Internal Protection Alternative (IPA) – EU Migration Pact information

Procedures Regulation:
Article 34 – Examination of applications

1. The determining authority shall examine and take decisions on applications for international protection in accordance with the basic principles and guarantees set out in Chapter II. 2. The determining authority shall take decisions on applications for international protection after an appropriate examination as to the admissibility or merits of an application. The determining authority […]

Qualification Regulation:
Recital 33

Where the State or agents of the State are not the actors of persecution or serious harm, the determining authority should examine, as part of the assessment of the application for international protection, whether an internal protection alternative exists once it has been established that the qualification criteria set out in this Regulation would otherwise […]

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 35

Where the State or agents of the State are the actors of persecution or serious harm, there should be a presumption that effective protection is not available to the applicant and the determining authority need not examine whether an internal protection alternative exists. The determining authority should be able to examine whether an internal protection […]

Qualification Regulation:
Recital 36

When assessing a sur place application, the fact that the risk of persecution or serious harm is based on circumstances that do not constitute an expression or continuation of convictions or orientations held in the country of origin could serve as an indication that the sole or main purpose of the applicant was to create […]

Qualification Regulation:
Article 8 – Internal protection alternative

1. Where the State or agents of the State are not the actors of persecution or serious harm, the determining authority shall examine, as part of the assessment of the application for international protection, whether an applicant is not in need of international protection because the applicant can safely and legally travel to and gain […]