Common European Asylum System in a Changing World

it sets up rules regarding medical examinations as well as applicants in need of special procedural guarantees and guarantees for unaccompanied minors. • 2013 Reception Conditions Directive (recast)

The Reception Conditions Directive (2013/33) aims to ensure the equal treatment of applicants throughout the Union with a view to limit the secondary movements of applicants influenced by the diversity of conditions for their reception. It applies during all stages and types of procedures concerning applications for international protection, in all locations and facilities hosting applicants and for as long as they are allowed to remain in the territory of the Member States as applicants. Within three days of the date on which the application for international protection is lodged, the Member State shall issue to the applicant in their name a document certifying their status as an applicant or the fact that they are authorized to reside in the territory of the Member State for the duration of their application. This document does not have to confirm the identity of the applicant. If the applicant is not free to move within all or a part of the territory of the Member State, the document shall also certify that fact. The Directive establishes a series of rights for an applicant for international protection. The most important is the right of movement in the territory of the Member State where the application was made. In justified cases, the Member State may detain applicants. It may do so only if the purpose of detention cannot be achieved by any other, less lenient means. In particular, the applicant may be detained for the purpose of establishing or verifying their identity or nationality, in order to determine those facts on which their application for international protection is based and which would not be obtainable without detention of the applicant, in particular in the event of the applicant absconding. In addition, it is possible to detain an applicant if appropriate proceedings are under way to decide on the applicant’s right of entry into the territory or if the applicant is being detained under a return procedure under the relevant Directive in order to prepare for recovery or removal. • 2001 Temporary Protection Directive

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