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Resettlement and Humanitarian Admission Regulation:
Article 2 – Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions apply:

(1) ‘resettlement’ means the admission to the territory of a Member State, following a referral from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), of a third-country national or a stateless person, from a third country to which that person has been displaced, who:

(a) is eligible for admission pursuant to Article 5(1);

(b) does not fall under the grounds for refusal set out in Article 6; and

(c) is granted international protection in accordance with Union and national law and has access to a durable solution;

(2) ‘international protection’ means international protection as defined in Article 3, point (3), of Regulation (EU) 2024/1347 Qualification Regulation;

(3) ‘humanitarian admission’ means the admission to the territory of a Member State, following, where requested by a Member State, a referral from the European Union Agency for Asylum (the ‘Asylum Agency’), from the UNHCRUnited Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, or from another relevant international body, of a third-country national or a stateless person from a third country to which that person has been forcibly displaced and, at least on the basis of an initial evaluation, who:

(a) is eligible for admission pursuant to Article 5(2);

(b) does not fall under the grounds for refusal set out in Article 6; and

(c) is granted international protection in accordance with Article 9(17) of this Regulation or humanitarian status under national law, which provides for rights and obligations equivalent to those established in Article 20 to 26 and 28 to 35 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1347 Qualification Regulation for beneficiaries of subsidiary protection;

(4) ‘emergency admission’ means the admission by means of resettlement or humanitarian admission of persons with urgent legal or physical protection needs or with immediate medical needs.


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Absconding Accelerated Examination Procedure Adequate capacity Annual Solidarity Pool Asylum Border Procedure Beneficiary of temporary protection Best Interests of the Child Biometric data Common Identity Repository (CIR) Crisis/Force Majeure Detention Determining authority Effective Remedy Eurodac Facial image data Family members Fingerprint data Hit Humanitarian admission Identification Identity data Illegal stay Mandatory Solidarity Member State Responsible Migratory pressure Minor Non-Refoulement Refugee status Relocation Remain in the Member State Representative Resettlement Return Border Procedure Safe Country of Origin Safe Third Country Search and rescue operation Secondary Movement Special procedural guarantees Special reception needs Stateless person Subsequent application Subsidiary protection status Transfer Unaccompanied minor Visa

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