TABLE OF CONTENTS
Glossary & List of Abbreviations ..........................................................................................5
Statistics .................................................................................................................................6
Overview of the legal framework .........................................................................................10
Overview of the main changes since the previous report update .....................................16
Asylum Procedure ................................................................................................................18
A.
General ........................................................................................................................................ 18
1.
Flow chart: New Procedure ...................................................................................................... 18
2.
Types of procedures ................................................................................................................ 19
3.
List of authorities intervening in each stage of the procedure ................................................. 19
4.
Number of staff and nature of the first instance authority ........................................................ 20
5.
Short overview of the asylum procedure.................................................................................. 21
B.
Procedures ................................................................................................................................. 23
1.
Registration of the asylum application ..................................................................................... 23
2.
Regular procedure ................................................................................................................... 33
3.
Dublin ....................................................................................................................................... 48
4.
Admissibility procedure ............................................................................................................ 53
5.
Border procedure (border and transit zones) ........................................................................... 54
6.
Accelerated procedure ............................................................................................................. 57
C.
Information for asylum seekers and access to NGOs and UNHCR ...................................... 60
D.
Subsequent applications ........................................................................................................... 62
E. Guarantees for vulnerable groups of asylum seekers (children, traumatised persons,
survivors of torture) ........................................................................................................................... 64
1.
Special procedural guarantees ................................................................................................ 64
2.
Use of medical reports ............................................................................................................. 66
3.
Age assessment and legal representation of unaccompanied children .................................. 67
F.
The safe country concepts........................................................................................................ 71
G.
Treatment of specific nationalities ........................................................................................... 72
Reception Conditions...........................................................................................................74
A.
Access and forms of reception conditions ............................................................................. 74
1.
Criteria and restrictions to access reception conditions ........................................................... 74
2.
Forms and levels of material reception conditions ................................................................... 75
3.
Types of accommodation ......................................................................................................... 76
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