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Opinion | JURI | ECHERER Raina A. Mercedes (V/ALE) | |
Lead | LIBE | SCHMITT Ingo (PPE-DE) |
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2001/03/01
Final act published in Official Journal
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2000/06/15
Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
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T5-0278/2000
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The European Parliament adopted the resolution drafted by Ingo SCHMITT (EPP/ED, Germany) on the Commission's working document on common standards on asylum procedures. Parliament favours, in addition to harmonising asylum procedures, a policy of burden sharing amongst Member States. the Commission is urged to rationalise the schedule of legislative proposals by means of: -a directive on the standards for reception of asylum seekers -a regulation to apply the Dublin system across the whole Community -a directive to grant temporary protection to displaced persons and refugees -rules on equal and appropriate sharing of efforts of displaced persons and de facto refugees. Parliament also calls for the inclusion of certain basic procedural rights in any future common asylum procedure, such as the right of access to the procedure, as well as the inclusion of certain basic obligations on the part of the authorities. The latter includes the obligation to undertake an impartial and objective examination of the application by a fully qualified authority. Member States are called on to compile a common list, binding on all Member States, of countries subject to the visa requirement, and to update that list at regular intervals. A similar procedure should be followed as regards 'safe third countries and countries of origin'. The concept of a "manifestly unfounded application" should be clearly defined.�
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T5-0278/2000
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- 2000/06/14 Debate in Parliament
- 2000/04/19 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
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1999/10/04
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
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1999/03/03
Non-legislative basic document published
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SEC(1999)0271
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PURPOSE : to launch a discussion on the adoption of measures towards common standards on asylum procedures. CONTENT : the Treaty establishing the European Community, as amended by the Treaty of Amsterdam, will require the Council to adopt measures on minimum standards on procedures in Member States for granting or withdrawing refugee status. The Commission intends to bring forward a proposal for a Community legal instrument on asylum procedures after the entry into force of the new Treaty. This working document is intended to launch a discussion on asylum procedures which will take place in the Council and the European Parliament. After this debate has taken place, the Commission will finalise a proposal for a Community legal instrument on asylum procedures. This paper will also serve as the basis for a dialogue with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and with the non-governmental sector, which states that consultations shall be established with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and other relevant international organisations on matters relating to asylum policy. The new Treaty will require the Council to adopt measures in a number of specific areas of asylum and protection policy, mostly within five years of its entry into force. The legislative programme on asylum and protection issues following the entry into force of the Treaty of Amsterdam can be divided into the following eight topics: - criteria and mechanisms for determining which Member State is responsible for considering an apllication for asylum submitted by a national of a third country in one of the Member States; - Eurodac; - minimum standards on the reception of asylum seekers in Member States; - minimum standards with respect to the qualification of nationals of third countries as refugees; - minimum standards on procedures in Member States for granting or withdrawing refugee status; - minimum standards for complementary/subsidiarity protection for persons in need of international protection; - minimum standards for giving temporary protection to displaced person from third countries who cannot return to their countries of origin; - promoting a balance of effort between Member States in receiving and bearing the consequences of receiving refugees and displaced persons. The scope and content of an instrument on asylum procedures must be considered in the light of overall work programme under the Treaty of Amsterdam. Broadly, there are two possible approaches to a first pillar instrument on asylum procedures: 1) to establish a certain level of procedural safeguards and guarantees which all Member States would have to provide, in the interests of of procedural fairness, whilst allowing Member States some degree of flexibility to determine the details of the administrative arrangements necessary for implementing these guarantees and to decide whether they wished to apply all the measures available for speeding up theprocedures; or 2) to adopt a more prescriptive approach, which would require all Member States to apply exactly the same procedure, so that full harmonisation would be achieved. The Commission envisages that, in the first instance, it will bring forward a proposal in line with approach (1) above, in view of the structure of the Action Plan on how best to implement the provisions of the Treaty of Amsterdam establishing an area of freedom,security and justice. The Action Plan envisages an instrument on asylum procedures within two years of the entry into force of the new Treaty. Separately, it makes provision for a study with a view to establishing the merits of a single European asylum procedure, also within a two year timetable. This seems to imply that the European Union should first aim to put in place a binding instrument on asylum procedures, and then in the slightly longer term, on the basis of a single asylum system (which would presumably also cover such issues as reception and the refugee definition).�
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SEC(1999)0271
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Documents
- Non-legislative basic document published: SEC(1999)0271
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A5-0123/2000
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0278/2000
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