Transposition of the Asylum Procedures Directive
3rd December 2007
The Asylum Procedures Directive (Council Directive 2005/85/EC of 1 December 2005, on minimum standards on procedures in Member States for granting and withdrawing refugee status) is one of the four building blocks of the first stage of the Common European Asylum System.
The other main asylum instruments are Regulation (EC) 343/2003 (”Dublin Regulation”), Directive 2003/9/EC (”Reception Conditions Directive,”) and Directive 2004/83/EC (”Qualification Directive”).
These legislative instruments guarantee a minimum level of protection and procedural safeguards in all Member States for those who are genuinely in need of international protection, whilst preventing abuses of asylum applications which undermine the credibility of the system and place additional administrative and financial burden on member States. These four instruments aim at a common objective – to level the asylum playing field and lay the foundations for a Common European Asylum System in line with the objectives set at the Tampere European Council.