| AIDA |
Asylum Information Database |
| AMIF |
Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund |
| ASGI |
Association for Juridical Studies on Immigration (Italy) |
| AWAS |
Agency for the Welfare of Asylum Seekers |
| BAMF |
Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Germany) |
| BBU |
Federal Agency for Reception and Support Services (Austria) |
| BMS |
Bilateral Mentoring Scheme |
| BVwG |
Federal Administrative Court (Austria) |
| CALL |
Council for Alien Law Litigation (Belgium) |
| CCAC |
Closed Controlled Access Centres (Greece) |
| CCBE |
Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe |
| CEAS |
Common European Asylum System |
| CGRS |
Office of the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons (Belgium) |
| CJEU |
Court of Justice of the EU |
| CNDA |
National Court of Asylum (France) |
| COA |
Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (Centraal Orgaan opvang asielzoekers) (Netherlands) |
| COI |
Country of origin information |
| CPT |
Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture |
| CRA |
administrative detention centre (France) |
| DT&V |
Repatriation and Departure Service (Netherlands) |
| EASO |
European Asylum Support Office |
| ECRE |
European Council on Refugees and Exiles |
| ECHR |
European Charter of Human Rights |
| ECtHR |
European Court of Human Rights |
| EEAS |
European External Action Service |
| EIGE |
European Institute for Gender Equality |
| EMN |
European Migration Network |
| ENS |
European Network on Statelessness |
| EPS |
EUAA’s Early Warning and Preparedness System |
| ESTIA |
Emergency Support to Integration and Accommodation |
| EU+ |
European Union Member States, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland |
| EUAA |
European Union Agency for Asylum |
| eu-LISA |
European Union Agency for the Operational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice |
| FAC |
Federal Administrative Court (Switzerland) |
| FGM/C |
Female genital mutilation/cutting |
| FRA |
European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights |
| Frontex |
European Border and Coast Guard Agency |
| GDP |
gross domestic product |
| GRETA |
Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings |
| GUDA |
single desks at the prefectures (France) |
| IBC |
illegal border-crossing |
| ICAM |
Individual Case Management |
| ICMPD |
International Centre for Migration Policy Development |
| IDS |
Information and Documentation System |
| IND |
Immigration and Naturalisation Service (Netherlands) |
| IPAC |
Administrative Court for International Protection (Cyprus) |
| IPAT |
International Protection Appeals Tribunal (Ireland) |
| IPO |
International Protection Office (Ireland) |
| IOM |
International Organization for Migration |
| JHA |
Justice and Home Affairs |
| LGBTIQ |
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-gender, intersex and queer |
| MENA |
Middle East and North Africa |
| MIPROF |
Interdepartmental Mission on Human Trafficking |
| MOCADEM |
Operational Coordination Mechanism for the External Dimension of Migration |
| NDICI |
Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument |
| NGO |
Non-governmental organisation |
| NHRI |
National Human Rights Institution |
| NOAS |
Norwegian Organisation of Asylum Seekers |
| OFII |
Office of Immigration and Integration (Office Français de l’Immigration et de l’Intégration) (France) |
| OFPRA |
Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (Office Français de Protection des Réfugiés et Apatrides) (France) |
| OPU |
Organization for Aid to Refugees (Czechia) |
| PBGB |
Police and Border Guard Board (Estonia) |
| PIC |
Legal-Informational Centre for NGOs (Slovenia) |
| PKK |
Kurdistan Workers' Party |
| PMM |
Presidency for Migration Management |
| PTSD |
post-traumatic stress disorder |
| OPU |
Organization for Aid to Refugees (Czechia) |
| QD |
Qualification Directive (recast) |
| RAO |
Regional Asylum Office (Greece) |
| RIC |
Reception and Identification Centre (Greece) |
| SAR |
search and rescue |
| SEF |
Immigration and Border Service (Portugal) |
| SEM |
State Secretariat for Migration (Switzerland) |
| SMA |
Swedish Migration Agency (Sweden) |
| SOGIESC |
Sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and sex characteristics |
| UCPM |
Union Civil Protection Mechanism |
| UDI |
Directorate for Immigration (Norway) |
| UNCAT |
UN Committee Against Torture |
| UNCRC |
United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child |
| UNHCR |
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |
| UNHRC |
UN Human Rights Committee |
| UNICEF |
United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund |
| UNRWA |
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East |
| WHO |
World Health Organization |
