Påminnelse: Presskonferens om asyl- och migrationshantering

At the occasion of the presentation of the report on the legislative proposals on asylum and migration management in the Civil Liberties Committee, Tomas Tobé, rapporteur, will present his draft amendments to media.

When: Tuesday 26 October at 14:30.

Where: European Parliament (Brussels), Anna Politkovskaya press room (SPAAK 0A50) and via Interactio.

You can follow it live via Parliament’s webstreaming and EBS+. Interpretation will be available in English and French. Journalists wishing to actively participate and ask questions, please connect via Interactio: https://broadcaster.interactio.eu/join/66e2-hy1p-1w4u.

The new Pact on Asylum and Migration, tabled by the European Commission in September 2020, includes the asylum and migration management regulation, a proposal for a faster asylum border procedure, as well as a pre-entry screening mechanism and proposal for a regulation dealing with crisis and force majeure in the field of migration and asylum:

• Mr Tobé (EPP, SE) is the rapporteur for the Asylum and Migration Management Regulation and his proposed amendments to the Commission proposal can be found in the draft report,

Information for the media

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Further information

Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

Procedure file 2020/0279 (COD)

Procedure file 2016/0224 (COD)

EPRS briefing : Asylum in the EU: Facts and Figures

Legislative train schedule: Towards a new policy on migration