On 20 December 2023, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union reached an agreement on the core political elements of five key regulations of the Pact on Migration and Asylum: the Asylum Procedure Regulation (APR), the Asylum and Migration Management Regulation (AMMR), The Screening Regulation, the Eurodac Regulation and the Crisis and Force majeure Regulation.

Today, the permanent representatives of the EU Member States meeting in the Coreper approved all files of the Migration and Asylum Pact, with a few changes from the original ones. 

The Coreper approved the five above-mentioned EU laws. It also endorsed three other asylum and migration laws on which the Council and the Parliament already reached an agreement in 2022. It concerns a revision of the Reception Conditions Directive, an update of the Qualification Regulation and a Regulation establishing an EU resettlement framework. A Return Border Regulation was also approved which allows the Pact to apply to those European countries with differing Schengen rules.

Now, the European Parliament and the Council must formally approve the files. It is anticipated that the reform will be concluded before the 2024 European elections, in accordance with the prior agreement of the co-legislators.

For further information, please read the press release of the Council of the European Union.
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