ANNUAL POLICY REPORT 2012 5.3 Intra-EU Solidarity including Relocation Greece did not participate in relocation programs as the national asylum system is already disproportionately burdened. 5.4 Cooperation with third countries including Resettlement Greece did not participate in resettlement programs as the national asylum system is already disproportionately burdened. 6. UNACCOMPANIED MINORS AND OTHER VULNERABLE GROUPS The highly strained Greek asylum system, which in recent years had surpassed his abilities, affects the most vulnerable groups of asylum seekers and especially unaccompanied minors and women. In the frame of restructuring of Greek asylum system for its harmonisation to the Common European Asylum System, the Law 3907/2011 (which established the Asylum Service and the First Reception Service, as autonomous services reporting directly to the Minister of Public Order and Citizen Protection), provides for special treatment of minors and those belonging to vulnerable groups. 6.1 Unaccompanied Minors The Presidential Decree 114/2010, 'Establishing a uniform identification process to foreigners and stateless refugee status or subsidiary protection (in compliance with EU Directive 2005/85/EC) "which applies until the new Asylum Service will be fully functional, improved the previous framework regarding unaccompanied minors. The changes are as follows: a) Article 12 which regulates issues relating to the application for asylum by minors, refers not only to the guardian but also to whoever engage in its acts, b) such persons are always invited to attend the interview of the unaccompanied minors, c) asylum applications of unaccompanied minors are examined under the usual procedures and in priority, d) in the event that through the procedure for determining the age does not occur with certainty that the applicant is an adult, he should be treated as a minor, e) In accordance with Article 13, regarding detention of asylum seekers, the detention of minors should be avoided. Also, children separated from their families and unaccompanied minors can be detained only for the time necessary until their safe referral to adequate accommodation facilities for minors. Law 3907/2011 also refers to unaccompanied minors. Article 10 refers to the reception centers and art.18 to the ratione materiae of the return process, classifies unaccompanied minors on vulnerable groups. Article 25 for Return and removal of unaccompanied minors requires the consideration of the child's best interests before deciding to issue a return decision. It is also provided that before removing an unaccompanied minor from the country, the competent authorities establish that he/she will be returned to a member of his/her family, a nominated guardian or appropriate reception facilities. 58