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Amnesty’s comments on directive laying down minimum standards reception …
30/04/2009 – In December 2008, the Commission presented three new legislative proposals in the field of asylum. These are the first of a series of no less than 7 new proposals that are expected in this field by the end of 2009. With the publication of the proposals the Commission has officially started the so-called second phase of harmonization in the field of asylum in order to attain a coherent, comprehensive and integrated Common European Asylum System (CEAS), which according to the 2004 Hague Programme should be completed by 2010, a deadline which has de facto been postponed to 2012 by the Head of States and Government in the European Pact on Immigration and Asylum adopted on 16 October 2008.
