M.S.S. v. BELGIUM AND GREECE JUDGMENT 57 European Union member State, he did not fall within the scope of the readmission agreement concluded between Greece and Turkey. 280. In their oral observations before the Grand Chamber, the Government further relied on the fact that the applicant had not kept the appointment of 21 June 2010 for an initial interview on 2 July 2010, when that interview would have been an opportunity for him to explain his fears to the Greek authorities in the event of his return to Afghanistan. It followed, according to the Government, that not only had the applicant shown no interest in the asylum procedure, but he had not exhausted the remedies under Greek law regarding his fears of a violation of Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention. B. Observations of the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, the UNHCR, the AIRE Centre, Amnesty International and the Greek Helsinki Monitor, third-party interveners 281. The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, the UNHCR, the AIRE Centre, Amnesty International and the Greek Helsinki Monitor were all of the opinion that the current legislation and practice in Greece in asylum matters were not in conformity with international and European human rights protection standards. They deplored the lack of adequate information, or indeed of any proper information at all about the asylum procedure, the lack of suitably trained staff to receive and process asylum applications, the poor quality of first-instance decisions owing to structural weaknesses and the lack of procedural guarantees, in particular access to legal aid and an interpreter and the ineffectiveness as a remedy of an appeal to the Supreme Administrative Court because of the excessively long time it took, the fact that it had no automatic suspensive effect and the difficulty in obtaining legal aid. They emphasised that “Dublin” asylumseekers were faced with the same obstacles in practice as other asylumseekers. 282. The Commissioner and the UNHCR expressed serious concern about the continuing practice by the Greek authorities of forced returns to Turkey, be they collective or individual. The cases they had identified concerned both persons arriving for the first time and those already registered as asylum-seekers. C. The Court’s assessment 1. Admissibility 283. The Greek Government submitted that the applicant was not a victim within the meaning of Article 34 of the Convention because he alone