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Written by Anja Radjenovic (6th edition, updated on 27.05.2024).
Asylum-seekers and refugees must be treated according to the standards laid down in human rights and refugee law. The 2015 migration crisis revealed wide divergences in the reception conditions in the EU Member States. While some encounter difficulties in ensuring adequate and dignified treatment of applicants, others offer more generous standards of reception. This has led to secondary movements of asylum-seekers and refugees, putting pressure on some Member States.
The aim of the proposed recast Reception Conditions Directive, to replace the current one, is to ensure greater harmonisation of reception standards and more equal treatment of asylum-seekers across the entire EU, as well as to avoid ‘asylum shopping’, whereby asylum-seekers choose the Member State with the highest protection standards for their application.
The Commission tabled its proposal on the recast directive in 2016. After reaching a partial provisional agreement on its text in 2018, the Parliament and the Council reached a final agreement on 15 December 2022. The Parliament adopted the agreed text at first reading at its plenary session of 10 April 2024, and Coreper approved the agreement on 8 February 2024. After the presidents of both institutions signed the directive on 14 May 2024, it was published in the Official Journal of the EU on 22 May 2024 and will enter into force in June 2024. Member States will then have 2 years to transpose the provisions of the directive into their national laws.
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- May 2024: ‘Reception of asylum-seekers – recast Directive‘ (6th edition)
| Proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down standards for the reception of applicants for international protection (recast) |
| Committee responsible: | Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) | COM(2016)0465 13.7.2016 |
| Rapporteur: | Sophia in ‘t Veld (Renew, the Netherlands) | 2016/0222(COD) |
| Shadow rapporteurs: | Lena Düpont (EPP, Germany) Cyrus Engerer (S&D, Malta) Damien Carême (Greens/EFA, France) Lars Patrick Berg (ECR, Germany) Patryk Jaki (ECR, Poland) Cornelia Ernst (The Left, Germany) | Ordinary legislative procedure (COD) (Parliament and Council on equal footing – formerly ‘co-decision’) |
| Procedure completed: Directive (EU) 2024/1346 OJ L, 2024/1346, 22.5.2024 |
Visit the European Parliament page on ‘Improving the Common European Asylum System‘.
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