statement of the facts of the case along with the main claims of the appellant, as well as a matching of said claims (αντιστοίχιση ισχυρισμών) with the country of origin information that will be presented before the competent Committee in order to decide. 402 Both the IPA and the Asylum Code have maintained the same tasks for “rapporteurs” provided by EUAA. 403 However, according to the IPA, this is not only foreseen “in case of a large number of appeals”. Articles 95(4) IPA and 100 (4) Asylum Code provides that each member of the Appeals Committee may be assisted by “rapporteurs” provided by EUAA. As in previous years404, data on the number of Rapporteurs during 2025 was not published by the MoMA. Though the 2025 EUAA operational plan for Greece includes reference to support provided by the Agency to the Greek authorities in the context of Appeals,405 there is no specification on the type and number of relevenat personnel. Number of appeals and recognition rates at second instance A total of 12,552 appeals were lodged against Asylum Service decisions throughout Greece in 2025, of which 12,129 on the mainland and 423 on the islands.406 The Independent Appeals Committees handed down a total of 10,700 decisions in 2025, 319 of which concerned archivals and implicit/explicit withdrawals.407 Decisions by the Independent Appeals Committees: 2025 Refugee status Subsidiary protection Rejected Inadmissible 319 125 6,388 3,502 Source: MoMA, Statistics: Consolidated Reports – Overview, December 2025 - International Protection | Appendix A, available at: https://migration.gov.gr/statistika/, Table 8b. An additional 19 appeals against decisions revoking protection status were accepted, while 28 out of the 6,388 rejected cases concerned the maintenance of subsidiary protection granted at 1st instance. As in previous years,408 the recognition rate at second instance remained exceptionally low. Out of the total in-merit decisions (6,879), the rejection rate reached 92.9%, while refugee recognition rate stood at 4.6% and subsidiary protection rate at 1.8%. The majority of second instance decisions granting international protection in 2025 concerned stateless persons (44%), followed by nationals of Afghanistan (29.03%), Syria (26.16%), Eritrea (15.38%), and China (13.64%), with Nepal (0%), Bangladesh (0%), India (0%), Albania (0.36%) and Pakistan (0.64%) being at the lower end of the spectrum. 409 Out of the 3,502 decisions rejecting appeals as inadmissible, close to half (49.5% or 1,732) were rejected due to late submission,410 i.e., on grounds that the appeal had been filed after the deadline provided in the law. According to the Ministry, the recognition rate between at frist instance (AS) has been 53,1% refugee status and 5,2% subsidiary protections while at the second instance the rate was 3.1 % and 1.2 % respectively. 411 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 Article 62(6) L 4375/2016, Article 95(5) IPA. Article 62(6) L 4375/2016, Article 95(5) IPA, Article 100(5) Asylum Code. See previous AIDA reports n Greece, avilble at: https://asylumineurope.org/reports/country/greece/. EUAA, Operational plan 2025 agreed by the European Union Agency for Asylum and Greece, available at: https://tinyurl.com/mrxmpbws, pp. 7-8. MoMA, Statistics: Consolidated Reports – Overview, December 2025 - International Protection | Appendix A, available at: https://tinyurl.com/26ynfarpTable 9a. Ibid. Table 8b. See previous AIDA reports on Greece, available at: https://asylumineurope.org/reports/country/greece/. MoMA, Statistics: Consolidated Reports – Overview, December 2025 - International Protection | Appendix A, available at: https://tinyurl.com/26ynfarp p.15. Ibid. Table 8b. MoMA, Statistics: Consolidated Reports – Overview, December 2025 - International Protection | Appendix A, available at: https://tinyurl.com/26ynfarp, p.15. 89