Setting up a Common European Asylum System: Report on the application of existing instruments and proposals for the new system

Firstly, the study assesses the evaluation process of the first generation of asylum instruments, while outlining the possibilities for improving it. Secondly, it analyses the asylum 'acquis' regarding the distribution of refugees between Member States, the eligibility for protection, the status of protected persons regarding detention and vulnerability, asylum procedures and the external dimension, by formulating short-term recommendations for each area. The last part is devoted to the long term evolution of the Common European Asylum System with regard to the legal context including the accession of the EU to the Geneva Convention, the institutional perspectives including the new European Support Office, the jurisdictional perspective, the substantive perspective, the distributive perspective and the external perspective.

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