Translation of "demandeur d'asile débouté " (French → English) :

The improved efficiency and quality of the asylum process should (a) enable MS to quicker distinguish between asylum seekers and other migrants in mixed arrivals, thus optimising labour and administrative resources needed to establish and complete applicable procedures (return, asylum, humanitarian status, extradition etc.); (b) allow the asylum authorities to take robust decisions, based on complete and properly established factual circumstances of the claim, improve the defendability of negative decisions and reduce risk of their annulment by appeal bodies; (c) enable the asylum personnel to better identify cases of unfounded and abusive applications, inclu ...[+++]ding those based on false identity or nationality ; (d) reduce MS' reception costs and support their efforts to remove failed asylum seekers from the territory since quality determinations will be delivered quicker and more cases will result in a final decision already in the first instance.

In conclusion, on the issue of fast process, I'll just simply make three points: allow for modestly longer time limits, to give claimants a fair and reasonable opportunity to prove their claims; allow an appeal to every claimant to catch the mistakes that are inevitable, especially with a faster claim process; and have prompt removals of failed claimants.

As you know, Bill C-11 proposes to reform our asylum system by giving faster protection to asylum claimants who truly need it, reducing the abuse of our system, and providing for faster removal of failed claimants.

In line with the relevant Treaty provision (Article 63(2)(b) of the EC Treaty), the aim of the proposal establishing the ERF for 2005-2010 is to express financial solidarity between the Community and the Member States in the reception of asylum-seekers and the management of asylum procedures, the integration of persons enjoying international protection in the EU and actions to promote the voluntary return of persons enjoying protection or asylum-seekers whose applications are rejected even though the new Community asylum legislation and enlargement will engender major structural changes.

Depending on the official status of the asylum seekers, assistance may be provided for new ways of helping them enter the labour market or for training for unsuccessful asylum-seekers prior to their leaving the EU.

For example, while we know the numbers of people who are detained and the average length of detention, which is not terribly long at around 20 days, we don't know, for the most part, and can't differentiate in those statistics at present whether those people are asylum seekers, whether they're failed refugee claimants, whether they're people slated for removal from the country, and, if they're slated for removal, which category they're being removed under.