Minor – Page 5 – EU Migration Pact information

Reception Directive:
Article 33 – Staff and resources

1. Member States shall take appropriate measures to ensure that the staff of authorities and other organisations directly responsible for implementing this Directive have received the necessary training with respect to the needs of applicants, including minors. To that end, Member States shall include relevant core parts of the European asylum curriculum related to reception […]

Crisis and Force Majeure Regulation:
Recital 49

In a situation of instrumentalisation and to prevent a third country or a hostile non-state actor from targeting specific nationalities or specific categories of third-country nationals or stateless persons, it should be possible for a Member State to derogate from the asylum procedure set out in this Regulation by taking a decision in the framework […]

Procedures Regulation:
Recital 44

In order to shorten the overall duration of the procedure in certain cases, Member States should have the flexibility, in accordance with their national needs, to prioritise the examination of any application by examining it before other, previously made applications. The prioritisation of examination of applications should be done without derogating from normally applicable procedures, […]

Qualification Regulation:
Recital 15

When applying this Regulation the best interests of the child should be a primary consideration, in accordance with the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. In assessing the best interests of the child, Member States’ authorities should, in particular, take due account of the principle of family unity, and the minor’s […]

Resettlement and Humanitarian Admission Regulation:
Article 5 – Eligibility for admission

1. For the purpose of resettlement, the following third-country nationals or stateless persons shall be eligible for admission, provided that they also fall within at least one of the categories referred to in paragraph 3, point (a): (a) third-country nationals who, owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, […]

Crisis and Force Majeure Regulation:
Article 10 – Registration of applications for international protection in situations of crisis, or force majeure

1. In a situation of crisis or force majeure, by way of derogation from Article 27 of , the Member State facing that situation may register applications made within the period during which this paragraph is applied, no later than four weeks after those applications are made. 2. When applying paragraph 1, the Member State […]

Procedures Regulation:
Recital 61

Pursuant toChapter IV of , Member States providing reception facilities for carrying out the asylum border procedure are under an obligation to take into account the special situation and needs of vulnerable persons, including minors, persons with a disability and elderly people. Consequently, such persons should only be admitted to a border procedure in the […]

Qualification Regulation:
Recital 16

With a view to safeguarding the best interests of the child and the minor’s general well-being, and in order to encourage continuity in assistance and representation for unaccompanied minors, Member States should seek to ensure, in so far as possible, that the same natural person remains responsible for an unaccompanied minor, including during the asylum […]

Resettlement and Humanitarian Admission Regulation:
Article 9 – Admission procedure

1. In the case of resettlement, for the purpose of implementing the Union Plan, Member States shall request the to refer third-country nationals or stateless persons to them. In the case of humanitarian admission, for the purpose of implementing the Union Plan, Member States may request that the Asylum Agency, the , or another relevant […]

Crisis and Force Majeure Regulation:
Article 11 – Measures applicable to the asylum border procedure in a situation of crisis or force majeure

1. In a situation of crisis or force majeure, Member States may, as regards applications made within the period during which this Article is applied, derogate from Article 51(2) of , by extending the maximum duration of the border procedure for the examination of applications set out in that Article by an additional period of […]