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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8404
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/asylum

Council approves Dublin II regulation sharing responsibility for examining asylum applications between member states

Brussels, 19/02/2003 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday the Council definitively approved new rules determining which member state is responsible for processing an asylum application made to the European Union. The "Dublin II" regulation, which had already met with the member states' approval at the beginning of December, will replace the Dublin Convention, with additional criteria to determine whether the state responsible is the one by which the person entered, the one in which they remained, or...

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