Translation of "Base de données du continuum des demandeurs d'asile " (French → English) :

Secondly, information on which basis – according to the applicant – normal values should have been established was only partly available, since the necessary information from the US companies, i.e. SGA and profit, was only available on a yearly basis.

Together with the Qualification Directive and the extension of the scope of the Directive on the Long Term Residence Status to beneficiaries of international protection, the common asylum system should provide for (a) the fair treatment of and appropriate guarantees for asylum seekers and beneficiaries of international protection; (b) procedural devices that will help national authorities to properly and quickly assess asylum claims, in a more convergent way and with tools to deal with abusive claims; (c) the appropriate level of approximation of rights for beneficiaries of international protection which will contribute to cost savings ...[+++] in administrative processes and to limiting secondary movements and asylum shopping, while at the same time improving integration prospects; (d) the improvement of the efficiency of the 'Dublin system', while catering for situations of exceptional pressures which may be faced by individual Member States; and (e) a EURODAC database which continues to support the efficiency of the Dublin Regulation, whilst also meeting other needs of law enforcement authorities but under very strict conditions.

This would take place within the framework of the new asylum developments resulting from the Regulation for determining the state responsible for examining asylum claims (Dublin II) and from Eurodac, the database which checks asylum seekers' fingerprints and has been operational since 15 January 2003.

They can also take the fingerprints of aliens found illegally staying on their territory in order to check whether they have applied for asylum (on their territory or that of another Member State). They have to send these data promptly to the EURODAC Central Unit, managed by the Commission, which will register them in the Central database and compare them with already stored data. Such comparison can produce "hits", when the data introduced match with already stored data. Where hits reveal that an asylum seeker has already applied for ...[+++] asylum or that she/he entered the territory irregularly in another Member State, the Member States together can act in accordance with the Dublin Regulation.

They can also take the fingerprints of aliens found illegally staying on their territory in order to check whether they have applied for asylum (on their territory or that of another Member State). They have to send these data promptly to the EURODAC Central Unit, managed by the Commission, which will register them in the Central database and compare them with already stored data. Such comparison can produce "hits", when the data introduced match with already stored data. Where hits reveal that an asylum seeker has already applied for ...[+++] asylum or that she/he entered the territory irregularly in another Member State, the Member States together can act in accordance with the Dublin Regulation.

AWARE of the need, in pursuit of this objective, to take measures to avoid any situations arising, with the result that applicants for asylum are left in doubt for too long as regards the likely outcome of their applications and concerned to provide all applicants for asylum with a guarantee that their applications will be examined by one of the Member States and to ensure that applicants for asylum are not referred successively from one Member State to another without any of these States acknowledging itself to be competent to examin ...[+++]e the application for asylum;