Overview of the legal framework
Main legislative acts relevant to asylum procedures, reception conditions and detention
Title in English
Original Title
Abbreviation
Presidential Decree 220/2007on
the transposition into the Greek
legislation of Council Directive
2003/9/EC from January 27, 2003
laying down minimum standards
for the reception of asylum
seekers
Προεδρικό Διάταγμα
220/2007
Relevant: Instruction 2/2012
Presidential Decree 96/2008 of 25
July 2008 Adaptation of Greek
legislation to the provisions of
Directive 2004/83/EC of the
Council of 29 April 2004 on
minimum standards for the
qualification and status of third
country nationals or stateless
persons as refugees or as
persons who otherwise need
international protection and the
content of the protection granted
Εγκύκλιος 2/2012
Προεδρικό Διάταγμα
96/2008
P.D. 96/2008
http://www.refworld.org/doc
id/4c5272fc2.html
( in English )
Presidential Decree 90/2008,
Adaptation of the Greek
legislation to the provisions of
Council Directive 2005/85/EC of 1
December 2005 on minimum
standards on procedures in
Member States for granting and
withdrawing refugee status
Προεδρικό Διάταγμα
90/2008
P.D. 90/2008
http://emn.ypes.gr/media/1
7801/p.d.%20902008_en.pdf
( in English )
Presidential Decree 114/2010 on
the establishment of a single
procedure for granting the status
of refugee or of beneficiary of
subsidiary protection to aliens or
to stateless persons in conformity
with Council Directive 2005/85/EC
on minimum standards on
procedures in Member States for
granting and withdrawing refugee
status
Law 3907/2011 on the
establishment of an Asylum
Service and a First Reception
Service, transposition into Greek
legislation of Directive
2008/115/EC "on common
standards and procedures in
Member States for returning
illegally staying third country
nationals" and other provisions.
Προεδρικό Διάταγμα
114/2010
P.D. 114/2010
http://www.refworld.org/doc
id/4cfdfadf2.html
( in English )
Nόμος 3907/2011
Law 3907/2011
http://www.refworld.org/doc
id/4da6ee7e2.html
( in English )
P.D. 220/2007
Weblink
http://www.refworld.org/doc
id/49676abb2.html
( in English )
http://www.synigoros.gr/res
ources/docs/egkyklios2.pdf
( in Greek )
Instruction 2/2012
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