International protection: criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an application lodged by a third-country national or a stateless person. Recast

The Council was informed in a public session about the state-of-play of negotiations on the various outstanding legislative proposals concerning the Common European Asylum System (CEAS), on the basis of a paper prepared by the Cypriot Presidency.

One of these proposals relates to the recast of the Dublin Regulation. Negotiations between the Council and the European Parliament on the substance of the Dublin regulation have been finalised. The only outstanding issue is related to the comitology procedure, i.e. whether to use delegated or implementing acts.

It should be noted that, at its meeting of 19 September, Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Internal Affairs (LIBE) came out in favour of this overall compromise. On 10 October 2012, the Permanent Representatives Committee (COREPER) agreed on a mandate to start negotiations with representatives of the European Parliament on the remaining provisions related to delegated acts and implementing acts.

On the basis of this mandate, the Presidency will engage in trilogues with the European Parliament with a view to reaching an agreement on the entire recast of the Dublin Regulation by the end of the year. The first technical meeting on this issue with the European Parliament was held on 12 October 2012.