effect on 25 June 2025, the date from which, according to the Plenary Session of the Council of State, the hearing of administrative appeals by a single-member panel is prohibited. Appeal Committees interpreted the decision as allowing them to proceed with the hearing even after 25 June, and that the unconstitutionality refers only to the cases that the appeal will be filed after 25 June. As a result, several cases that were appointed to Single Member Committees were decided by the Single Member even after 25 June. GCR represented before the administrative court of Athens the case of a young afghan whose case was decided and rejected from a Single- Judge Committee while the hearing took place after the 25th of June. The application for annulment is still pending, nonetheless the application for postponement of the execution of the decision and thus his return was granted the Court accepting the argument of the applicant that the decision has been in violation of the constitution as prescribed by the decision of the CoS and thus the application is evidently well founded. 610 On the other hand, the Administrative Court of Thessaloniki in a similar case, did not considered that the fact that the hearing took place after the 25 th renders the application evidently well founded. The constitutionality of the negative decision according to the Court is matter to be resolved by the Court of Annulment since the matter of its effect is not clear or well decided upon611 Mention should be made that pending the decision of the CoS, all annulment cases pending before the competent administrative courts concerning Single Judge decisions have been postponed repeatedly over the year awaiting the CoS to resolve on the issue. Nonetheless, even after the decision, the Courts continue to postpone hearings.612 Additionally, the above mentioned decision also affects subsequent applications (see Subsequent applications), since a single judge was also responsible for deciding upon appeals on first instance admissibility rejections of such applications. Rules and time limits for appeal Similar to the first instance fast-track border procedure, truncated time limits are also foreseen in the appeal stage. In particular, the deadline for appealing a negative decision is 10 days, instead of the 30 days deadline foreseen in the regular procedure.613 The Appeals Committee examining the appeal must make a decision within seven days,614 contrary to 30 days in the regular procedure.615 In practice, this very short deadline is difficult for the Appeals Committees to meet, and raises serious concerns over the quality of the decisions issued. The average time (in days) for the issuance of 2nd instance decisions was 89 days from lodging the lodging and 51 days from its discussion.616 As a rule, the procedure before the Appeals Committees must be written, based on the examination of the dossier, except from cases, provided by the Article 102(3) Asylum Code, where the Appeals Committee decides to call for an oral hearing. 617 As far as the appeal procedure is concerned, in addition to the concerns related to the admissibility of appeals in general (see Regular Procedure), it shall be noted that it is practically impossible for the applicants to submit an appeal on their own, i.e., without legal aid. Specifically, Article 98 of the Asylum Code requires, for the appeal to be admissible, inter alia, reference and development of specified reasons for the appeal. At the same time, the negative decisions are served to the applicants in Greek, and though a simplified text in a language the applicant is expected to understand is served as an accompanying 610 611 612 613 614 615 616 617 Decision and file of the case with the author. Decision also with the author Case files with the author. Article 95(3)(c) Asylum Code. Article 95(3)(c) Asylum Code. Article 106(1)(a) Asylum Code. MoMA, Report A December 2024 Appendix A, available here. Article 102(3) Asylum Code. 135