Under the reform, a new ground for issuing a residence permit will be introduced. Thus, when an international body with competence to examine individual complaints has concluded that a decision to refuse an alien entry, or to expel/deport an alien, is in breach of Sweden’s treaty obligations, the alien in question shall be given a residence permit unless there are extraordinary reasons against such measure. No application on the part of the alien will be needed. Within the framework of the European Union, the Commission has proposed the adoption of a directive on minimum standards when it comes to the procedure for granting or revoking asylum status. For this reason, the Government decided on 11 August 2005 that an expert is to be appointed by the Minister for Asylum Policy and Migration with the mandate to examine how the directive may be implemented in Sweden. In the Government’s opinion, security cases may not be put on an entirely equal footing with asylum cases in general. This viewpoint is also expressed in the draft directive’s preamble. However, the draft directive includes no particular operative provisions with regard to security cases. It is therefore necessary to look into how a special procedure for the handling of security cases may be established within the framework of the draft directive. Activities within the Council of Europe Against the events of 11 September 2001, a set of Guidelines on Human Rights and the Fight against Terrorism was adopted by the Council of Europe in July 2002. It was followed this year by a set of Guidelines on the Protection of Victims of Terrorist Acts. Following a meeting of the Council of Europe in June 2005, Sweden proposed to initiate the elaboration of a non-binding instrument circumscribing the use of diplomatic assurances in aliens’ cases. It was stressed that such a document was not to be given the same status as the two already existing sets of Council of Europe guidelines in this field since diplomatic assurances should be a rare phenomenon and be resorted to - if at all - only in exceptional circumstances and when they could be expected to have the intended effect. The suggestion was accepted and a meeting for this purpose was scheduled for December 2005. 112