Common European Asylum System (CEAS), and in addition to the activation of the new Asylum Service which is essential for the alignement with the Common European Asylum Policy, Greece sought to improve the asylum seekers’ accomodation facilities and the infrastructure for the examination of asylum claims. In the allocation of European funds to Member States on the basis of the provisional budget of the four Funds of the General Program "Solidarity and Management of Migration Flows" for 2012, Greece received from the European Refugees Fund (ERF) 3,601,857 euros. In this framework, the national action 151 http://www.hellenicparliament.gr/UserFiles/a08fc2dd-61a9-4a83-b09a09f4c564609d/es20121210.pdf 152 http://www.euro2day.gr/news/highlights/121/articles/743161/Article.aspx 153 Gov. V2491/2012, KYA7001/2/1454-kd '/ 2012 setting quality and safety standards of organizations of civil society, http://www.synigoros.gr/resources/docs/kya7001-2-kd.pdf 154 Establishment of Registry of institutions of civil society so that they may carry out individual tasks of the Regional Asylum Offices in accordance with the provisions of Article 2 paragraph 7 of Law 3907/2011. »Http://www.synigoros.gr/resources/docs / 2454-12.pdf 55