EU Council of Ministers adopts Pact on Migration and Asylum

The EU Council of Ministers adopted the Pact on Migration and Asylum. The pact establishes a set of rules that will help manage arrivals smoothly, create efficient and uniform procedures and ensure fair burden-sharing among member states. Complete overhaul of the EU's asylum and migration system The Council today approved a total of 10 pieces of legislation reforming the entire European framework for managing asylum and migration. The Screening Regulation will allow national authorities to refer irregular migrants and asylum seekers at the external borders to the relevant procedure and ensure that identification, security and vulnerability checks and health assessment are carried out in a uniform manner. The new rules on the updated Eurodac database will allow more accurate and comprehensive data (including biometric data) to be collected on different categories of migrants, including applicants for international protection and people arriving illegally in the EU. This will help inform […]
Source: News Beast

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