The Spanish presidency of the Council and the European Parliament have reached a deal on the core political elements of five key regulations that will thoroughly overhaul the EU’s legal framework on asylum and migration.
The five EU laws that the Spanish presidency and Parliament have agreed on touch upon all stages of asylum and migration management, ranging from screening irregular migrants when they arrive in the EU, taking biometric data, procedures for making and handling asylum applications, the rules on determining which member state is responsible for handling an asylum application and cooperation and solidarity between member states and how to handle crisis situations, including cases of instrumentalisation of migrants.
The new rules, once adopted, will make the European asylum system more effective and will increase the solidarity between member states by enabling to lighten the load on those member states where most migrants arrive.
Next steps
Following today’s provisional agreement, work will continue at technical level in the coming weeks to flesh out the details of the new regulations.
After that the provisional agreement will be submitted to member states’ representatives (Coreper) for confirmation.
Commissioner Johansson visits the Canary Islands together with Spanish and Belgian ministers to provide support in the field of migration management |
Background
All five regulations which are part of this political agreement are components of the new pact on migration and asylum which the Commission proposed on 23 September 2020. The Council has reached its position on these five laws in June 2022, June 2023 and October 2023 respectively and has since then been negotiating with the European Parliament to settle to agree on a common stance.
More information: Council of the EU
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