Common European Asylum System in a Changing World

would be activated automatically in cases when Member States would have to deal with a disproportionate number of asylum seekers. It is not surprising that allocation mechanism is not supported by all members of the Council and the Council has not reached agreement on this issue so far. 4.3.2 European Agenda on Migration In the European Agenda on Migration issued in May 2015, i.e. at the beginning of the migration crisis, the Commission stressed the priority to ensure a full and coherent implementation of the CEAS. The transposition and implementation of recently adopted second-phase legislation on asylum should be enforced by means of infringement procedure. The Commission also presented its idea of the completion of the CEAS , including the common Asylum Code, mutual recognition of asylum decisions, and a single asylum decision process in order to guarantee equal treatment of asylum seekers throughout Europe. It did not have an the idea to reform the whole system. However, its position later changed and in April 2016 , it published a communication named “Towards a reform of the Common European Asylum System and enhancing legal avenues to Europe” . The Commission states among others that the current CEAS is characterised by differing treatment of asylum seekers , the length of asylum procedures or reception conditions across Member States, which encourages secondary movements. Such divergences result in part from the often discretionary provisions contained in the second-phase legislation. Therefore, it introduces five priorities: 1. Establishing a sustainable and fair system for determining the Member State responsible for asylum seekers (revision of the Dublin III Regulation); 2. Reinforcing the Eurodac system; 3. Achieving greater convergence in the EU asylum system (new Asylum Procedures Regulation, new Qualification Regulation, modifications of the Reception Conditions Directive); 4.3.3 New legislation package Subsequently, the Commission put forward a package comprising seven pieces of draft legislation on asylum. First, on 4 May 2016 , it proposed the following acts: • Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an application for international protection lodged in one of the Member States by a third-country national or a stateless person (recast), COM/2016/0270 final – the Dublin IV Regulation; • Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the establishment of ‘Eurodac’ for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of [Regulation (EU) No 604/2013 establishing the criteria andmechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an application for international protection lodged in one of the Member States by a third-country 4. Preventing secondary movements within the EU; 5. A new mandate for the EU’s asylum Agency.

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