Council of the European Union laying down minimum standards on the reception of applicants for asylum in Member States

Council of the European Union laying down minimum standards on the reception of applicants for asylum in Member States

Description: "With this proposal for a Directive, the Commission is pursuing the following aims:

1. Implementing point (1)(b) of the first paragraph of Article 63 of the Treaty,
paragraph 36(b)(V) of the Vienna Action Plan, Conclusion 14 of the Tampere
European Council and the second part of the paragraph on a fair and efficient asylum
procedure of the Scoreboard presented to the Council and the Parliament in March 2000;

2. Setting out the minimum standards of reception conditions for applicants for asylum in
the European Union, normally sufficient to ensure them a dignified standard of living;

3. Identifying the different reception conditions available to applicants for asylum at the
various stages or types of asylum procedures as well as for groups with special needs
including minors, and cases for their exclusion, reduction and review;

4. Outlining the possible actions to improve the efficiency of the national reception systems;

5. Limiting secondary movements of applicants for asylum influenced solely by the
diversity of the applicable rules on reception conditions;

6. Ensuring that applicants for asylum are afforded comparable living conditions in all
Member States as, according to the Dublin Convention, they do not have the right to
choose the Member State that should examine their application."

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