Dublin Regulation

The Dublin Convention ( DÜ) is an international agreement on the definition of State responsible for examining an lodged in a Member State of the European Community and other European countries asylum application.

On the one hand is to be achieved, that any alien who submits an application for asylum on the territory of the Parties to the DÜ that an asylum procedure is guaranteed. On the other hand, it should also be prevented that the applicant can operate more than one method in the territory of the Member States. The Eurodac system, which is a European automated system for comparing the fingerprints of asylum seekers is used for the exchange of information necessary. Important rule for jurisdiction: The State to which the applicant has proven entered first, the asylum procedure must perform.

Connected with the implementation of DÜ is also the exchange of staff with the asylum authorities of individual States Parties. The aim of using this " liaison personnel " is to know the organization processes of national asylum procedures mutually to use the possibilities of mutual support, to promote mutual understanding and to facilitate the collaboration.

The Dublin Convention was signed by the then twelve EC Member States on 15 June 1990. It entered into force on 1 September 1997. The Dublin Convention has since been replaced within the European Union by the Dublin II Regulation and recently the Dublin III Regulation.