Denmark: Reassessment of Dublin Transfers to Hungary by the Danish Immigration Service

Date: 
Thursday, June 2, 2016
On the 2nd of June 2016, the Danish Refugee Appeals Board, the appeal instance for Dublin transfer cases, decided that all cases concerning Dublin transfers to Hungary (around 300 cases) should be referred back to the Danish Immigration Service, the first instance for accessing Dublin cases. In short, the Appeals Board held that since October 2015 it had received substantial new information about the situation for asylum seekers in Hungary. The Danish Immigration Service should therefore reassess these cases accordingly. In October 2015, the Appeals Board had previously suspended all Dublin transfers to Hungary in order to properly investigate the reception of asylum seekers in Hungary.

The ELENA Weekly Legal Update would like to thank Dorte Smed, ELENA national coordinator for Denmark, for bringing this to our attention.


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Keywords: 
Dublin Transfer
Material reception conditions
Reception conditions