I shall begin my speech by reminding you that the Eurodac system for comparing the fingerprints of asylum seekers and certain other categories of alien was created in order to facilitate the application of the Dublin Convention, a text which makes it possible to determine the State responsible for examining the asylum applications received in one of the European Union Member States.
Indledningsvis må jeg erindre om, at Eurodac-systemet til sammenligning af asylansøgeres og visse andre udlændinges fingeraftryk er oprettet for at gøre det lettere at anvende Dublin-konventionen. Dublin-konventionen skal som bekendt sikre, at det kan afgøres, hvilken medlemsstat der er ansvarlig for behandlingen af en asylansøgning indgivet i en af Den Europæiske Unions medlemsstater.