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Briefing - A common system for the return of third-country nationals staying illegally in the European Union - 17-03-2025

Sun, 16 Mar 2025 23:00:00 GMT

According to Directive 2008/115/EC, third-country nationals staying illegally on the territory of a European Union (EU) Member State should, as a general rule, be issued a return decision obliging them to leave the EU. However, available data suggest that, among those who receive such a decision, only about a quarter actually leave the EU. The limited effectiveness of the return policy is due to several challenges that the EU and Member States face when carrying out return procedures, including difficulties related to implementation at national level. To increase the effectiveness of the EU return policy, the European Commission announced in its 2025 work programme that it would develop a new common approach to returns, including a new legislative proposal on the subject.

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Tyrimas - Commission proposal for a revised Facilitation Directive: Targeted substitute impact assessment - 05-03-2025

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 23:00:00 GMT

This study constitutes a targeted substitute impact assessment of the Commission’s proposal for a revised Facilitation Directive (COM(2023) 755), presented on 28 November 2023 as part of a package to address migrant smuggling. It provides a critical review of the existing legal and policy framework at EU level and its shortcomings regarding transposition and implementation. It also undertakes a critical and thorough appraisal of the proposed objectives and measures in terms of coherence, effectiveness and efficiency, including with a view to assessing the adequacy of the interplay between this proposal and the related draft Regulation on enhancing police cooperation (COM(2023) 754). It highlights the misalignment of the proposal with relevant international and key EU law standards. It raises concerns about definitional issues, the lack of sufficient human rights safeguards, and the absence of a clear distinction between facilitation offences and the legitimate provision of services and humanitarian assistance. The study also examines the legality and proportionality of the proposed measures and stresses the need for a thorough evaluation of wider impacts on civic space and democracy at large.

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Briefing - Planned revision of the EU Return Directive - 20-02-2025

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:46:51 GMT

According to Directive 2008/115/EC (the Return Directive, RD), third-country nationals (TCNs) staying illegally on the territory of a Member State should, as a general rule, be issued a return decision obliging them to leave the EU. However, available data suggest that among those who receive such a decision, only about a quarter actually leave the EU (see Figure 1). Data on irregular migration, as well as returns statistics, should be used carefully, as they are often incomplete, inconsistent and insufficient. For example, statistics on return decisions may contain duplicates, whereas data on certain voluntary returns are not collected systematically. In 2018, the European Commission proposed a targeted revision of the RD aimed at updating the rules and streamlining procedures across Member States. As progress on the proposal stalled, the Commission sought to improve return rates through enhanced operational cooperation (e.g. an operational strategy on returns and a recommendation on mutual recognition of return decisions). The pact on migration and asylum, adopted in May 2024, introduced several changes on return. These include a new return border procedure applicable to TCNs rejected in the asylum border application, and the obligation for Member States to issue a common or joint decision for the rejection of an asylum claim and return. In her political guidelines for 2024-2029, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced her intention to develop a new common approach on returns, which would include a new legislative proposal on return. �Ϸ��վ has reiterated the need to improve the effectiveness of the EU's return policy, highlighting also the need to reconcile the sustainability of returns and respect for fundamental rights.

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Briefing - Community sponsorship schemes under the new pact on migration and asylum: A common EU approach? - 13-02-2025

Wed, 12 Feb 2025 23:00:00 GMT

The number of people in the world who have been forcibly displaced inside or outside their home country has risen significantly in recent years, as reflected in the unprecedented numbers of refugees and irregular migrants arriving in the EU since 2015. This highlights an urgent need to ensure organised, legal and safe pathways to protect migrants who embark on dangerous journeys and attempt to enter countries of destination irregularly, or find themselves in protracted refugee situations. A potential solution is the community sponsorship scheme, understood as encompassing several different approaches for refugee admission to third countries other than countries of origin or transit. The concept includes a shared responsibility between civil society and the state when engaging in refugee admission efforts, by providing financial, emotional, social and/or settlement support to help newly arrived refugees integrate in a third country. Community sponsorship for integration is particularly important in the EU, where local and national governments, alongside civil society, have been pondering how best to support newcomers and ease integration and social cohesion. Since 2015, the concept has been piloted and launched in several EU countries, including through the active input of regions and cities. The pact on migration and asylum, which entered into force in June 2024, affirmed the EU's commitment to supporting national sponsorship schemes and expressed its desire to do more to promote an EU approach to community sponsorship, building on the experience of Member States.

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Tyrimas - Proposal for a Regulation on police cooperation to counter migrant smuggling and human trafficking: Targeted substitute impact assessment - 05-02-2025

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:19:08 GMT

As part of a package to address migrant smuggling, on 28 November 2023 the European Commission proposed a regulation to strengthen police cooperation and Europol's role in the fight against migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings (COM(2023) 754). The proposal was not supported by an impact assessment. Following a request by the European �Ϸ��վ's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), this study presents a targeted substitute impact assessment of the proposed regulation. It provides an analysis of the current legal and political framework, reviews the problem definition and drivers identified by the Commission and assesses the proposed measures. It concludes that, while the proposal seeks to address gaps in inter-agency cooperation and information sharing, it raises concerns about its alignment with existing frameworks, insufficient data protection safeguards, and risks of conflating criminal law with migration control. The study also examines the proportionality of the proposed measures and stresses the need for a more robust evaluation of fundamental rights impacts.

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Briefing - Measuring irregular migration and returns in the EU - 22-01-2025

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 23:00:00 GMT

Irregular migration is hard to define and to measure. Several EU datasets provide indications of a range of aspects of irregular migration, such as attempted irregular crossings of EU external borders, detected irregular stays, loss of regular status and removals of irregular migrants. However, these datasets are often incomplete, inconsistent, and insufficient to capture the complex issues of irregular migration and return. Despite its shortcomings, data on irregular migration is highly consequential for EU policy making and contributes to the ongoing politicisation of migration in the EU. For example, the widely shared figures showing increasing numbers of people crossing into the EU irregularly, and scores of irregular migrants unwilling or unable to return to their country of origin, fuel a narrative of a long-standing migration crisis in the EU. Such figures also trigger renewed efforts to reinforce EU measures seeking to deter, criminalise, and return irregular migrants. By identifying relevant EU datasets on irregular migration and return and discussing key gaps and limitations, it can be concluded that the available data provide only a partial and sometimes misleading picture of irregular migration in the EU. New official data sources, expected to be available in the future, may alleviate some of the existing issues. However, these need to be complemented with additional indicators and approaches that focus on other important dimensions of migration and return policies, such as compliance with fundamental rights, efficiency, and policy coherence.

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Tyrimas - The European Council in 2023 - Overview of dynamics, discussions and decisions - 20-01-2025

Mon, 20 Jan 2025 18:04:23 GMT

Ukraine, migration, and the economy were uppermost on the agenda of the European Council in 2023 as EU leaders sought to maximise support for the victim of Russia's military aggression, cope with a rising number of refugees and asylum seekers and halt the EU's declining global competitiveness. Towards the end of the year, events in Gaza preoccupied EU leaders as Israel responded forcefully to the horrendous terrorist attack by Hamas on 7 October. EU leaders met seven times in 2023, including via videoconference on 17 October, as events in Gaza unfolded. Two of the meetings, in February and March, lasted only one day, not the planned two days. The relatively fewer and shorter meetings of the European Council in 2023 hints at the institution's greater efficiency rather than declining importance. The European Council was fully engaged throughout 2023 in tackling a host of critical issues and planning a new Strategic Agenda, despite the increasing obstructionism of one of its members.

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Glaustai - The facilitation of irregular migration by criminal networks - 15-01-2025

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 16:10:21 GMT

Migrant smuggling is a key activity for criminal networks operating in the EU, sustained by continued demand for facilitation services. Geopolitical and socioeconomic instability worldwide, as well as climate change, are expected to keep driving migratory movements. Migrant smuggling is a high-profit, low-risk business, and the criminal groups involved are increasingly sophisticated, professional and violent. Many of those who willingly pay smugglers to help them cross borders do so at great personal risk. �Ϸ��վ will discuss the links between organised crime and migrant smuggling during its January plenary session.

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Briefing - Understanding the EU's response to organised crime - 19-12-2024

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 23:00:00 GMT

Criminal organisations continue to pose big risks to the EU's internal security – a rising number of organised crime groups are active on EU territory, often with cross-border reach. The EU has made substantial progress in terms of protecting its citizens since the early 1990s. This has often been in response to dramatic incidents, such as murders committed by the mafia or other organised crime groups or big money-laundering scandals, or to negative trends, such as the steep increase in migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings following the 2015 migration crisis or the sharp rise in cybercrime, fraud and counterfeiting since the coronavirus pandemic. Organised crime is, furthermore, an increasingly dynamic and complex phenomenon, with new criminal markets and modi operandi emerging under the influence of globalisation, geopolitical instabilities and new technologies in particular. While the impact of serious and organised crime on the EU economy is considerable, there are also significant political and social costs, as well as negative effects on the well-being of EU citizens. As organised crime has become more interconnected, international and digital, Member States – which remain responsible for operational activities in the area of police and judicial cooperation – rely increasingly on cross-border and EU-level cooperation to support their law enforcement authorities on the ground. Recognising the severity of the problem and the need for coordinated action, the EU has initiated several measures to encourage closer cooperation between Member States; it has also adopted common legal, judicial and investigative frameworks to address organised crime. �Ϸ��վ has made fighting organised crime a political priority and helped shape the relevant EU legislation. Future EU action will focus on implementing existing rules, and on improving operational and international cooperation and information sharing, while also addressing some of the main activities of organised crime groups and going after the most threatening criminal networks. Furthermore, the EU aims to make sure that crime does not pay. This is an updated version of briefings published in 2020 and 2022.

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Glaustai - International Migrants' Day: 18 December 2024 - 12-12-2024

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 23:00:00 GMT

Drawing attention to migrants' human rights and highlighting their contribution to society, International Migrants' Day is observed every year on 18 December. The day was designated by the United Nations General Assembly on 4 December 2000 in response to growing migration numbers around the world.

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Briefing - Child migrants: Irregular entry and asylum - 14-11-2024

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 23:00:00 GMT

Child migration takes many forms, from family reunification and moving in the hope of finding a better life to forced and traumatic migration caused by conflict, poverty or climate change. Overall, the number of migrant children has been rising globally since the turn of the century. In 2020, there were an estimated 35.5 million international migrant children globally, the largest number ever recorded. This infographic focuses exclusively on forced and irregular movements of migrant children to the EU. According to Eurostat, on 1 January 2023 around 7.4 million children in the EU under the age of 18 did not have the citizenship of their country of residence.

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Glaustai - Plenary round-up – October II 2024 - 25-10-2024

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 22:00:00 GMT

A key moment during the October II session was the debate on managing migration in an effective and holistic way through fostering returns, based on a Commission statement following up the previous week's European Council conclusions. International topics also took up much of the agenda, with Members debating Commission statements on war crimes committed by Russia, EU action against Russian shadow fleets and ensuring full enforcement of sanctions, and protection of European journalists reporting on Russia's war against Ukraine. Moreover, they debated the situation in Azerbaijan, and in Tunisia, the need for a ceasefire in Lebanon, China's military provocation around Taiwan, and state-sponsored terrorism by Iran in light of recent attacks in Europe. Members also debated a number of Commission statements, inter alia on a stronger Europe for safer products to better protect consumers and tackle unfair competition, tackling the steel crisis, foreign interference and hybrid attacks, closing the EU skills gap, the abuse of new technologies to manipulate and radicalise young people through hate speech and antidemocratic discourse, the need to strengthen rail travel and the railway sector in Europe, and persistent threats to marine protected areas in the EU and benefits for coastal communities. Members also discussed the findings of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on Poland's abortion law, and the lack of progress in restoring the rule of law in Malta, seven years on from the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. The Court of Auditors' 2023 annual report was presented, in the presence of Tony Murphy, President of the Court. Finally, Members heard an address by Enrico Letta, presenting his report 'Much More Than a Market', which was followed by a debate on a �Ϸ��վ statement on empowering the Single Market to deliver a sustainable future and prosperity for all EU citizens.

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Briefing - Solidarity in EU asylum policy - 02-09-2024

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 22:00:00 GMT

The arrival of refugees and irregular migrants in the EU in unprecedented numbers in 2015 exposed a number of deficiencies in the EU's external border, asylum and migration policy, and sparked EU action through various legal and policy instruments. Today, even though the EU has been relatively successful in securing its external borders, curbing irregular migrant arrivals and increasing cooperation with third countries, Member States are still reluctant to show solidarity and do more to share responsibility for asylum-seekers. Turmoil in Africa and the Middle East, followed by the war in Ukraine and the armed conflict in the Gaza Strip are forcing more and more people to flee violence and seek a safe haven in Europe. At times spontaneously, Member States have reacted to these crises and showed open solidarity, as with regard to the Ukrainian citizens fleeing the war. At other times their reaction has been more ambivalent: take for instance the ripples of discord caused by the disembarkation in November 2022 of migrants rescued from the Mediterranean by four private vessels, which once again clearly demonstrated the need for a more stable and predictable mechanism to manage irregular migration. International cooperation and solidarity are key in helping to manage migration to and between states. Under international law, states have certain legal obligations to assist and protect the refugees they accept on their territory, but the legal duties of other states, as regards providing help and sharing that responsibility, are less clearly codified. At EU level, the principle of solidarity is set out in several articles, including Article 80 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). However, EU law does not define the notions of 'solidarity' or 'fair sharing of responsibilities' for refugees or asylum-seekers. This has prompted EU institutions, academics and other stakeholders to propose different ways to render solidarity more operational; these include sharing out relevant tasks and pooling resources at EU level, and providing financial and other forms of compensation for frontline Member States. The migration and asylum pact adopted in spring 2024 sets out a new flexible but mandatory solidarity system. This updates and expands on a January 2023 briefing by the same authors.

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Briefing - Revision of the Schengen Borders Code - 03-07-2024

Tue, 02 Jul 2024 22:00:00 GMT

In December 2021, the European Commission presented a proposal to amend the Schengen Borders Code, which lays down the rules governing controls at the EU internal and external borders. While debates on the reform of Schengen have been going on for a while, recent challenges – relating to the coronavirus pandemic on the one hand, and attempts to instrumentalise migrants as a way to put pressure on the EU's external borders, on the other – have brought new momentum for reform. The Commission's proposal is designed to improve the Schengen system's resilience to serious threats and adapt it to new challenges. It introduces a new coordination mechanism to deal with health threats at the external borders and a new Schengen safeguard mechanism to provide a common response at the internal borders in situations of threats affecting Member States, including the possibility to transfer irregular migrants apprehended at the internal borders directly back to the competent authorities in the EU country from which it is assumed they just came, without undergoing an individual assessment. The co-legislators reached a provisional agreement on the proposal in February 2024. The agreed text was adopted by the European �Ϸ��վ in April and by the Council in May. Published in the Official Journal on 20 June, the new regulation enters into force in July 2024. Third edition. The 'EU Legislation in Progress' briefings are updated at key stages throughout the legislative procedure.

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Glaustai - Outcome of the 50th G7 Summit, held in Apulia, Italy - 03-07-2024

Tue, 02 Jul 2024 22:00:00 GMT

G7 leaders gathered under the Italian presidency from 13 to 15 June 2024 in Apulia, Italy, for the 50th G7 Summit. The summit was a demonstration of the G7's unity and determination in the face of intense challenges to the rules-based multilateral order and international peace and security: Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine and the war in Gaza. In the presence of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the leaders agreed to provide US$50 billion in additional funding to Ukraine from frozen Russian sovereign assets. The leaders also backed the comprehensive deal on Gaza outlined by United States (US) President Joe Biden. The Italian presidency put special focus on energy cooperation with Africa as a priority for the G7.

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Briefing - Revision of the visa suspension mechanism - 13-06-2024

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 22:00:00 GMT

In October 2023, the Commission submitted a proposal to revise Regulation (EU) 2018/1806 in order to strengthen the visa suspension mechanism. This mechanism allows the EU to temporarily suspend visa exemptions in the event of increased irregular migration or security risks from a visa free country. The proposal addresses three main challenges to the EU visa regime: the misalignment of visa policies of certain visa-free countries with the EU visa policy; the growing number of asylum seekers from visa-free countries; and the risks to the EU's internal security posed by investor citizenship schemes operated by certain visa-free countries. To enhance the visa suspension mechanism, the proposal expands the grounds for suspension of visa exemptions, makes procedures more flexible, and increases the Commission's monitoring and reporting obligations. The proposal is subject to the ordinary legislative procedure, where the European �Ϸ��վ and the Council act as co-legislators. The Council adopted its negotiating mandate on the proposal in March 2024. In �Ϸ��վ, a draft report was presented in February 2024. As discussions continued throughout the spring, the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee (LIBE), responsible for the file decided to postpone the vote on the report until after the June 2024 European elections. First edition. The 'EU Legislation in Progress' briefings are updated at key stages throughout the legislative procedure.

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Briefing - Recast Eurodac Regulation - 06-06-2024

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 22:00:00 GMT

Eurodac is a biometric database in which Member States are required to enter the fingerprint data of asylum-seekers in order to identify where they entered the European Union (EU). Established in 2000 and reviewed in 2013, its main purpose is to facilitate the application of the Dublin Regulation. The 2013 revision of the regulation broadened its scope to provide law enforcement authorities with access to the Eurodac database. As part of the reform of the common European asylum system in 2016, the European Commission proposed a recast of the Eurodac Regulation. The co-legislators reached a partial agreement on the proposal in 2018. As part of the broader migration and asylum pact, the new Commission presented an amended proposal on 23 September 2020. Following trilogue negotiations, a political agreement on the Eurodac was reached on 20 December 2023. �Ϸ��վ adopted the regulation at its plenary session on 10 April 2024 and the Council adopted the act on 14 May 2024. The final act was published in the Official Journal on 22 May 2024. It will apply from 12 June 2026, with the exception of Article 26, which will apply from 12 June 2029. Fourth edition. The 'EU Legislation in Progress' briefings are updated at key stages throughout the legislative procedure.

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Briefing - Screening of third-country nationals at the EU's external borders - 04-06-2024

Mon, 03 Jun 2024 22:00:00 GMT

In September 2020, the Commission put forward a new pact on migration and asylum, setting out a comprehensive approach to European Union (EU) migration policies that links external borders, asylum, return systems, the Schengen area of free movement and the external dimension of migration. The pact includes a proposal for a new regulation on the screening of third-country nationals at external borders aiming to clarify and streamline the rules on dealing with third-country nationals who are not authorised to enter or stay in the EU. The proposal would introduce a pre-entry screening procedure allowing national authorities at external borders to channel irregular third-country nationals to the appropriate procedure, i.e. asylum or return procedures. The screening would start with preliminary health and vulnerability checks and finish with the transmission of a debriefing form to the appropriate authorities. The proposal would provide for the establishment, by each Member State, of an independent monitoring mechanism for fundamental rights. The �Ϸ��վ adopted the regulation in April 2024 and the Council in May. The new regulation enters into force on 11 June 2024 and will apply from 12 June 2026. Fourth edition. The 'EU Legislation in Progress' briefings are updated at key stages throughout the legislative procedure.

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Briefing - 'Sahelexit' in West Africa: Implications for ECOWAS and the EU - 26-04-2024

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 22:00:00 GMT

At the end of January 2024, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger announced their withdrawal (referred to as 'Sahelexit' by several media outlets) from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). This withdrawal – with immediate effect according to the departing states, within a one-year deadline according to the ECOWAS Treaty – presents a complex set of challenges for the region. ECOWAS, initially designed to promote regional economic integration, has over the years adopted protocols to uphold democracy and good governance. On several occasions it has adopted sanctions against unconstitutional changes of government in its member states, like those that recently occurred in Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso and Niger. However, these actions have had mixed results, with negative effects on most ECOWAS member states, hindering economic cooperation and increasing trade costs, thereby complicating regional integration efforts and increasing humanitarian crises. The three states presented their withdrawal as a reaction to sanctions. Despite the lifting of sanctions, the three states are still considering bringing their new Alliance of Sahelian States (AES) out of ECOWAS. The withdrawal will probably not mitigate the negative effects of the sanctions; it also risks weakening existing security mechanisms and international cooperation, already made fragile by the forced departure of UN and Western forces from these states, while Russian private military companies appear to be taking over in the three AES countries. The impact on the EU is manifold. The rising influence of Russia and other players, coupled with the increasingly negative perception of France in its former colonies, is already challenging the EU's clout in the region. EU security and migration strategies throughout West Africa depend significantly on the leverage of ECOWAS over its member states. As this leverage is reduced by the withdrawal of three of them, this could potentially escalate security risks and further destabilise neighbouring regions. Migration flows might become less controlled, potentially increasing irregular migration to Europe.

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Briefing - Legal fiction of non-entry in EU asylum policy - 19-04-2024

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 22:00:00 GMT

The fiction of 'non-entry' is a claim that states use in border management to deny the legal arrival of third-country nationals on their territory, regardless of their physical presence, until granted entry by a border or immigration officer. It is usually applied in transit zones at international airports between arrival gates and passport control, signifying that the persons who have arrived have not yet entered the territory of the destination country. Although physically present, they are not considered to have legally entered the country's official territory until they have undergone the necessary clearance. In the EU, all Member States make use of the fiction of non-entry in transit zones at ports of entry, but usually in a non-asylum context. In 2018, Germany was one of the first Member States to extend this concept to include land crossings. Since the mass arrival of asylum-seekers in 2015-2016, other Member States too have increasingly looked into ways of using this claim to inhibit asylum-seekers' entry to their territory and thereby avoid the obligation under international law to provide them with certain protection and aid. This, however, may lead to a risk of refoulement, as the fiction of non-entry limits asylum-seekers' movement and access to rights and procedures, including the asylum procedure. This is a revised edition of a briefing published in March 2024.

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Glaustai - Revised rules on advance passenger information - 16-04-2024

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:30:46 GMT

In December 2021, the European Commission proposed to revise the EU legal framework on the collection and transfer of advance passenger information (API). The current API Directive will be replaced by two regulations: one on the collection and transfer of API for border management purposes, and another on the collection and transfer of API for law enforcement purposes. Following the co-legislators reaching of provisional agreements in March 2024, the �Ϸ��վ is due to vote on the proposals during its April II plenary session.

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Glaustai - Revision of the Schengen Borders Code - 16-04-2024

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 08:54:16 GMT

In December 2021, the European Commission proposed to revise the Schengen Borders Code, with a view to strengthening the Schengen area. The revision introduces new rules to address challenges relating to irregular migration, security and public health emergencies. Following the provisional agreement reached by the co legislators in December 2023, �Ϸ��վ will vote on the proposal during its April II part-session.

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Glaustai - Recast Eurodac Regulation - 08-04-2024

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 16:02:26 GMT

Eurodac is a biometric database in which Member States are required to enter the fingerprint data of asylum-seekers or irregular migrants in order to identify where they entered the EU, and whether they have previously submitted asylum applications elsewhere in the EU. In 2016, the Commission proposed to review the Eurodac Regulation to enhance the practical implementation of the Dublin system, facilitate returns and use the database to tackle irregular migration. During the April I plenary session, the European �Ϸ��վ is due to vote its first-reading position on the agreement resulting from interinstitutional negotiations.

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Glaustai - Qualification Directive - 08-04-2024

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 14:12:18 GMT

The 2015 migration crisis in Europe called into question existing EU legislation on asylum, in particular the criteria according to which asylum applicants can qualify for international protection status, as recognised in the Qualification Directive. In July 2016, the Commission put forward a proposal to replace the directive with a regulation, setting uniform standards for the recognition of people in need of protection and for the rights granted to beneficiaries of international protection. The December 2023 trilogue agreement is scheduled to be voted by �Ϸ��վ at first reading during the April I plenary session.

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Glaustai - Asylum and migration management regulation - 08-04-2024

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 14:06:09 GMT

In September 2020, as part of the EU pact on migration and asylum, the European Commission adopted a proposal on asylum and migration management. It would replace the 2013 Dublin Regulation that determines the EU Member State responsible for examining asylum applications. While the proposal 'essentially preserves' the current criteria for determining this responsibility, it would also make additions to the existing regulation, in particular on solidarity and responsibility-sharing for asylum-seekers among Member States. During the April I plenary session, the European �Ϸ��վ is due to vote its first-reading position on the December 2023 agreement resulting from interinstitutional negotiations.

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