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 .....................................14
Asylum Procedure ................................................................................................................19
A.
General ........................................................................................................................................ 19
1.
Flow chart ................................................................................................................................. 19
2.
Types of procedures ................................................................................................................ 21
3.
List of authorities intervening in each stage of the procedure ................................................. 21
4.
Number of staff and nature of the first instance authority ........................................................ 22
5.
Short overview of the asylum procedure.................................................................................. 22
B.
Access to the procedure and registration ............................................................................... 23
1.
Access to the territory and push backs .................................................................................... 23
2.
Reception and identification procedure .................................................................................... 24
3.
Registration of the asylum application ..................................................................................... 31
C.
Procedures ................................................................................................................................. 38
1.
Regular procedure ................................................................................................................... 38
2.
Dublin ....................................................................................................................................... 54
3.
Admissibility procedure ............................................................................................................ 62
4.
Border procedure (airport and port transit zones) .................................................................... 64
5.
Fast-track border procedure (Eastern Aegean islands) ........................................................... 66
6.
Accelerated procedure ............................................................................................................. 76
D.
Guarantees for vulnerable groups ........................................................................................... 78
1.
Identification ............................................................................................................................. 78
2.
Special procedural guarantees ................................................................................................ 87
3.
Use of medical reports ............................................................................................................. 90
4.
Legal representation of unaccompanied children .................................................................... 91
E.
Subsequent applications ........................................................................................................... 92
F.
The safe country concepts........................................................................................................ 94
1.
Safe third country ..................................................................................................................... 95
2.
First country of asylum ........................................................................................................... 105
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