The E.U.’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum

Last week, the European Parliament and Council agreed to the New Pact on Migration and Asylum, first proposed in September 2020. The Pact covers “five key proposals”, which are: 

1. Screening Regulation: Creating uniform rules concerning the identification of non-EU nationals upon their arrival, thus increasing the security within the Schengen area.
2. Eurodac Regulation: Developing a common database gathering more accurate and complete data to detect unauthorised movements.
3. Asylum Procedures Regulation: Making asylum, return and border procedures quicker and more effective.
4. Asylum Migration Management Regulation: Establishing 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.
5. Crisis and Force majeure Regulation: Ensuring that the EU is prepared in the future to face situations of crisis, including instrumentalisation of migrants.

This webpage includes the above proposals, a visual timeline of the changes, and identifies additional “outcomes” already delivered to date.

-KitJ