§ Ms Janet AndersonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the European Union resolutions, to which he has been a signatory, relating to harmonisation of asylum policy among European Union member states. [1672]
§ Miss WiddecombeThe following measure relating to the harmonisation of asylum policy has been adopted by the Council in accordance with the procedures established by the intergovernmental chapter—title VI—of the treaty on European Union:
- Resolution on minimum guarantees for asylum seekers.
- Additionally the following resolutions were adopted by Immigration Ministers under the ad hoc arrangements which existed before the structures created under title VI:
- Resolution on a harmonised approach to questions concerning host third countries;
- Resolution on manifestly unfounded applications for asylum;
- Resolution on certain common guidelines as regards the admission of particularly vulnerable groups from the former Yugoslavia.
Immigration Ministers also agreed the following additional measures:
- Convention determining the state responsible for examining applications for asylum lodged in one of the member states of the European Community ("Dublin Convention");
- Decision setting up CIREA—Centre of Information Discussion and Exchange on Asylum;
- Conclusions concerning countries where there is generally no serious risk of persecution.