authorized program facility

authorized program facility | APF

fulfilment of the following security functions: identification and authentication, authorisation, confidentiality, accountability, integrity, audit, accuracy and reliability of service.

* To secure authentication of authorised users, use of smart cards, biometric identification, electronic signatures, role-based technologies, etc.

Improve the coordination among all the services and authorities involved in the return process in each Member State by June 2017 to ensure that all skills and expertise required are available for effective returns while respecting the rights of the returnees; Remove inefficiencies by shortening deadlines for appeals, systematically issuing return decisions that do not have an expiry date and combining decisions on the ending of a legal stay with the issuance of a return decision to avoid duplicate work; Tackle abuses of the system by making use of the possibility to assess asylum claims in accelerated or, where considered appropriate, ...[+++]border procedures when it is suspected asylum claims are made merely to delay the enforcement of a return decision; Prevent absconding by detaining people who have received a return decision and who show signs they will not comply such as refusal to cooperate in the identification process or opposing a return operation violently or fraudulently; Increase the effectiveness of return procedures and decisions by only granting voluntary departure if necessary and if a request is made and giving the shortest possible periods for voluntary departure, taking into account individual circumstances; Set up operational assisted voluntary return programmes by 1 June 2017 and ensure proper dissemination of information on voluntary return and assisted voluntary return and reintegration programmes.

fulfilment of the following security functions: identification and authentication, authorisation, confidentiality, accountability, integrity, audit, accuracy and reliability of service;