09/11/2007 (Agence Europe) - At a public hearing on the future common European asylum system, which took place in Brussels on 7 November, the European Commission announced the timetable for a raft of measures it intends to take to create the common European asylum system. By the end of 2007, the Commission intends to amend two directives, one on minimum standards concerning the procedures for granting and withdrawing refugee status in the member states and the other on qualification, i.e....