Report on the Performance of Activities of the National Preventive Mechanism for 2015 responsible for evaluating the application for international protection in the biggest number of cases. The Dublin Regulation is complemented by the EURODAC Regulation, by virtue of which member states immediately take fingerprints of each applicant for international protection or irregular migrant and deliver them to the central system no later than within 72 hours. However, member states in the Balkan route have selectively applied these Regulations, because implementation of registration according to the Dublin system would make them the first countries of entry and thus most commonly the countries responsible for implementation of the international protection procedure, or they would be obligated to return those persons to their countries of origin or to a safe country as irregular migrants. When deciding on how to treat refugees, Hungary placed higher priority on the preservation of its state border than on the issue of protecting their rights and ensuring treatment that would be in accordance with the Convention and the Protocol. First attempts at reducing the Other countries, after initial disagreement, finally came inflow of refugees were based on to an agreement on establishing a humanitarian corridor the approach which allowed the where refugees would be ensured safe passage to the citizens of Syria, Afghanistan and countries of their destination, leaving it to each individual Iraq to pass through the corridor, refugee to choose whether he/she wishes to seek while citizens of other countries international protection in any of the transit countries. were denied this right, presuming Such conduct of transit states can also be regarded as a that they were irregular migrants. way of ensuring the rights of refugees in line with the This was completely unacceptable Convention. However, for fear of closing of the borders and basically discriminatory, of reception countries, the transit countries (including because criteria for profiling were Croatia) used profiling at the borders to reduce the skin colour, excellent knowledge number of refugees that were allowed entry into their of geography of the country of territory. First attempts at reducing the inflow of origin and correct pronunciation refugees were based on the approach which allowed the of the language, where the citizens of Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq to pass through the determining of these facts was corridor, while citizens of other countries were denied left to subjective assessment of this right. This meant that a presumption was implied that police officers or even citizens of all those other countries were irregular interpreters. migrants, which was completely unacceptable and basically discriminatory, because criteria for profiling were skin colour, excellent knowledge of geography of the country of origin and correct pronunciation of the language, where the determining of these facts was left to subjective assessment of police officers or even interpreters. Measures that the EC intends to use to contribute to the solution of the refugee crisis primarily pertained to activation of a permanent mechanism for relocation of refugees, a common list of safe countries of origin and an efficient policy of returning irregular migrants. All those elements should represent a part of the evolution of the Common European Asylum System. However, these measures do not represent an adequate response to the mass inflow of refugees, especially due to the poor interest on the part of member states to work together in 40