Brussels, 04/01/2001 (Agence Europe) - Through the written procedure, in December, the EU Council adopted the Eurodac regulation on the comparison of fingerprints of asylum-seekers and certain other foreigners, regulation that aims to improve the functioning of the Dublin Convention, which took effect in September 1997, on determining which Member State is responsible for examining a request for asylum.
Eurodac will be a centralised database placed at the Commission's disposal and to which...