Accommodation centre – EU Migration Pact information

Reception Directive:
Recital 17

Member States should be able to freely organise their reception systems. As part of that organisation, Member States should be able to allocate applicants to accommodation within their territory in order to manage their asylum and reception systems. Member States should also be able to put in place mechanisms for assessing and addressing the needs […]

Reception Directive:
Recital 19

For reasons of public order or in order to effectively prevent the applicant from absconding, Member States should be able to decide that the applicant is allowed to reside only in a specific place, such as an accommodation centre, a private house, flat, hotel or other premises adapted for housing applicants. Such decision should not […]

Reception Directive:
Recital 37

The reception of persons with special reception needs should be a primary concern for national authorities in order to ensure that such reception is specifically designed to meet their special reception needs. Member States should also ensure, as far as possible, the prevention of assault and violence, including violence committed with a sexual, gender, racist […]

Reception Directive:
Recital 63

It is possible for Member States to apply other penalties, including disciplinary measures in accordance with the rules of the accommodation centre, in as far as those penalties are not contrary to this Directive.

Reception Directive:
Article 2 – Definitions

For the purposes of this Directive, the following definitions apply: (1) ‘application for international protection’ or ‘application’ means a request for protection from a Member State made by a third-country national or a stateless person who can be understood to be seeking refugee status or subsidiary protection status; (2) ‘applicant’ means a third-country national or […]

Reception Directive:
Article 7 – Organisation of reception systems

1. Member States may freely organise their reception systems in accordance with this Directive. Applicants may move freely within the territory of the Member State concerned. 2. Provided that all applicants benefit effectively from their rights under this Directive, Member States may allocate applicants to accommodation within their territory in order to manage their asylum […]

Reception Directive:
Article 20 – Arrangements for material reception conditions

1. Where Member States provide housing in kind, they shall ensure that such housing provides the applicant with an adequate standard of living in accordance with Article 19(2) as well as with necessary support to account for applicants’ special reception needs. The housing provided shall take one or a combination of the following forms: (a) […]

Reception Directive:
Article 23 – Reduction or withdrawal of material reception conditions

1. With regard to applicants who are required to be present on their territory in accordance with Article 17(4) of , Member States may reduce or withdraw the daily expenses allowance. If duly justified and proportionate, Member States may also: (a) reduce other material reception conditions, or (b) where paragraph 2, point (e), applies, withdraw […]