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Acronyms and abbreviations

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Acronyms and abbreviations

AIDA Asylum Information Database
AMIF Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund
ARC Asylum Research Centre 
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)
CALL Council for Alien Law Litigation (Belgium)
CARE Cohesion’s Action for Refugees in Europe
CCAC Closed Controlled Access Centres (Greece)
CDCJ Council of Europe’s Committee on Legal Co-operation
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
EASO European Asylum Support Office
ECDC European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
ECRE European Council on Refugees and Exiles
ECHR European Charter of Human Rights
ECtHR European Court of Human Rights
EMAS AMIF Emergency Assistance grant scheme
EMN European Migration Network
ENNHRI European Network of National Human Rights Institutions
ENS  European Network on Statelessness
EPS EUAA’s Early Warning and Preparedness System
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)
FAR Frontex Application for Return
FGM/C Female genital mutilation/cutting
FRA European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
FRAC Finnish Refugee Advice Centre
Frontex European Border and Coast Guard Agency
FSWG Frontex Scrutiny Working Group
GDP Gross domestic product
GRETA Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings
ICMPD International Centre for Migration Policy Development
IDS Information and Documentation System
IGAD Intergovernmental Authority on Development
IND Immigration and Naturalisation Service (Netherlands)
IOM International Organization for Migration
IPA International Protection Agency (Malta)
JHA Justice and Home Affairs
LGBTIQ Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-gender, intersex and queer
LIBE Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
MFF Multiannual Financial Framework
MIRPS Comprehensive Regional Framework for Protection and Solutions
NGO Non-governmental organisation
OAU Organization of African Unity
OFII Office for 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)
OLAF European Anti-Fraud Office
OPU Organization for Aid to Refugees (Czechia)
RIC Reception and Identification Centre (Greece)
RIS Reception and Identification Service (Greece)
SAI System for Reception and Integration (Italy)
SOGICA Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Claims of Asylum project
SOGIESC Sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and sex characteristics
SSAR Support Platform for the Solutions Strategy for Afghan Refugees
TRIPS Identification of Trafficked International Protection Beneficiaries’ Special Needs project
UDI Directorate for Immigration (Norway)
UN CAT UN Committee Against Torture
UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
UNRWA United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
WHO World Health Organization