Footnotes
- Ministry of Migration and Asylum, Statistics, December 2023, 1, available here; March 2024, 20, available here.
- Articles 38 et seq. Greek Asylum Code, L 4939/2022, Gov. Gazette Α΄ 111/10.06.2022.
- Article 1(q) Greek Asylum Code.
- Based on aggregate of data in the monthly reports of the Ministry of Migration and Asylum.
- JMD 538595/2023, Gov. Gazette Β΄ 7063/15.12.2023.
- JMD 527235/2023, Gov. Gazette Β΄ 6844/05.12.2023.
- Unaccompanied children, detained and imprisoned persons are exempt. Their cases are registered directly by the Regional Asylum Offices (RAO) and Autonomous Asylum Units (AAU) of the Asylum Service: RSA, Registration of asylum applications in the new mainland RIC in Greece, February 2023, available here.
- Note a discrepancy between the total number cited in the reply to parliamentary questions (6,326) and the aggregate of subsequent applications in the monthly reports of the Ministry of Migration and Asylum (6,301).
- Article 91 Greek Asylum Code; JMD 538595/2023. See also RSA & PRO ASYL, The Concept of “Safe Third Country”: Legal Standards & Implementation in the Greek Asylum System, February 2024, available here.
- Article 94(10) Greek Asylum Code; JMD 472687/2021, Gov. Gazette Β΄ 6246/27.12.2021.
- Hence, the Asylum Service often resorted to the provisions permitting omission of the personal interview: Article 82(7) Greek Asylum Code.
- Article 88(9) Greek Asylum Code.
- Article 89(1) Greek Asylum Code.
- Article 94(2) Greek Asylum Code.
- CJEU, C-134/23 Elliniko Symvoulio gia tous Prosfyges, Opinion, 13 June 2024.
- Article 95(1) Greek Asylum Code.
- Articles 88(9) and 95(1) Greek Asylum Code.
- Bearing in mind that this procedure offers lower safeguards. In that regard, Administrative Court of Athens, 54/2023; Administrative Court of Appeal of Piraeus, Α65/2023; Α296/2021; Α292/2021; Α94/2021; Α106/2020.
- Article 72(3) Greek Asylum Code.
- Based on Article 102(3) Greek Asylum Code.
- Due to persisting inconsistency in Asylum Code provisions, 1,599 of those were rejected as manifestly unfounded based on Article 102(3) of the Code and 11 as implicitly withdrawn based on Article 83(3) of the Code.
- CJEU, C-610/23 Al Nasiria, Reference of 3 October 2023.
- Note that the data do not include suspension decisions that may be issued upon annulment of the first instance decision, with a view to ordering an oral hearing at second instance prior to a decision on the merits.
- Article 5(7) L 4375/2016, Gov. Gazette Α΄ 51/03.04.2016.
- Article 15(5) L 3068/2002, Gov. Gazette Α΄ 274/14.11.2002.