Common European Asylum System in a Changing World

in article 18. Article 18 letter a) concerns “take back situations” – those are situations where the foreigner already applied for international protection in the first Member State. Take back situations are covered in article 18 letters b) to d) and they concern situations where a person has applied for international protection in a second Member State but the responsible Member State can be determined on the basis of other criteria such as issuance of visa – and not on the basis of asylum application.

Hint: see Article 18 Answer: The most visible differentiation between take back and take charge situations is

EXERCISE 2: Crossword

1. The main aim of the Dublin Regulation is to determine the Member State …… 2. Other important aim is to prevent two negative phenomenons – asylum …… and 3 …… in orbit 4. A transfer to responsible Member States is forbidden when systemic …… exist in that Member State 5. ……… clauses are derogations from the hierarchy of criteria 6. The first criterion is the criterion of ……… 7. Detention for the purpose of transfer is possible in case there is a risk of ……… 8. In case of minors attention shall be given to the principle of ……… of the child.

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