Memo: Report on the evaluation of the Dublin system

The Commission has adopted a report on the evaluation of the Dublin system, which aims to determine which Member State is responsible for the examination of an asylum application lodged by a third-country national on the territory of one of the Member States, Norway or Iceland. Overall the system has been functioning generally well since 2003. Between September 2003 and December 2005, around 17,000 third-country nationals have been transferred from one Member State to another in view of having their asylum claim examined. At the same time, EURODAC has detected that around 12% of the asylum applications were in fact lodged by persons who already applied for asylum before.