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• ILPA Response to the Hague Programme : EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy

  20 December 2004
  At the outset, it is important to point out that some general issues have been left out of the Hague Programme altogether. There is no reference to the importance of legal aid to ensure effective access to administrative and court proceedings for immigration and asylum cases, including relevant data protection disputes, or to sufficient funding for data protection authorities. Extensive harmonisation of national law and the creation of multiple interoperable data systems at EU level must be accompanied by an EU budget contribution toward legal aid in the Member States and further support for data protection authorities, in order to ensure that individual rights are protected effectively against disproportionate measures concerned with security and control.