Asylum Act
(AsylA)

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall, by agree­ment and on the prin­ciple that value for money will be en­sured, pay the pro­vider for the fol­low­ing tasks in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

provid­ing in­form­a­tion and coun­selling to asylum seekers;

b.

the par­ti­cip­a­tion of the leg­al rep­res­ent­at­ive in the ini­tial ques­tion­ing in the pre­par­at­ory phase and in the in­ter­view on the grounds for asylum;

c.

provid­ing an opin­ion on the draft asylum de­cision un­der the ac­cel­er­ated pro­ced­ure;

d.

provid­ing leg­al rep­res­ent­a­tion in ap­peal pro­ceed­ings, in par­tic­u­lar pre­par­ing the ap­peal doc­u­ment­a­tion;

e.

rep­res­ent­ing the in­terests of un­ac­com­pan­ied minor asylum seekers as a trus­ted per­son at fed­er­al centres and at air­ports;

f.

in the case of al­loc­a­tion to the ex­ten­ded pro­ced­ure, pro­vi­sion of in­form­a­tion by the as­signed leg­al rep­res­ent­at­ive to the leg­al ad­vice agency on the cur­rent state of pro­ceed­ings, or con­tinu­ation of leg­al rep­res­ent­a­tion as­signed in pro­ced­ur­al stages rel­ev­ant to a de­cision un­der Art­icle 102l;

g.³⁴⁶

ad­vice and as­sist­ance in re­la­tion to sub­mit­ting a com­plaint un­der Art­icle 111 of Reg­u­la­tion (EU) 2019/1896³⁴⁷.

² The pay­ment shall con­tain a con­tri­bu­tion to the ad­min­is­trat­ive and staff costs in­curred by the pro­vider, in par­tic­u­lar for the or­gan­isa­tion of coun­selling and leg­al rep­res­ent­a­tion, as well as a con­tri­bu­tion to in­de­pend­ent trans­la­tion. Pay­ment shall be made as a lump sum. In ex­cep­tion­al cases, the pay­ment may be based on the ac­tu­al ex­pendit­ure, es­pe­cially in the case of non-re­cur­ring costs.