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EJTN Training on EU Asylum Law, Lisbon, 5-6 November 2015 „EUROPEAN CHAPTER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REFUGEE LAW JUDGES (IARLJ)“

Boštjan Zalar, Vice-President of the European Chapter of the IARLJ bostjan.zalar@sodisce.si

Article 2 of the Constitution of the IARLJ

”The association seeks to foster recognition that protection from persecution on account

• f race, religion, nationality, membership in a

particular social group, or political opinion is an individual right established under international law, and that the determination

• f refugee status and its cessation should be

subject to the rule of law.”

Internal structure of the IARLJ:

• General Assembly
• President and the Council (executive

decisions),

• Chapters: Europe, Austral-Asia, Africa,

America,

• Working Parties: Human Rights Nexus,

Membership of a Particular Social Group, Expert Evidence, Subsidiary Protection, Vulnerable Persons, Asylum Procedures, COI and Country Guidance, Exclusion Clauses and Statelessness.

The European Chapter of the IARLJ:

• European Chapter as autonomous legal

entity (2013), but part of IARLJ,

• around 250 members of the European

Chapter,

• a member of the European Chapter is

automatically a member of the IARLJ,

• individual membership fee for one year: 20.00

EUR - main source of budget (UNHCR and ad hoc contributors).

The main activities of the European Chapter:

• regional/world conferences every 2/3 years

(Berlin meetings each year),

• training services in Europe and elsewhere,
• judicial check-lists, guidelines, conference

papers,

• tripartite meetings: CJEU-ECtHR-IARLJ

(UNHCR),

• EASO-IARLJ training materials,
• other cooperation: EJTN, ERA, UNHCR ...

TAIEX, CoE, Commission, ECRE, HHC, AEAJ

Examples of publications of European Chapter:

• Judicial Criteria for Assessing COI (Nov.

2006)

• Guidelines on the Judicial Approach to

Expert Medical Evidence (June 2010)

• Preliminary references to the CJEU: A note

for national judges handling asylum related cases (2013)

• Credibility Assessment in EU Asylum

Systems, May 2013 (UNHCR-HHC-IARLJ),

Examples of publications of European Chapter:

• Article 15c (serious harm) QD (IARLJ-

EASO), Dec. 2014

• Art. 12&17 (exclusion) QD (IARLJ-

EASO), Dec. 2015

Core judicial training materials: IARLJ-EASO 3 Years Project:

• Introduction to the CEAS (Dec. 2015)
• Qualification for International Protection

(2016)

• Access to Procedures (2016-2017)
• Credibility and Evidence Assessment (2016-

2017)