1. The Commission shall adopt a European Annual Asylum and Migration Report on an annual basis assessing the asylum, reception and migratory situation over the previous 12-month period and any possible developments, and providing a strategic situational picture of the area of migration and asylum that also serves as an early warning and awareness tool for the Union (the ‘Report’).
2. The Report shall be based on relevant quantitative and qualitative data and information provided by the Member States, the European External Action Service, the Asylum Agency, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, Europol and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. It may also take into account information provided by other relevant bodies, offices, agencies or organisations.
3. The Report shall contain the following elements:
(a) an assessment of the overall situation, covering all migratory routes to the Union and in all the Member States, in particular:
(i) the number of applications for international protection and the nationalities of the applicants;
(ii) the number of identified unaccompanied minors and where available, persons with special reception or procedural needs;
(iii) the number of third-country nationals or stateless persons who have been granted international protection, in accordance with ;
(iv) the number of first instance and final asylum decisions;
(v) the reception capacity of the Member States;
(vi) the number of third-country nationals who have been detected by Member States authorities while not fulfilling or no longer fulfilling the conditions for entry, stay or residence in the Member State, including overstayers as defined in Article 3(1), point (19), of of the European Parliament and of the Council (34) ;
(vii) the number of return decisions issued by the Member States and the number of third-country nationals who left the territory of the Member States in accordance with a return decision that complies with ;
(viii) the number of third-country nationals or stateless persons admitted by the Member States through Union and national resettlement or humanitarian admission schemes;
(ix) the number of third-country nationals subject to the border procedure provided for in Regulations (EU) and (EU) 2024/1349 as well as their nationalities;
(x) the number of incoming and outgoing take charge requests or take back notifications in accordance with Articles 39 and 41;
(xi) the number of transfer decisions and the numbers of transfers carried out in accordance with this Regulation;
(xii) the number and nationality of third-country nationals disembarked following search and rescue operations, and the number of applications for international protection lodged by those third-country nationals;
(xiii) the Member States which experienced recurring arrivals by sea, in particular through disembarkations following search and rescue operations;
(xiv) the number of third-country nationals or stateless persons refused entry in accordance with Article 14 of ;
(xv) the number of third-country nationals or stateless persons enjoying temporary protection in accordance with Council (35) ;
(xvi) the number of persons apprehended in connection with an irregular crossing of an external land, sea or air border and, provided that the data is available and verifiable, the number of attempted irregular border crossings;
(xvii) the support provided by Union bodies, offices and agencies to the Member States;
(b) a projection for the coming year, including the number of anticipated arrivals by sea, based on the overall migratory situation in the previous year and considering the current situation, while also reflecting previous pressure;
(c) information about the level of preparedness in the Union and in the Member States and the possible impact of the anticipated situations;
(d) information on the capacity of the Member States, in particular on the reception capacity;
(e) the result of the monitoring undertaken by the Asylum Agency and the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, and the evaluation carried out in accordance with as well as the monitoring carried out in accordance with Article 10 of , as referred to in Article 7(1), second subparagraph, point (c), of this Regulation;
(f) an assessment of whether solidarity measures and measures under the Permanent EU Migration Toolbox are needed to support the Member State or Member States concerned.
4. The Commission shall adopt the Report by 15 October each year and transmit it to the European Parliament and to the Council.
5. The Report shall provide the basis for decisions at Union level on the measures needed for the management of migratory situations.
6. The first Report shall be issued by 15 October 2025.
7. For the purposes of the Report, the Member States, the Asylum Agency, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, Europol and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights shall provide the information referred to in Article 10 by 1 June each year.
8. The Commission shall convene a meeting of the EU mechanism for preparedness and management of crisis related to migration during the first half of July each year to present the initial assessment of the situation and exchange information with members of that mechanism. The composition and mode of operation of the EU mechanism for preparedness and management of crisis related to migration shall be as set out in in its original version.
9. The Member States and the relevant Union bodies, offices and agencies shall provide the Commission with updated information by 1 September each year.
10. The Commission shall convene a meeting of the EU mechanism for preparedness and management of crisis related to migration by 30 September each year to present the consolidated assessment of the situation. The composition and mode of operation of the EU mechanism for preparedness and management of crisis related to migration shall be as set out in in its original version.
34. Regulation (EU) 2017/2226 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2017 establishing an Entry/Exit System (EES) to register entry and exit data and refusal of entry data of third-country nationals crossing the external borders of the Member States and determining the conditions for access to the EES for law enforcement purposes, and amending the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement and Regulations (EC) No 767/2008 and (EU) No 1077/2011 (OJ L 327, 9.12.2017, p. 20). ↩︎
35. Council Directive 2001/55/EC of 20 July 2001 on minimum standards for giving temporary protection in the event of a mass influx of displaced persons and on measures promoting a balance of efforts between Member States in receiving such persons and bearing the consequences thereof (OJ L 212, 7.8.2001, p. 12). ↩︎