Recitals – Page 16 – EU Migration Pact information

Qualification Regulation:
Recital 34

When considering whether applicants can be reasonably expected to settle in another part of their country of origin, the determining authority should also take into account whether applicants would be able to cater for their own basic needs in relation to access to food, hygiene and shelter in the context of local circumstances in their […]

Qualification Regulation:
Recital 50

For the purpose of assessing serious harm which could qualify applicants as persons eligible for subsidiary protection, the notion of indiscriminate violence should include violence that might extend to people irrespective of their personal circumstances.

Qualification Regulation:
Recital 66

In order to ensure that beneficiaries of international protection respect the authorised period of stay or residence in accordance with the relevant national, Union or international law, Council (18) should be amended to provide that the five-year period after which beneficiaries of international protection are eligible for Union long-term resident status should, in principle, be […]

Reception Directive:
Recital 4

In its communication of 6 April 2016‘Towards a Reform of the Common European Asylum System and Enhancing Legal Avenues to Europe’, the Commission underlined the need for strengthening and harmonising further the . It also set out priority areas where the should be structurally improved, namely the establishment of a sustainable and fair system for […]

Reception Directive:
Recital 20

Where there is a risk that an applicant may abscond or where it is necessary to ensure that restrictions to an applicant’s freedom of movement are respected, Member States could require applicants to report to the competent authorities at a specified time or at reasonable intervals, without disproportionately affecting the rights of applicants under this […]

Reception Directive:
Recital 36

Member States should be able to resort to temporary housing solutions of a lower standard where the normally available housing capacities are temporarily exhausted. Member States should also be able to resort to those temporary housing solutions where, due to a disproportionate number of persons to be accommodated or a man-made or natural disaster, the […]

Reception Directive:
Recital 52

In order to increase integration prospects and self-sufficiency of applicants, earlier access to the labour market is encouraged where the application is likely to be well-founded, including when its examination has been prioritised in accordance with . Member States should therefore consider reducing that time period as much as possible in cases where the application […]

Reception Directive:
Recital 68

Member States should have the power to introduce or maintain more favourable provisions for third-country nationals and stateless persons who ask for international protection from a Member State.

Resettlement and Humanitarian Admission Regulation:
Recital 7

On 15 December 2015, the Commission addressed a Recommendation for a voluntary humanitarian admission scheme with Turkey to the Member States and associated States, recommending that participating States admit persons displaced by the conflict in Syria who are in need of international protection.

Resettlement and Humanitarian Admission Regulation:
Recital 23

An admission procedure should be concluded as soon as possible, while ensuring that Member States have sufficient time for an adequate examination of each case. Member States should make every effort to ensure that a third-country national or stateless person in relation to whom a positive conclusion on admission was reached enters their territory no […]