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The admission to a Member State territory, following a referral from the UNHCR, of a third-country national or stateless person from a third country to which they have been displaced, who is granted international protection. [defined in Article 2 of the Resettlement and Humanitarian Admission Regulation]
In order to contribute to increasing resettlement and humanitarian admission efforts and reduce divergences among the national resettlement practices and procedures, a common procedure together with common eligibility criteria and grounds for refusal of admission should be laid down, as well as common principles regarding the status to be granted to persons admitted.
Complementarity with ongoing resettlement and humanitarian admission initiatives undertaken in the Union framework should be ensured.
Where a hit is received by a Member State from Eurodac that can assist that Member State in carrying out its obligations necessary for the application of the grounds for refusing admission under , the Member State of origin which had previously refused to admit a third-country national or a stateless person should promptly exchange […]
The common admission procedure should build on the existing resettlement and humanitarian admission experience and standards of the Member States and, if applicable, of the .
1. This Regulation: (a) establishes a Union Resettlement and Humanitarian Admission Framework (the ‘Union Framework’) for the admission of third-country nationals or stateless persons to the territory of the Member States with a view to granting them, in accordance with this Regulation: (i) international protection; or (ii) humanitarian status under national law which provides for […]
Transfers of personal data obtained by a Member State or Europol pursuant to this Regulation from Eurodac to any third country or international organisation or private entity established in or outside the Union should be prohibited in order to ensure the right to asylum and to safeguard persons whose data are processed under this Regulation […]
An admission procedure consists of the following stages: referral, where applicable, identification, registration, assessment and a conclusion on admission, as well as, in the case of resettlement, a decision on granting international protection or, in the case of humanitarian admission, a decision on granting international protection or humanitarian status under national law.
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) […]
1. For the purposes of this Regulation: (a) ‘applicant for international protection’ means a third-country national or a stateless person who has made an application for international protection as defined in Article 3, point (7), of in respect of which a final decision has not yet been taken; (b) ‘person registered for the purpose of […]
A positive conclusion on admission means that a person in relation to whom an admission procedure has been carried out for the purpose of resettlement or humanitarian admission has been accepted for admission by the Member State that reached that conclusion. A negative conclusion on admission means that such a person has not been accepted […]
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