(Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta, and Spain) through relocation to other European Union Member States and associated countries, or through financial contributions.496 During 2025, according to MoMA, 259 individuals were relocated to other EU Member States under the voluntary relocation scheme. No unaccompanied minors were relocatied during the year. 497 2.2. Procedure Indicators: Dublin: Procedure 1. Is the Dublin procedure applied by the authority responsible for examining asylum applications? Yes No 2. On average, how long does a transfer take after the responsible Member State has accepted responsibility? Not available There are no specific legal provisions in the Asylum Code regulating the Dublin procedure. Examination for the responsibility of another member state is a part of the regular procedure. Applications are rejected as inadmissible if another member state is found responsible for the examination of an asylum claim (art 89 1(b) of the Asylum Code) The Dublin procedure is handled by the Dublin Unit of the Asylum Service in Athens. Regional Asylum Offices are competent for registering applications and thus potential Dublin cases, as well as for notifying applicants of decisions after the determination by responsible Member State has been carried out. Regional Asylum Offices are also competent for receiving pending cases’ documents and uploading them to an online system of the Asylum Service, to which the Dublin Unit has access. EUAA also assists the authorities in the Dublin procedure. According to the 2022-2024 Operational Plan with the Agency, amended in April 2022 to consider the changes in the operational context in light of the invasion of Ukraine,498 EUAA provides support in processing outgoing requests and information requests, support in processing incoming requests only after agreement on SOPs, training, tools and reporting, support in enhancing processing capacity for transfers, provision of interpretation services for information provision and other activities of the Dublin Unit (face face-to- face and remote). Most administrative procedures, such as the submission of documentation, booking of appointments, receiving copies of an applicant’s file, are conducted only online. Physical presence in the context of Dublin procedures is only required at the registration stage, during which the asylum applicant is being fingerprinted, and must sign the relevant written consent. Applications for international protection cannot be lodged if the person refuses to be fingerprinted. In case of refusal, the person will remain undocumented. The fingerprints are crosschecked in the police’s database for possible Eurodac hits. GCR is not aware of any person who refused to be fingerprinted. Where an asylum application is being lodged in Greece and the authorities consider that another Member State is responsible for examining the application, Greece must issue a request for that Member State to take charge of the applicant no later than three months after the lodging of the application, in accordance with Article 21 of the Dublin III Regulation. However, following a change of practice on the part of the German Dublin Unit following the CJEU’s ruling in Mengesteab, the Greek Dublin Unit strives to send “take charge” requests within three months of the expression of the will to seek international protection, 496 497 498 French Presidency of the Council of the European Union, First step in the gradual implementation of the New Pact on Migration and Asylum: modus operandi of a voluntary solidarity mechanism, 22 June 2022, available at: https://tinyurl.com/mcm778wy. MoMA, Statistics, Consolidated Reports - Overview: December 2025 – International Protection | Appendix A, https://tinyurl.com/26ynfarp , table 17 EUAA, Operational Plan 2022-2024 agreed by the European Union Agency for Asylum and Greece, 1 April 2022, available at: https://bit.ly/420NLHL. 106