Publications
Quality Assurance Tool: Examining the application - Assessment Form: Personal Interview
Quality Assurance Tool: Examining the application - Assessment Form: First-instance Decision
This tool provide EU+ countries with a common framework for internal quality assessment and assurance of applications for international protection in the context of the first instance decision.
Practical Guide: Qualification for international protection
This practical guide intends to assist case officers and decision-makers in the examination of applications for international protection and application of the legal criteria on who qualifies for international protection, referring to both refugee status and subsidiary protection.
Practical guide: Qualification for international protection - Flowchart poster for practitioners
This practical guide intends to assist case officers and decision-makers in the examination of applications for international protection and application of the legal criteria on who qualifies for international protection, referring to both refugee status and subsidiary protection.
Practical Guide: Exclusion
This practical guide is intended to assist in the detection and examination of potential exclusion cases.
Practical guide: Evidence assessment
This guide is designed in a similar way to the Practical guide: Personal interview. It is intended to provide support for the daily work of case officers and addresses the challenging tasks related to evidence assessment: gathering information, credibility assessment, risk assessment.
Practical Guide: Personal interview
Being the first practical tool developed within the Agency Quality Matrix process, this practical guide is designed to assist case officers across the EU and beyond in their daily work by providing a practical checklist and brief guidance in five stages relating to the conduct of the personal int