In our current ERF project, the Information and Cooperation Forum (ICF), we accompany the implementation of the EU Council Directive 2003/9/EC of 27 January 2003 on minimum standards of reception conditions for asylum seekers.

Being aware of the inherent possibilities for broad interpretation of the directive, in 2004 we critically analysed the de facto reception conditions for asylum seekers in Germany, Austria, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary.

Read more in the following ICF country reports (revised version from 2007):

[Germany country report engl. pdf]
[Austria country report engl. pdf]
[Hungary country report engl. pdf]
[Slovakia country report engl. pdf]
[Czech Republic country report engl. pdf]
[Slovenia country report engl. pdf]
[Poland country report engl. pdf]

The following organisations contributed to these country reports:

Pro Asyl e.V. (Germany), Asylkoordination Österreich, Asyl in Not (Austria), Halina Niec Human Rights Association (Poland), Polish Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (Poland), Slovak Humanitarian Council (Slovakia), Foundation Gea 2000 (Slovenia), Organisation for Aid to Refugees (OPU) (Czech Republic), Hungarian Helsinki Committee (Hungary), Flüchtlingsrat Brandenburg , Bayerischer Flüchtlingsrat, Sächsischer Flüchtlingsrat e.V., Flüchtlingsrat Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Co-financed by the European Refugee Fund http://europa.eu.int/comm/justice_home/funding/refugee/funding_refugee_de.htm#