The European Community Principle of Fair and Effective Asylum Procedures

The purpose of the research is to identify the meaning and content of the community law principle of effective legal and judicial protection for the new asylum directives and regulations under Title IV EC Treaty. In EC law, fundamental rights are effectuated in the form of principles of community law, formulated by the Court of Justice. Though these principles are inspired by human rights treaties, the principles have an autonomous content. Expectedly, in asylum cases, a unified guiding principle will emerge for clarifying the scope and application of unclear or unsatisfactory provisions of the relevant new asylum directives and regulations.