Ministry of Migration and Asylum

General Directorate of Information and Communication Technology

196-198 Thivon Av., Ag. Ioannis Rentis, 18233, Athens, Greece

This metadata information is provided by the authorities of Greece to ensure compliance with the requirements of Article 4.4 (Dublin statistics) of the Regulation (EC) 862/2007 on Migration and International Protectionas amended by the Regulation (EU) 2020/851.

As required by Article 9 of the Regulation (EC) 862/2007, Member States must report to Eurostat on the data sources used, the reasons for the selection of these sources and the effects of the selected data on the quality of the statistics. Member States shall provide Eurostat with all the information necessary to evaluate the quality, comparability and completeness of the statistical information.

The reference document used for assessing the compliance of the concepts and definitions in this metadata file is the document Dublin statistics - Eurostat Technical guidelines to Dublin statistics (see Annex).

Dublin statistics contain information based on Article 4.4 of the Regulation (EC) 862/2007 with reference to:

• The number of requests for taking back or taking charge of an asylum seeker or a third-country national.
• The provisions on which the requests for taking back or taking charge are based.
• The decisions taken in response to the requests for taking back or taking charge.
• The number of unilateral decisions taken by Member States to examine the application of an asylum seeker
• The numbers of transfers to which the decisions taken in response to the requests for taking back or taking charge lead.
• The number of requests for information and responses on such requests.

See below.

Migration and international protection – Dublin statistics

See below.

The text of Art.4 of the Regulation (EC) 862/2007 on Migration and international protection refers in general to statistics based on the number of persons and not on the number of applications. However, the article describing the 'Dublin' statistics (Art.4.4) refers to statistics based on the number of requests. Commission services recommend that Art.4.4 (more precisely 4.4.a, 4.4.c and 4.4.d) is interpreted as referring to the number of persons concerned by each request, decision and transfer.

Member States shall examine the application of any third country national who applies for asylum at the border or in their territory of any one of them.
The application shall be examined by a single Member State, which shall be the one which the criteria set out in Chapter III of Council Regulation (EC) 604/2013 indicates is responsible.
Under certain circumstances, each Member State may examine an application for asylum lodged by a third-country national even if such examination is not its responsibility according to the criteria laid down in Council Regulation (EC) 604/2013.
In such cases, this Member State shall become the Member State responsible for the examination of the application.
The Member State conducting a procedure for determining the Member State responsible or the Member State which has been requested to take charge of or to take back the applicant shall inform the Member State previously responsible.

Requests: For the incoming (resp. outgoing) dataset. Requests to take back to take charge of an asylum applicant or requests for information addressed by the Member States (Partner) to the declaring Member State (Geo) (resp. by the declaring Member State (Geo) to the Member States (Partner)).

Total number of requests: Total number of requests to take back and to take charge of an asylum applicant.

Total number of taking charge requests: Total number of taking charge requests
This category is split in three categories based on the Regulation (EC) 604/2013.

Taking charge requests: Family reasons (Art.6, Art.7, Art.8, Art.14): Number of taking charge requests for family reasons. See Regulation (EC) 604/2013 for more details on Art.6,7,8 and 14.

Taking charge requests: Documentation and entry reasons (Art.9, Art.10, Art.11, Art.12):Number of taking charge requests for documentation and entry reasons. See Regulation (EC) 604/2013 for more details on Art.9,10 and 11.

Taking charge requests: Humanitarian reasons (Art.15): Number of taking charge requests for humanitarian reasons. See Regulation (EC) 604/2013 for more details on Art.15.

Total number of taking back requests: Total number of taking back requests
This category is split in four categories based on the Regulation (EC) 604/2013.

Taking back requests: Withdrawal of application during Dublin procedure (Art.4.5):Number of taking back request due to the withdrawal on application during Dublin procedure. Regulation (EC) 604/2013 for more details on Art.4.5.

Taking back requests: Under examination - no permission to stay  (Art.16.1.c):Number of taking back request due to the presence of the asylum applicant in a country without permission to stay when this country differs from the country where his application is under examination. Regulation (EC) 604/2013 for more details on Art.16.1.c.

Taking back requests: Withdrawal - new application  (Art.16.1.d): Number of taking back request due to the withdrawal of an application under examination in a country while lodging a new application in another country. See Regulation (EC) 604/2013 for more details on Art.16.1.d.

Taking back requests: Rejection - no permission to stay  (Art.16.1.e): Number of taking back request due to the withdrawal due to the presence of asylum applicant in a country without permission to stay and whose application has been rejected in the country where his application was examined.

Total EURODAC: Number of incoming (resp. incoming accepted, incoming refused, outgoing, outgoing accepted, outgoing refused) requests based on Eurodac hits.

Taking charge requests based on EURODAC: Number of incoming (resp. incoming accepted, incoming refused, outgoing, outgoing accepted, outgoing refused) taking charge requests based on Eurodac hits.

Taking back requests based EURODAC: Number of incoming (resp. incoming accepted, incoming refused, outgoing, outgoing accepted, outgoing refused) taking back requests based on Eurodac hits.

Total number of pending requests at the end of reference period: Number of requests for take charge and take back addressed by other Member States to which a response is pending at the end of the reference period.

Total number of requests for information: Number of request for information submitted by the Member States (Partner) to the declaring Member State (Geo).

Number of answers to requests for information: Number of request for information provided by the Member States (Partner) to the declaring Member State (Geo).

Greece.

Available data since 2014.

Not applicable.

The unit of measure is the absolute number of persons (number of requests, number of decisions, number of transfers, etc.).

2022 Calendar year.

The compilation of Dublin statistics is based on Article 4.4 of Regulation (EC) 862/2007 of 11 July 2007 which depicts in details the data provisions Member States are bound to supply Eurostat with.

All the Dublin Statistics are produced by the Greek Asylum Service database and mirror the procedures followed in compliance with the Dublin Regulation III.

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Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society.

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Although data periodicity is annual, data is updated following any data revision.

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Data on Dublin Statistics are used for Ministry ad-hoc publications under this portal: http://migration.gov.gr/en/

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Please see the annex "Technical Guidelines on Dublin statistics".

Please refer as well to Article 4.4 of the Regulation (EC) No 862/2007

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See annexes.

The quality of statistical products and processes is ensured by regularly updating our organization database.

All quality requirements are met according to the standard quality criteria and in line with the Technical Guidelines for the data collection of Dublin statistics.

Good quality

• Good quality (extensive quality) - all quality requirements are met according to the standard quality criteria and in line with the Technical Guidelines for the data collection of Dublin statistics (Annex).
• Sufficient quality (acceptable quality) - minimum quality requirements are met: minor issues exist which need to be improved.
• Poor quality (inadequate quality) - the data do not meet the minimum quality requirements: important/many issues exist which affect the quality of the data and which need to be solved.

The statistics collected under Regulation (EC) 862/2007  are used by a wide range of users at national, European and International level to cover various usersʼ needs.

Users of Dublin statistics:

• various policy DGs in the European Commission, like DG Migration and Home Affairs and European Union Asylum Agency for designing, funding and implementing asylum related policies in the EU
• European Parliament
• national authorities (Ministries of Interior, Ministries of Justice, Migration agencies) that use Dublin and Asylum data to monitor or develop their national asylum procedures
• European Migration Network (EMN) that uses the data as a basis for its annual EU- and national-level statistical and analytical reports
• researchers and students conducting analysis and research in the field of asylum
• journalists and international organisations in the area of asylum and migration

Unmet user needs (on statistics) and reasons why these needs cannot be satisfied (at national and international level) : Unknown

Unknown.

All the data requested are available.

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Completeness is the extent to which all requested Dublin statistics are provided to Eurostat, according to the data provisions foreseen by Articles 4.4. of Regulation (EC) 862/2007 (as amended by Regulation (EU) 2020/851) and by the Technical Guidelines for Dublin statistics (Annex).

• Complete - The statistics are complete: the dataset and all requested breakdowns are available, as foreseen by Regulation (EC) 862/2007 (as amended by Regulation (EU) 2020/851)and the Technical Guidelines for the data collection of Dublin statistics (Annex)
• Incomplete - The statistics are incomplete: the dataset is available but some of the requested breakdowns are not available, as foreseen by Regulation (EC) 862/2007 (as amended by Regulation (EU) 2020/851) and the Technical Guidelines for the data collection of Dublin statistics (Annex)
• Not available - The statistics are not available: the dataset is not available, that is all the requested breakdowns are missing, as foreseen by Regulation (EC) 862/2007 (as amended by Regulation (EU) 2020/851) and the Technical Guidelines for the data collection of Dublin statistics (Annex)
• Not applicable - The statistics are Not applicable: the concept/process is not used or it does not exist in the country

High accuracy.

Accuracy is the closeness of the data to the exact or true values that the statistics were intended to measure. Reliability is the closeness of the initial provided value to the subsequent (revised) value.

Assessment of the accuracy of the national Dublin statistics, at dataset level

• High = 100 % accuracy. The reported statistics measure accurately the target population, as foreseen by Regulation (EC) 862/2007 (as amended by Regulation (EU) 2020/851) and as defined in the Technical Guidelines for Dublin statistics (Annex)
• Good = 95 - 99 % accuracy. The reported statistics do not cover accurately the target population and a small part of the targeted population is missing, or a small part of non-targeted (erroneous) population is included in the reported statistics; the bias/error in the reported statistics is expected to be small
• Low = 80 - 94 % accuracy. The reported statistics do not cover accurately the target population and a large part of the targeted population is missing, or a large part of non-targeted (erroneous) population is included in the reported statistics; the bias/error in the reported statistics is expected to be large
• Very low = less than 80 % accuracy. The reported statistics do not cover accurately the target population and a very large part of the targeted population is missing, or a very large part of non-targeted (erroneous) population is included in the reported statistics; the bias/error in the reported statistics is expected to be very large

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See below.

See the file ‘Proportion of units (persons) reported in the statistics that do not belong to the target populationʼ in annex.

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See concept 13.3.4 Processing Error.

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See below concepts 14.1.1 and 14.1.2.

- Number of days (on average) after the end of the reference period at which the country is able to report the first/preliminary data, at the earliest:

One month after the end of the reference period.

 - Reasons for possible long production of the first/preliminary data and plans to improve the situation : No available information.

- Number of days (on average) after the end of the reference period at which the country is able to report the final data, at the earliest : 

On average, the earliest we can report final data is 70 days after the end of the reporting period.

- Reasons for possible long production of the final data and plans to improve the situation : No available information.

The punctuality of the data is overall good.

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According to the guidelines, Dublin statistics refer to individuals.

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Assessment of possible sources of lack of comparability between countries, due to discrepancies from Eurostat concepts, definitions or due to differences in methods.

Dublin data is comparable over the years.

Since 2014 - onwards.

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Data are revised on a continuous basis according to the most recently updated data provided by other countries.

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Data are revised on a continuous basis according to the most recently updated data provided by other countries.

When we receive new information from another Member State about changes to data we have already created, we proceed to update it.

We check the data periodically, taking into account any new information that has been given to us, and proceed to revise the statistical data.

The size of revision gives an idea of the stability of the data while direction is important to understand whether preliminary data tend to overestimate or underestimate the real target population.

We are unable to provide a specific number of revisions in a period of time. However, a possible average of revisions could be at least ten revisions per year.

Greece Asylum Service Database (Administrative source).

The collection of information/data for the production of Dublin statistics is done on a monthly basis by the Greece Asylum Service Database.

The information for Dublin Statistics is collected from the Greece Asylum Service Database in Excel format which is processed in order to produce the required datasets.

The Dublin data is entered through a management application into the Hellenic Asylum Service Database by the service's employees.

Data reports are drawn from it on a monthly basis in excel format and processed according to the given set of rules to produce the final reports in order to satisfy all possible statistics requests.

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