Special reception needs – Page 2 – EU Migration Pact information

Crisis and Force Majeure Regulation:
Recital 41

Where derogations from the asylum procedure are applied, the safeguards for applicants with special procedural and special reception needs, including medical conditions, should be a primary consideration for the competent authorities. For that reason, the Member State facing a situation of crisis or force majeure should not apply, or should cease to apply, the derogations […]

Reception Directive:
Article 19 – General rules on material reception conditions and health care

1. Member States shall ensure that material reception conditions are available to applicants from the moment they make their application for international protection in accordance with Article 26 of . 2. Member States shall ensure that material reception conditions and health care received in accordance with Article 22 provide an adequate standard of living for […]

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 […]

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) […]

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 […]

Reception Directive:
Article 24 – Applicants with special reception needs

Member States shall take into account the specific situation of applicants with special reception needs. Member States shall take into consideration the fact that certain applicants such as those falling within any of the following categories, are more likely to have special reception needs: (a) minors; (b) unaccompanied minors; (c) persons with disabilities; (d) elderly […]

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 […]

Reception Directive:
Article 25 – Assessment of special reception needs

1. In order to effectively implement Article 24, Member States shall, as early as possible after an application for international protection is made, individually assess whether the applicant has special reception needs, using oral translation where necessary. The assessment referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph may be integrated into existing national procedures […]

Procedures Regulation:
Article 53 – Exceptions to the asylum border procedure

1. The border procedure shall be applied to unaccompanied minors only in the circumstances referred to in Article 42(3), point (b). Where there is doubt as to the applicant’s age, the competent authorities shall promptly carry out an age assessment in accordance with Article 25. 2. Member States shall not apply or shall cease to […]

Reception Directive:
Article 28 – Victims of torture and violence

1. Member States shall ensure that persons who have been subjected to trafficking in human beings, torture, rape or other serious acts of psychological, physical or sexual violence, including violence committed with a sexual, gender, racist or religious motive, are provided with necessary medical and psychological treatment and care, including rehabilitation services and counselling where […]