the Asylum Service and the Appeals Authority […]”427. Yet a closer look at the public sources referred to by the MoMA highlights that the specific data is not available. 2. Dublin 2.1. General Dublin statistics: 1 January – 31 December 2022 National data regarding requests in the Dublin procedure since 2021 are not available at the time of publication of the report, therefore the data bellow is based on the latest available statistics published by Eurostat.428 Outgoing procedure Incoming procedure Requests Transfers Requests Transfers Total 2,030 1,037 Total 8,737 0 Germany 458 218 Germany 6,079 0 Italy 390 148 Croatia 1,268 0 Switzerland 251 324 Belgium 445 0 France 215 70 Italy 374 0 Portugal 188 21 Sweden 144 0 Source: Eurostat. Outgoing Dublin requests: 2016 - 2021 Year 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Number 4,886 9,784 5,211 5,459 7,014 n/a GCR does not currently have information regarding the practice of M-S following the CJEU ruling in the Mengesteab case and CJEU judgment in C-47/17 and C-48/17, while GCR’s request for relevant information for 2023 from the MoMA was not replied. Based on GCR’s and other organisations’ experience, during 2022, as in previous years, there were specificities in the handling of cases, based on the Member State the outgoing request is addressed to. Specifically, the Greek Dublin Unit submits all take charge requests within the three-month time limit foreseen in the Regulation.429 The time starts from the moment an application for international protection is officially registered with the Asylum Service. However, the German authorities, following the ruling of the CJEU in the Mengesteab case on 26 July 2017430 consider that the three-month time limit for sending a request to another country starts when the intention to apply for asylum is expressed; formal registration of the application with the Asylum Service is not required. To avoid rejection letters based on this 427 428 429 430 MoMA, Analysis and Studies Office, Reply to GCR’s request for information for the preparation of the updated Annual Report on Greece for 2023 in the framework of the Asylum Information Database (AIDA) project, received on 14 February 2024 (protocol number: 55259). It should be noted that Eurostat statistics related to the implementation of the Dublin III Regulation were last updated in July 2023 and cover the year 2022. According to Eurostat, the next planned statistical update is scheduled for July 2024 and should, presumably, cover the year 2023. See Eurostat, Statistics on countries responsible for asylum applications (Dublin Regulation), July 2023, available at: https://bit.ly/3z5iLwd. Regulation (EU) No 604/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 establishing the criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an application for international protection lodged in one of the Member States by a third-country national or a stateless person (recast). CJEU, C-670/16, Tsegezab Mengesteab v Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Judgment of 26 July 2017, available at: https://bit.ly/3MXWEuK. 88