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Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Dublin Regulation

The Dublin Regulation is a European Union(EU) Law that determines the EU Member State responsible to examine an application for Asylum Seekers seeking International Protection under the Geneva Convention and the EU Qualification Directive, within the European Union(EU)

It is the cornerstone of the Dublin System, which consists of the Dublin Regulation and the EURODAC Regulation, which establishes a Europe-wide fingerprinting database for unauthorized entrants to the EU.

The Dublin Regulation aims to “determine rapidly the Member State responsible [for an asylum claim]” and provides for the transfer of an asylum seeker to that Member State. Usually, the responsible Member State will be the state through which the asylum seeker first entered the EU.

One of the principal aims of the Dublin Regulation is to prevent an applicant from submitting applications in multiple Member States. Another aim is to reduce the number of "orbiting" asylum seekers, who are shuttled from member state to member state.

The Dublin regime was originally established by the Dublin Convention, which was signed in Dublin, Ireland on 15 June 1990, and first came into force on 1 September 1997 for the first12 signatories -Belgium,Denmark,France,Germany,Greece,Ireland,Italy,Luxembourg,Netherlands,Portugal,spain and UK, on 1 October 1997 for Austria and Sweden  and on 1 January 1998 for Finland

While the convention was only open to accession by member states of the European Communities,Norway and Iceland, non-member states, concluded agreements with the EC to apply the provisions of the Convention in their territories

The Dublin II Regulation was adopted in 2003, replacing the Dublin Convention in all EU member states except Denmark, which has an opt-out from implementing regulations under the area of freedom,security and justice
An agreement with Denmark on extending the application of the Regulation to Denmark came into force in 2006

On December 03,2008, the European Commission proposed amendments to the Dublin Regulation, creating an opportunity for reform of the Dublin System.

The Dublin III Regulation (No. 604/2013) was approved in June 2013, replacing the Dublin II Regulation, and applies to all member states except Denmark

It came into force on 19 July 2013.

It is based on the same principle on the previous two i.e. that the first Member State where finger prints are stored or an asylum claim is lodged is responsible for a person's asylum claim


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