iii. Minimum Standards for Reception Conditions

  Main Debates Has the EU Set an Adequate Standard for Reception Conditions?Main PointsPurposes of EU Power over Reception ConditionsObjectives of Directive 2003/9Level of Obligations in DirectiveExceptions from ObligationsApplication of the directive to particular groups: asylum seekers in detention;those under Dublin IIUNHCR Documents‘UNHCR Annotated Comments on Council Directive 2003/9/EC of 27 January 2003, Laying Down Minimum Standards for the Reception of Asylum Seekers’, July 2003.ReadingsCoreE. Guild, ‘Seeking asylum: storm clouds between international commitments and EU legislative measures’, European Law Review, vol. 29, no. 2 (2004), pp. 198–218.N. Rogers, ‘Minimum Standards for Reception’, European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 4, no. 2 (2002), pp. 215–230.

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Section I Introduction to International Refugee Law: Background and Context


Section II International Framework for Refugee Protection


Section III European Framework for Refugee Protection


Section IV UNHCR and Other Actors Relevant to International Asylum Law




iii. Minimum Standards for Reception Conditions

 

Main Debates

Has the EU Set an Adequate Standard for Reception Conditions?

Main Points
Purposes of EU Power over Reception Conditions
Objectives of Directive 2003/9
Level of Obligations in Directive
Exceptions from Obligations
Application of the directive to particular groups: asylum seekers in detention;
those under Dublin II

UNHCR Documents
‘UNHCR Annotated Comments on Council Directive 2003/9/EC of 27 January 2003, Laying Down Minimum Standards for the Reception of Asylum Seekers’, July 2003.

Readings
Core
E. Guild, ‘Seeking asylum: storm clouds between international commitments and EU legislative measures’, European Law Review, vol. 29, no. 2 (2004), pp. 198–218.

N. Rogers, ‘Minimum Standards for Reception’, European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 4, no. 2 (2002), pp. 215–230.



UNHCR Documents

Laying Down Minimum Standards for the Reception of Asylum Seekers

‘UNHCR Annotated Comments on Council Directive 2003/9/EC of 27 January 2003, Laying Down Minimum Standards for the Reception of Asylum Seekers’, July 2003.

Readings

Core

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Seeking asylum: storm clouds between international commitments and EU legislative measures

E. Guild, 'Seeking asylum: storm clouds between international commitments and EU legislative measures' (2004) 29 European Law Review, 198–218.
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Minimum Standards for Reception

N. Rogers, 'Minimum Standards for Reception' (2002) 4 European Journal of Migration and Law 215-230.

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