Asylum applicants are entitled to reception conditions from the time they make an asylum application and throughout the asylum procedure. As regards children, reception conditions apply to minors, unaccompanied or not, and to separated minors, regardless of whether they have made an application for international protection.918 In case of status recognition, reception conditions are terminated (with exceptions) within 30 days of the notification of the positive decision. In the specific case of UAM, this time limit starts counting from the time they reach adulthood. 919 The law also foresees that the provision of all or part of the material reception conditions presupposes that asylum applicants lack employment or that their employment does not provide them with sufficient resources to maintain an adequate standard of living that is sufficient to safeguard their health and sustenance.920 The latter is examined in proportion to the financial criteria determining eligibility for the Social Solidarity Benefit (Κοινωνικό Επίδομα Αλληλεγγύης, KEA),921 which was renamed to Minimum Guaranteed Income (Ελάχιστο Εγγυημένο Εισόδημα) in 2020.922 The law also provides that reception conditions can be reduced or withdrawn following an individual and justified decision by the competent reception authority, based on the full set of grounds provided under Article 20 of the (recast) Reception Directive, including if it is established that the applicant concealed their financial resources or if they have lodged a subsequent asylum application. 923 That being said, as in previous years, delays in accessing reception on account of chronic delays in accessing asylum on the mainland (see also Access to the procedure on the mainland) have persisted in 2025 as well. Recurrent interruptions of the online platform established by the MoMA for the purposes of booking appointments for the registration of asylum appplications in the summer of 2022,924 and/or lack of available appointments for applicants to register their applications have remained a key reason for delays, which have continued resulting in risk of arbitrary arrest and detention of asylum seekers awaiting registration, and their non-access to reception conditions.925 In parallel, the MoMA’s practice of not acknowledging the acquisition of the status of asylum applicant to persons having already booked a registration appointment, in spite of a number of decisions by national courts on the matter during previous years,926 likewise persisted in 2025, further consolidating the risk to which applicants awaiting for their registration are exposed on the Greek mainland. As increasingly observed by GCR’s Legal Unit, since 2023, this has frequently resulted in the arbitrary use of detention for the purpose of returning people who had already registered their will to apply for asylum via the platform. In at least eight cases represented by GCR in 2023, most of which concerned applicants from Afghanistan, competent First Instance Administrative Courts have also ruled that upon requesting the scheduling of the registration of an application for international protection via the platform, the persons concerned receive the status of an asylum applicant, as per the law. Yet, instead of reviewing the practice, the Greek authorities filled a request for the first of these Decisions to be revoked before the Administrative 918 919 920 921 922 923 924 925 926 Article 37(1) and 62(3) Asylum Code. Article 109 Asylum Code. Article 59(3) Asylum Code. Article 235 L 4389/2016. Article 29 L. 4659/2020. Article 61 Asylum Code. MoMA, Launch of the online application platform for asylum seeker registration appointments, 13 July 2022, available in Greek at: https://bit.ly/43PpBki. For more on the skype system, see MIT, Lives on Hold: Access to Asylum on Mainland Greece, Crete and Rhodes, November 2021, available at: https://bit.ly/3JOqBe2. MIT, Blocked from the system: Voices of people excluded from the asylum procedure on mainland Greece, Crete and Rhodes, May 2022, https://bit.ly/45wetd3. MIT, Statement on new registration asylum procedure, 1st September 2022, available at: https://bit.ly/3Ms6Onu. Also see GCR, COMMUNICATION of the GREEK COUNCIL FOR REFUGEES to the COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS of the COUNCIL OF EUROPE (Rule 9.2.) with regard to the execution of M.S.S. (Application No. 30696/09) and H.A. and others (Application No. 4892/18) GROUP of cases, April 2025, available at: https://tinyurl.com/yzdmexdk, paras. 7-9 and stiftung Pro Asyl & RSA, Asylum System in Decline: Submission to the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers in the cases of M.S.S. v. Greece / H.A. v. Greece, April 2025, available at: https://tinyurl.com/45xm2pmk, paras. 7-10. For more, see previous AIDA reports on Greece, available at: https://asylumineurope.org/reports/country/greece/. 196