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Delivering on the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum

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State of play

June 2024

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

    EU Asylum Agency

    Establishing a fully-fledged European Union Agency for Asylum.

  • Blue Card Directive

    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.

  • Qualification

    To harmonise protection standards in the EU and put an end to secondary movements and asylum shopping.

  • Reception Conditions

    Reception Conditions

    To harmonise reception conditions throughout the EU.

  • Resettlement Framework

    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

    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

    Asylum Procedures

    To reduce differences in recognition rates, discourage secondary movements and ensure introduce a new border procedure.

  • Eurodac

    Eurodac

    To adapt and reinforce the Eurodac fingerprint database to facilitate returns and help tackle irregular migration.

  • Crisis and Force Majeure

    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

    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

  1. June 2024

    Following the entry into force of adopted documents (11 June), the Commission presented the Common Implementation Plan for the Pact on Migration and Asylum (12 June)

  2. May 2024

    Final adoption by the Council

  3. April 2024

    Plenary adoption in the European Parliament

  4. 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
  5. December 2022

    Provisional agreement reached on:

    • Qualification Regulation
    • Reception Conditions Directive
    • Union Resettlement Framework Regulation
  6. June 2022

    Adoption of Voluntary Solidarity Mechanism

  7. April 2022

    Commission proposals on Skills and Talent package presented

  8. March 2022

    A new EU Return Coordinator appointed

  9. December 2021

    Adoption of EU Agency for Asylum

  10. October 2021

    Adoption of the Revised EU Blue Card Directive

  12. September 2020

    Commission proposals on a Pact on Migration and Asylum