ii. The Institutional and Legal Framework for European Refugee Protection

  Main Debates What are the Objectives of EU Involvement in Asylum Law? Does It Aim at Human Rights Protection, Application of Asylum in the Context of EU Internal Market, or Establishment of Fortress Europe?   Main Points Human Rights and the EU Institutional Actors and their Powers and Roles Evolving Roles of the Different EU Institutions in EU Asylum Law- and Policy-making     EU Instruments Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 2003/109/EC to extend its scope to beneficiaries of international protection, COM (2007) 298, 6 June 2007.Draft Treaty amending the Treaty on the European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Community, CIG 1/07 and CIG 1/07 COR 1, 23 July 2007.Treaty Establishing the European Community (1957), OJ C 325/33, 24 December 2002, Title IV, Arts. 61–68.Protocol on Asylum for Nationals and Member States of the EU, OJ C 340/103, 10 November 1997.Acquis of the European Union under Title IV of the TEC and title VI of the TEU. Consolidated version 2007.Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU, OJ C 364/1, 18 December 2000, Arts. 18, 19.Draft Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe, (2004), OJ 2004 C 310, 25 June 2004, Title I, Arts. 1–9.Draft Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe, (2004), OJ 2004 C 310, 25 June 2004, Title III, Arts. III-266–III-268.     Readings Core H. Battjes,‘The Working of international asylum in European law’, in H. Battjes, European Asylum Law and International Law (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2006), Chapter 2.I. Boccardi, ‘After Amsterdam: Towards an EU Asylum Policy?’, in I. Boccardi, Europe and Refugees – Towards an EU Asylum Policy (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002), Chapter 6.S. Peers, ‘The Institutional Framework for EC Immigration and Asylum Law’, in Peers and Rogers, EU Immigration and Asylum Law, (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2006), pp. 19–47.