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8 September 2010
An important part of the work towards a Common European Asylum System is the Asylum Procedures Directive. It is designed to establish minimum standards for fair and efficient procedures for granting and withdrawing refugee status. This week, the European Commission report on the application of the directive was presented. It shows that procedural guarantees still vary considerably across the EU.
"There are still significant divergences among national asylum procedures and present rules fall short in preventing administrative errors: I call on the European Parliament and the Council to adopt the amendments that the Commission proposed in 2009 to remedy this situation", said European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström.
The Commission report will serve as a background to the discussions at the ministerial EU conference on asylum that will be held in Brussels on 13-14 September, where Cecilia Malmström will take part.
Read more on the report in the press release and read the report 
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in full.
