Asylum: Eurodac system for the comparison of fingerprints of third-country nationals or stateless applicants; requests for comparison with Eurodac data. Recast

The Council was informed about the state of play of two legislative proposals outstanding in relation to the Common European Asylum System (CEAS), namely:

• the proposal on the asylum procedures directive;
• the present proposal on the Eurodac regulation.

Both files have entered into the final phase of negotiations with the European Parliament.

In the case of the Eurodac regulation, issues that remain to the resolved in the negotiations relate to the modalities of access to Eurodac data by law enforcement authorities.