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 Reception Conditions Directive on which a political agreement has been reached. This political agreement was adopted at the Council without discussion. It fully reflects the result of negotiations with the European Parliament.
Once the text has been revised by its lawyer-linguists, the Council can adopt its first reading position at a forthcoming Council. Subsequently, Council's position at first reading will be communicated to the European Parliament with a view to approval without amendments in second reading.
Once formally adopted by both co-legislators, Member States will need to transpose the new provisions into national law within two years.
Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom are not bound by the Directive.