Relocation and special redistribution procedures , Date: 2019.11.14, format: Article, area: Asylum and refugee protection

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Relocation

Asylum-seekers are re-distributed via the "relocation" procedure from EU Member States whose asylum and reception systems are under particular pressure – as was recently the case in Greece and Italy – to other Member States, where they go through the asylum procedure. This is intended to ensure that asylum-seekers are distributed equitably within Europe. The relocation procedure was contingent on the asylum-seekers coming from countries of origin with regard to which the average recognition rate in the EU is at least 75 %.

The legal basis

The procedures were based on EU Decisions 2015/1523 of 14 September 2015 and 2015/1601 of 22 September 2015. These Decisions have since expired.

Special redistribution procedures ("boat rescues")

Migrants who have been rescued from the sea and were permitted to land in another EU Memer State (currently Malta and Italy) are distributed to one or more EU Member States as part of the redistribution schemes which are also referred to as "boat rescues". This group of individuals are also regarded as asylum-seekers. Germany assumes responsibility for carrying out the national asylum procedure.

The legal basis

The activities are are ordered via a decree, once the individual case has been decided on by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community (BMI), and in the past have been carried out on the basis of Article 17 §2 of EU Regulation No 604/2013 (Dublin III Regulation).