Common European Asylum System in a Changing World

national or a stateless person], for identifying an illegally staying third-country national or stateless person and on requests for the comparison with Eurodac data by Member States’ law enforcement authorities and Europol for law enforcement purposes (recast), COM/2016/0272 final/2 – the Recast Eurodac Regulation ; • Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Union Agency for Asylum and repealing Regulation (EU) No 439/2010, COM/2016/0271 final – the Asylum Agency Regulation . Second, on 13 July 2016 , the Commission proposed the following acts: • Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a common procedure for international protection in the Union and repealing Directive 2013/32/EU, COM/2016/0467 final – the Asylum Procedures Regulation ; • Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection, for a uniform status for refugees or for persons eligible for subsidiary protection and for the content of the protection granted and amending Council Directive 2003/109/EC of 25 November 2003 concerning the status of third-country nationals who are long-term residents; • COM/2016/0466 final – the Qualification Regulation ; • Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down standards for the reception of applicants for international protection (recast), COM/2016/0465 final – the Recast Reception Conditions Directive ; • Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a Union Resettlement Framework and amending Regulation (EU) No 516/2014 of the European Parliament and the Council, COM/2016/0468 final – the Resettlement Framework Regulation . The Commission submitted the proposals to the European Parliament and the Council during the 8 th parliamentary term (2014-2019), reforming basically the whole CEAS . The reform concerns crucial legislation which constitutes the core of the CEAS : the Dublin III Regulation, the Asylum Procedures Directive, the Qualification Directive, and the Reception Conditions Directive. It does not concern the Temporary Protection Directive adopted in 2001 which was not affected even by the second-phase harmonisation because the Temporary Protection Directive has not been applied in the EU. 4.3.4 Difficulties of the third phase of building CEAS The Union bodies chose a “package approach” to the reform of the CEAS which means that no proposal is adopted before an agreement is reached on all proposals. Due to this approach, none of the proposals have been adopted for the time being (January 2020). In particular, the proposals for theDublin IVRegulation and the AsylumProcedures Regulation remain controversial which prevented the Council fromadopting a negotiating mandate for the trilogue negotiations. 2 The Dublin IV Regulation is contentious on the 2 Trilogues are informal direct negotiations between a limited number of representatives of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission who meet usually shortly after the Commission initiated the ordinary legislative procedure. The representatives try to reach an agreement on the wording of the proposed

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