Definition: First instance decision

Category: International Migration and Asylum

Decisions (positive and negative) considering applications for international protection as well as the grants of authorisations to stay for humanitarian reasons, including decisions under priority and accelerated procedures taken by administrative or judicial bodies in Member States. First instance decisions include decisions granted to persons who are a subject of the Dublin Regulation (Council Regulation (EC) No 343/2003). http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/metadata/en/migr_asydec_esms.htm Eurostat, "Technical guidelines to the new asylum templates", February 2008COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 343/2003 of 18 February 2003 establishing the criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an asylum application lodged in one of the Member States by a third-country national