As the same template decision has been used since 2016, the finding of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants in 2017 (that “admissibility decisions issued are consistently short, qualify Türkiye as a safe third country and reject the application as inadmissible: this makes them practically unreviewable”)594 remains valid. Respectively, as far as GCR is aware, second instance decisions issued by the Independent Appeals Committees for Syrian applicants systematically uphold the first instance inadmissibility decisions. As mentioned above, during 2022, as a rule, applications examined under the Fast Track Border Procedure submitted by Syrians applicants are rejected as inadmissible on the basis of the safe third country concept. Since June 2021, applications submitted by nationals of Afghanistan, Somalia, Pakistan and Bangladesh are also rejected as inadmissible based on JMD 42799/2021. For a detailed analysis of the first instance decisions rejecting applications submitted by Syrian as inadmissible on the basis of safe third country, see Admissibility, AIDA Report on Greece, update 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019,2020 and 2021 respectively. These findings are still relevant as the same template has been used since mid-2016. An indicative example of a first instance inadmissibility decision can be found in the 2017 update of the AIDA report on Greece, which remains the same up until today. Greece, throughout 2022 maintained the use of the fast-track border procedure under the derogation provisions of Article 95(3) of the Asylum Code.595 In contravention of the boundaries of the border procedure, however, the Asylum Service continued to systematically use the border procedure in the CCAC of Lesvos, Chios, Samos, Leros and Kos in 2022 without there being circumstances of “mass arrivals” or regulations to tthat end after the effects of JMD 15596/2020 ceased at the end of 2021. The Asylum Service took 2,286 first instance decisions in the border procedure in 2022. Yet, only 462 of those were inadmissibility decisions and 74 were manifestly unfounded rejections. This means that the majority of decisions (1,750) exceed the scope of Article 95(1) of the Asylum Code and should not have been issued in that procedure.596 Decisions under the fast-track border procedure [article 90(3)] and JMD 42799/2021 While the JMD 42799/2021 was in force from 7 June to 31 December 2021, a total of 2,000 decisions by the Committees of the Appeals Authority were issued under the fast-track border procedure [article 90(3) IPA] regarding the five main nationalities (Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Pakistan and Bangladesh). Out of the 2,000 decisions under the safe third country concept, 1,635 considered the applications “inadmissible”, (Syria: 542, Afghanistan: 417, Bangladesh: 126, Pakistan: 498 and Somalia: 52). 597 The number of applications deemed admissible under the JMD by the Appeals Committees was 216, and the number of appeals pending by the end of the year reached 1,601. Similarly to previous years, it is worth noting that the statistics provided by the Ministry of Migration and Asylum continue to show inconsistencies.598 Decisions under the JMD 42799/2021 During 2022, 2.709 decisions were issued under the JMD 42799/2021 from the Appeals Committee. Out of these decisions, 2.696 applications of Syrians, Afghans, Somalis, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis 594 United Nations Human Rights Council, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants on his mission to Greece, A/HRC/35/25/Add.2, 24 April 2017, para 81. 595 Article 95(3) Asylum Code. 596 RSA, The Greek asylum procedure in figures in 2022, Analysis of main trends in refugee protection, available at: https://bit.ly/4482hhP, 12. 597 Information provided by the Appeals Authority, 11 March 2022. 598 RSA, The Greek asylum procedure in figures: most asylum seekers continue to qualify for international protection in 2021, available at: https://bit.ly/3qH3qeo, 9. 135