Recommendations We call on the Greek authorities to: 1. Close the CCACs across Greece, which result in a systematic deprivation of liberty and which are structurally inhuman. Instead, we call on the authorities to accommodate asylum seekers and refugees in dignified community-based accommodation schemes, which respect their freedom of liberty and from where they can access services and support. 2. Ensure that the deprivation of liberty or use of detention for people on the move is only used as a measure of last resort, and in line with international and European human rights standards. 3. End the deprivation of liberty of asylum seeking children in CCACs. 4. Abandon plans to open the Samos PRDC. We call on the European Commission to: 1. Cease funding CCACs in Greece which result in a systematic deprivation of liberty and which are structurally inhuman. 2. Support Greece in accommodating asylum seekers and refugees in dignified community-based accommodation schemes, which respect their freedom of liberty and from where they can access services and support. 3. To continue with infringement procedures against Greece on the basis of the incorrect transposition of the EU Return Directive into Greek law, particularly the systematic detention of asylum seekers in CCACs. Page 52