Common European Asylum System in a Changing World

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2016/0133 (COD)

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)

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CHAPTER VII Corrective allocation mechanism Article 34 General Principle

1. The allocation mechanism referred to in this Chapter shall be applied for the benefit of a Member State, where that Member State is confronted with a disproportionate number of applications for international protection for which it is the Member State responsible under this Regulation. 2. Paragraph 1 applies where the automated system indicates that the number of applications for international protection for which a Member State is responsible is higher than 150% of the reference number for that Member State as determined by the key referred to in Article 35. … 4. The automated system shall informMember States, the Commission and the European Union Agency for Asylum once per week of the Member States’ respective shares in applications for which they are the Member State responsible. 5. The automated system shall continously monitor whether any of the Member States is above the threshold referred to in paragraph 2, and if so, notify the Member States and the Commission of this fact, indicating the number of applications above this threshold. 6. Upon the notification referred to in paragraph 5, the allocation mechanism shall apply. Article 35 Reference key 1. For the purpose of the corrective mechanism, the reference number for each Member State shall be determined by a key.

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