European Parliament 22 February 2002, WRITTEN QUESTION E-0490/02 by Glyn Ford (PSE) to the Commission. Carriers' liability.

On 1 October 2001, the Austrian Constitutional Court declared that the country’s carriers’ liability law was unconstitutional and therefore null and void. The Austrian Supreme Court noted that carriers were delegated a number of tasks normally performed by officials at immigration desks and that it was therefore not clear how they could avoid depriving asylum-seekers of their right to claim