Presskonferens om asyl- och migrationshantering samt asylförfaranden

At the occasion of the presentation of their reports on the legislative proposals on asylum and migration management and asylum procedures in the Civil Liberties Committee, Tomas Tobé and Fabienne Keller, rapporteurs, will present their 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,

and

• Ms Keller (Renew, FR) is the rapporteur the amended Asylum procedures and her proposed amendments to the 2020 Commission proposal establishing a common procedure for international protection can be found in the draft report and are further explained in a working document.

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