The Pact on Migration and Asylum is a set of legislative rules and policies aimed at creating a fairer, efficient, and more sustainable migration and asylum process for the European Union. This page contains an overview of the status of Commission’s proposals.
Adopted
EU Asylum Agency
Establishing a fully-fledged European Union Agency for Asylum.
Blue Card Directive
Assisting employers in recruiting from outside the EU by making the process easier and more accessible.
Single Permit
To make the process of obtaining a single permit quicker and easier for applicants and employers.
Adopted in Plenary by the European Parliament
Qualification
To harmonise protection standards in the EU and put an end to secondary movements and asylum shopping.
Reception Conditions
To harmonise reception conditions throughout the EU.
Resettlement Framework
To align how EU Member States resettle recognised refugees from outside EU territory, such as those in refugee camps.
Asylum and Migration Management
To establish a new solidarity mechanism amongst Member States to
balance the current system where a few countries are responsible for the vast majority of asylum applications, and clear rules on responsibility for asylum applications.
Screening
To introduce a new health, identity and security check at all EU external borders.
Asylum Procedures
To reduce differences in recognition rates, discourage secondary movements and ensure introduce a new border procedure.
Eurodac
To adapt and reinforce the Eurodac fingerprint database to facilitate returns and help tackle irregular migration.
Crisis and Force Majeure
To set out the exceptional measures that can and should be taken to deal with crisis situations to allow Member States to act quickly and decisively.
Related files not yet adopted
Long-Term Residents
To make it easier to acquire the EU long-term residence status by simplifying the admission conditions.
Trilogues between the European Parliament, the Council and the
Commission are ongoing.
Return
To streamline return procedures and close gaps by linking the issuance of a negative asylum decision with a return order.
The Council adopted a negotiating mandate in June 2019. Work is ongoing in the European Parliament to adopt its negotiating mandate.
Timeline
- April 2024
Plenary adoption in the European Parliament
- December 2023
Provisional agreement reached on key proposals of the Pact:
- Eurodac Regulation
- Screening Regulation
- Asylum Procedure Regulation
- Single Permit Directive
- Asylum Migration Management Regulation
- Crisis Regulation
- December 2022
Provisional agreement reached on:
- Qualification Regulation
- Reception Conditions Directive
- Union Resettlement Framework Regulation
- June 2022
Adoption of Voluntary Solidarity Mechanism
- April 2022
Commission proposals on Skills and Talent package presented
- March 2022
A new EU Return Coordinator appointed
- December 2021
Adoption of EU Agency for Asylum
- October 2021
Adoption of the Revised EU Blue Card Directive
- September 2020
Commission proposals on a Pact on Migration and Asylum