With a Police Circular of 18 June 2016 communicated to all police authorities, instructions were provided inter alia as to the procedure to be followed when a third-country national remaining in a detention centre or a RIC wishes to apply for international protection, which includes persons subject to the border procedure.581 MoMA has not publicly released specific data regarding the number of asylum applications processed under the border procedure at airports for the year 2024. 4.2. Personal interview Indicators: Border Procedure: Personal Interview Same as regular procedure 1. Is a personal interview of the asylum applicant in most cases conducted in practice in the border procedure? Yes No ❖ If so, are questions limited to nationality, identity, travel route? Yes No ❖ If so, are interpreters available in practice, for interviews? Yes No 2. Are interviews conducted through video conferencing? Frequently Rarely Never The personal interview at the border is conducted according to the same rules as those described under the regular procedure. Where the application has been lodged at the Athens International Airport transit zone, the asylum applicants are transferred in most cases to the AAU of Amygdaleza for the full registration of their asylum application and for the interview. GCR is not aware of any interview through videoconferencing in the transit zones to date. 4.3. Appeal Indicators: Border Procedure: Appeal Same as regular procedure 1. Does the law provide for an appeal against the decision in the border procedure? Yes No ❖ If yes, is it Judicial Administrative ❖ If yes, is it automatically suspensive Yes Some grounds No The Asylum Code foresees a deadline of 10 days for submitting an appeal against a first instance negative decision issued under the border procedure.582 The automatic suspensive effect of appeals depends on the type of negative decision challenged by the applicant (see Admissibility Procedure: Appeal and Accelerated procedure - Appeal. Appeals against decisions rejecting applications under the border procedure may not carry an automatic suspensive effect if the individual benefits from the necessary assistance of an interpreter, legal assistance and at least one week to prepare the application for leave to remain before the Appeals Committee.583 In practice, in such cases, the appellant has to submit a separate request before the Appeals Committee for leave to remain on Greek territory pending the outcome of the appeal. This request is being examined by the Appeals Committee on the same day as the appeal, so there has been no issue of removal from the country until the notice of the second instance decision, as, in practice, only the submission of the request for leave to remain has a suspensive effect. In cases where the appeal is rejected, the applicant has the right to file an application for annulment before the Administrative Court (see Regular procedure: Appeal). 581 582 583 Police Circular No 1604/16/1195968/18-6-2016, available in Greek at: https://tinyurl.com/ye85mfbc. Article 95(3)(c) Asylum Code. Article 110(3) Asylum Code. 114