Traduction de «Fin de l'asile » (Français → Anglais) :

The pieces of legislation concerned focus on fairer, quicker and better quality asylum decisions (the Asylum Procedures Directive); ensuring that there are humane physical reception conditions (such as housing) for asylum seekers across the EU (the Reception Conditions Directive); and clarifying the grounds for granting international protection (the Qualification Directive).

The completion of the Common European Asylum System: The EU Treaties looks forward to a uniform asylum status valid throughout the UnionThe Commission will launch a broad debate on the next steps in the development of Common European Asylum System, including issues like a common Asylum Code and the mutual recognition of asylum decisions. A longer term reflection towards establishing a single asylum decision process will also be part of the debate, aiming to guarantee equal treatment of asylum seekers throughout Europe.

The improved efficiency and quality of the asylum process should (a) enable MS to quicker distinguish between asylum seekers and other migrants in mixed arrivals, thus optimising labour and administrative resources needed to establish and complete applicable procedures (return, asylum, humanitarian status, extradition etc.); (b) allow the asylum authorities to take robust decisions, based on complete and properly established factual circumstances of the claim, improve the defendability of negative decisions and reduce risk of their annulment by appeal bodies; (c) enable the asylum personnel to better identify cases of unfounded and abusive applications, inclu ...[+++]ding those based on false identity or nationality ; (d) reduce MS' reception costs and support their efforts to remove failed asylum seekers from the territory since quality determinations will be delivered quicker and more cases will result in a final decision already in the first instance.

13. To further explore these assertions two studies on options for processing asylum claims external to the EU were commissioned by the Commission: the Study on the feasibility of processing asylum claims outside the EU against the background of the common European asylum system and the goal of a common asylum procedure (published in March 2003), and the Study on the feasibility of setting up resettlement schemes in EU Member States or at EU level against the background of the Common European Asylum System and the goal of a Common Asylum Procedure

Support for activities in the area of asylum will cover: promoting the establishment and operation of the common European asylum system, leading to a common asylum procedure and a uniform status; facilitating the determination of the state responsible for examining an asylum application; support for the approximation of rules on recognition and content of protection status; promoting the efficiency and fairness of the asylum procedure and increasing convergence in decisions; developing resettlement programmes, entry facilities and legal means for admission into Member States on humanitarian grounds.

-encouraging asylum seekers to retain their documentation (i.a. accelerate asylum procedure when an applicant refuses to show or destroys his documents without a reasonable excuse); -improving ways of dealing with undocumented asylum seekers (i.a. information about the ways and means asylum seekers enter the EU to be taken into account by units responsible for the operation of the Convention); -enhancing speed and quality of information exchange (i.a. setting formal time limits for responding to urgent requests for information); -considering bilateral exchange of the fingerprints of asylum seekers pending entry into force of the Eu ...[+++]rodac Convention; -fingerprinting illegal entrants where national law would allow this and exchanging such information; - ensuring flexible application of Convention criteria and clarifying matters of interpretation; -promoting greater liaison and cooperation among Member States (i.a. more contacts among practitioners of the Convention, possible exchange of liaison officers).