Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .......................................................................................................... 4
ABBREVIATIONS ....................................................................................................................... 6
I. BACKGROUND INFORMATION ......................................................................................... 7
II. LEGAL FRAMEWORK......................................................................................................... 9
COUNCIL OF EUROPE .................................................................................................................... 9
Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights ...................................................... 10
Detention of Asylum Seekers and Irregular Migrants in Europe Resolution 1707 ............... 10
Detention of Asylum Seekers and Irregular Migrants in the Mediterranean ........................ 11
Ongoing Monitoring of Facilities .......................................................................................... 13
EUROPEAN UNION ...................................................................................................................... 13
The Return Directive (2008/115/EC) .................................................................................... 14
The Receptions Conditions Directive (2003/9/EC) ............................................................... 17
Dublin III Regulation (2013/33/EU) ..................................................................................... 18
Asylum Procedures Directive (2005/85/EC) (APD)/Recast Directive (2013/32/EU) .......... 21
GREEK DOMESTIC LAW .............................................................................................................. 24
III. LEGAL ANALYSIS............................................................................................................. 28
COUNCIL OF EUROPE .................................................................................................................. 28
EUROPEAN UNION ...................................................................................................................... 29
GREEK DOMESTIC LAW .............................................................................................................. 33
IV. POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS..................................................................................... 36
JUDICIAL REVIEW ....................................................................................................................... 36
DETENTION FACILITIES .............................................................................................................. 38
LEAST COERCIVE MEASURES ..................................................................................................... 40
DETENTION PERIOD .................................................................................................................... 41
ESTABLISHMENT OF ASSESSMENT INDICATORS AND CRITERIA .................................................. 43
VULNERABLE PERSONS IN DETENTION ...................................................................................... 44
VIOLATION REPORTING AND MONITORING ................................................................................ 45
COOPERATION BETWEEN EUROPEAN UNION AND COUNCIL OF EUROPE SYSTEMS ..................... 45
CONCLUSION ........................................................................................................................... 48
APPENDIX .................................................................................................................................. 49
A1. GLOSSARY TERMS ............................................................................................................... 49
A2. RESOLUTION 1707 ............................................................................................................... 49
A3. LAW 3386/2005, ART. 76 (3)............................................................................................... 56
A4. LAW 3907/2011 ART. 30 (1).................................................................................................56