Asylum agency must pay agreed €50,000 fee each day main shelter is overcrowded

The Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) must continue to pay a penalty of 50,000 euros per day to the municipality of Westerwolde if the registration centre in Ter Apel is overcrowded. This was determined by the Court of Appeal in Leeuwarden on appeal. Last autumn, the judge had imposed a penalty of 50,000 euros per day on the COA if the maximum occupancy of 2,000 asylum seekers in Ter Apel was exceeded. The COA did not agre…

The judge ruled in October that the COA had to pay the fine for each day that more than 2,000 people stayed on the site. The court in Leeuwarden now stands by that decision.

Asylum agency must pay agreed €50,000 fee each day main shelter is overcrowded

The Dutch government agency responsible for caring for people seeking asylum must keep paying 50,000 euros each time there are too many asylum seekers present at the main reception facility in Ter Apel, the Court of Appeal for Arnhem-Leeuwarden wrote in a verdict released on Tuesday. The agency which manages asylum reception, COA, previously agreed to pay the penalty amount each day that more than 2,000 prospective refugees are sheltered at the …

While various municipalities are taking tough action against the arrival of asylum seekers' centres, residents in Dongen have fought to keep the emergency shelter. After a petition, money was finally provided from The Hague and the shelter can remain open for another year. "It's good that we offer people help," says a local resident. The emergency shelter at the Nestel on the Tichelrijt industrial estate is located on the Wilhelminakanaal in Don…

Now that a judge has again ruled that the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) must pay 50,000 euros for each time the registration centre in Ter Apel is too busy, the agency is considering "the consequences this will have for the future". This was stated by chairman Milo Schoenmaker after the ruling on Tuesday on the appeal filed by the COA.