Part 2: Asylum Chapter 8: Removal to safe third country Interpretation of Refugee Convention
The current UK asylum law is derived from a range of sources: international and European law, primary and secondary legislation, the Immigration Rules (which are in turn supported by policy and guidance), and a substantial body of case law.
	The following sections intend to consolidate the legislation which underpins the system to make it easier to navigate for all those who use it.
	The Refugee Convention, which sets out the international legal framework for the protection of refugees, contains broad concepts and principles, many of which are open to some degree of interpretation as to exactly what they mean in practice.
	In order to create a consistent and fair EU-wide asylum system, the EU created the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) in 1999. CEAS sets out common standards and co-operation to ensure that asylum seekers are treated equally in an open and fair system. This was set out in a number of Directives, the contents of which were transposed into domestic law (where there was not already a suitable domestic provision), largely via the Immigration Rules. Several statutory instruments were also made to complete transposition where there was no pre-existing domestic statute, or the Immigration Rules were not suitable.
	One such statutory instrument was the Refugee or Person in Need of International Protections (Qualification) Regulations 2006, which transposed (in part) The Qualification Directive (2004/83/EC) into UK legislation. This is an EU law which set out criteria for the CEAS when determining when an individual is eligible for recognition as a refugee and the rights and assistance that must be afforded to those individuals who are recognised as such.
	The UK’s departure from the EU provides an opportunity to clearly define, in a unified source, some of the key elements of the Refugee Convention in UK domestic law.