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Access to procedures and non-refoulement
- Relevant EU legislation
- National legislation
- Competent authority and stakeholders
- Official external border-crossing points
- Emergency measures in cases of mass arrivals
- Protection from refoulement
- Border procedure
- Making an application
- Registering an application
- Lodging an application
- Obligation to surrender original documents
- Other documents
- Requirement to read digital data
- Confidentiality principle
- Information provision
- Interpretation
- Legal assistance and representation
Dublin procedure
- Relevant EU legislation
- National legislation
- Competent authority and stakeholders
- Right to legal counselling
- Provision of information on the Dublin procedure
- Personal interview to determine the Member State responsible
- Notification of the transfer decision
- Remedies
- Transfer arrangements
- Guarantees for minors
Reception
- Relevant EU legislation
- National legislation
- Competent authority and stakeholders
- Organisational aspects
- Allocation of applicants to geographical areas within their territory
- Staff and training
- Reception phases
- Contingency planning
- Overview of different types of reception facilities according to national classification
- Premises at the borders
- Initial reception centres
- Collective accommodation centres
- Individual accommodation centres (such as private houses, flats, hotels)
- Temporary solutions when housing capacities is temporarily exhausted
- Reception facilities for applicants with special needs
- Definition of material reception conditions
- Financial allowances and vouchers
- Material reception conditions provided in kind
- Material reception conditions for vulnerable persons
- Provision of information and counselling
- Freedom of movement
- Employment and vocational training
- Healthcare
- Education for minors
- Socio-cultural orientation and language learning
- Arrangement for private accommodation
- Contribution to reception and healthcare costs
- Sufficient means test
- Circumstances for reducing or withdrawing material reception conditions
- Possible sanctions and procedure
- Review of the sanction decision
Detention
- Relevant EU legislation
- National legislation
- Competent authorities and stakeholders
- Grounds of detention in national law
- Less coercive measures (alternatives to detention)
- Application for international protection and processing while in detention/impact on the asylum procedure
- Access to information and interpretation
- Legal assistance and representation
- Length of detention
- Judicial review of detention
- Conditions of detention
- Legislative overview for detention of applicants with special needs
First instance determination
- Relevant EU legislation
- National legislation
- Competent authority and other stakeholders
- Types of procedures and case processing
- Time limit for a decision and length of the procedure
- Quality assurance of first instance procedures
- Interinstitutional cooperation
- Regular procedure: legal basis
- Regular procedure: competent authority and stakeholders
- Regular procedure: personal interview
- Regular procedure: assessment of an application
- Regular procedure: scope and outcomes of a decision
- Regular procedure: Competent authority to withdraw an application
- Regular procedure: implicit withdrawal
- Regular procedure: explicit withdrawal
- Competent authority: Interviewers
- Special procedural guarantees during the interview
- Possibility to omit the personal interview
- Organisational aspects
- Personal interview: other aspects
- Admissibility procedure
- Accelerated procedure
- Border procedure
- Subsequent application procedure
- Last-minute application pending removal
- Safe country of origin
- Safe third country
- First country of asylum
- European safe third country
- Competent authority for the assessment
- Legal provisions relevant for the assessment
- Grounds
- Guidelines for case officers
- Credibility assessment
- Assessment of facts and circumstances when aspects of the applicant’s statements are not supported by documentary or other evidence
- Time limit for submitting evidence
- COI research
- Decision and outcomes
- COI Unit: background information
- COI Unit: structure and capacity
- COI products
- Remaining aspects of COI units
Forms of protection
- Relevant EU legislation
- National legislation
- Competent authority and stakeholders
- Refugee status
- Subsidiary protection status
- National forms of protection
- Overview
- Provision of information
- Residence permits
- Travel documents
- Freedom of movement
- Access to employment and employment-related education
- Access to education
- Access to procedures for recognition of qualifications and validation of skills
- Social security and social assistance
- Healthcare
- Access to accommodation
- Access to integration measures
- Family reunification for beneficiaries of international protection
Information provision
- Relevant EU legislation
- National legislation
- Competent authority and other stakeholders
- Access to procedure
- Dublin procedure
- During first instance determination
- Legal assistance and representation
- Resettlement and humanitarian admissions
- Content of protection
- Reception conditions
- In detention
Applicants with special needs
- Relevant EU legislation
- National legislation
- Competent authority and other stakeholders
- Training initiatives
- Identification of special needs
- Referral of applicants with special needs
- Reception and care of applicants with special needs and vulnerabilities
- Reception facilities and other housing arrangements
- Detention of vulnerable persons and applicants with special reception needs
- Reception of unaccompanied minors
- Reception facilities and other housing arrangements
- Age assessments
- Access to education
- Access to healthcare
- Transition to adulthood
- Detention of unaccompanied minors
- First instance determination for applicants with special needs
- Access to information
- Personal interview
- Legal assistance
- Best interests of the child in the Dublin procedure
- Guarantees for unaccompanied minors
- Making, registering and lodging an asylum application for unaccompanied minors
- Information provision for unaccompanied minors
- Personal interview for unaccompanied minors
- Legal representation during the asylum procedure for unaccompanied minors
- Legal assistance and counselling for unaccompanied minors
Legal assistance and representation
- Relevant EU legislation
- National legislation
- Competent authority and stakeholders
- Provision of information
- Access to premises
- Requirements - means or merits test
- Modalities to submit a request for legal aid
- Outcome of the request for legal aid
- Service provider at first instance
- Scope of legal assistance at first instance
- Procedural aspects at first instance
- Representation at first instance
- Aspects related to special procedures at first instance
- Aspects related to applicants with special needs at first instance
- Service provider in appeals
- Scope of legal assistance in appeals
- Procedural aspects in appeals
- Type of appeal
- Representation in appeals
- Aspects related to applicants with special needs in appeals
- Right to counselling in the Dublin procedure
- Access to legal aid while in detention
- Selection, qualifications and training
- Mechanisms for quality assurance
- Inter-institutional cooperation
- Reception conditions
- Family reunification
- Temporary protection procedure
- Beneficiaries of international protection
Resettlement and humanitarian admission
- Relevant EU legislation
- National legislation
- Competent authority and stakeholders
- Programmes currently in place
- National commitments for resettlement, humanitarian admissions and emergency quota
- The admission procedure
- Type of protection granted and residence permit issued
- Pre-departure assistance
- Travel arrangements
- Arrival and reception
- Integration support to resettled and admitted refugees
- Resettlement programmes
- Humanitarian admission programmes
- Complementary pathways
- Community sponsorship schemes related to state-led resettlement programmes
- Community sponsorship schemes linked to civil society-led humanitarian admission programmes
- Community sponsorship schemes linked to other complementary pathways
Temporary Protection
- Relevant EU legislation
- National legislation
- Competent authority and stakeholders
- Eligibility
- Admission to territory
- Provision of information
- Procedure to register and be granted temporary protection
- Overview of reception and accommodation
- Organisation of reception and accommodation
- Rights of people granted temporary protection
- Assistance to unaccompanied minors
- Assistance to people with special needs
- Solidarity (relocation of people who are eligible for temporary protection)
- Impact of simultaneous application for international protection

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