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| The amended Commission proposal to review the Reception Conditions Directive reduces safeguards for asylum seekers, ECRE highlights |
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ECRE published its comments on the amended Commission proposal to recast the Reception Conditions Directive (RCD) on 29 September. ECRE regrets the reduction of safeguards for asylum seekers with regard to adequate reception conditions in a number of key provisions, and the increase of flexibility for Member States to derogate from the guarantees which the proposal is supposed to set in order to respect the human rights of the applicants. ECRE considers that the standards proposed in the amended recast proposal provide little added value to the existing standards in the Reception Conditions Directive. As with the amended proposal recasting the Asylum Procedures Directive (APD), it appears that the initial ambition to establish for high standards of reception conditions while ensuring a sufficiently high level of harmonisation has been seriously lowered. ECRE is concerned about the dilution of the standards set out in the 2008 Commission proposal. In particular, the current proposal no longer prohibits the detention of unaccompanied children and Member States would be allowed to refuse access to the labour market for asylum seekers beyond 6 months after making an application for international protection. ECRE Comments are available here: http://www.ecre.org/component/content/article/57-policy-papers/253-ecre-comments-and-recommendations-on-the-amended-commission-proposal-to-recast-the-reception-conditions-directive-com2011-320-final.html? From: www.ecre.org |
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