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Screening regulation, amended proposal revising the asylum procedures regulation and the amended proposal revising the Eurodac regulation

Rengiamos (updated on 20/02/2021)
Nuoroda: 
SOC/670-EESC-2020
Referral: 
COM(2020) 611 final 2016/0224 CODCOM(2020) 612 final 2020/0278 CODCOM(2020) 612 final 2020/0278 CODCOM(2020) 614 final 2016/0132 CODCOM(2020) 614 final 2016/0132 COD
Rapporteur: 
Panagiotis GKOFAS (Diversity Europe - GR III / Greece)
Plenarinė sesija: 
558 -
Feb 24, 2021 Feb 25, 2021

This opinion will focus on three of the nine instruments contained in the New Pact on Migration and Asylum released by the European Commission in November 2020. The opinion deals with: i) the new screening regulation; ii) the amended proposal revising the asylum procedures regulation; iii) the amended proposal for a recast Eurodac regulation. The EESC believes that the new regulations make a positive contribution to more effective EU border security. Nevertheless the EESC questions the effective implementation of the proposed new procedures and underlines that the effectiveness of the need to be constantly measured through systems monitoring respect for fundamental rights, particularly as regards the rights of vulnerable people.

Asylum and migration management regulation and crisis and force majeure regulation

Rengiamos (updated on 19/02/2021)
Nuoroda: 
SOC/669-EESC-2020
Referral: 
COM(2020) 610 final 2020/0279 CODCOM(2020) 610 final 2020/0279 CODCOM(2020) 613 final 2020/0277 COD
Rapporteur: 
Dimitris DIMITRIADIS (Employers - GR I / Greece)
Plenarinė sesija: 
558 -
Feb 24, 2021 Feb 25, 2021

The EESC stresses that ensuring balance in dealing with asylum applications should not have to be the responsibility of individual Member States alone, but should be managed by the EU as a whole. It recognises the importance of the proposals having the legal status of a regulation – as opposed to a Directive. The EESC is pleased that the regulations invoke the principles of solidarity and fair sharing of responsibility, but this burden is not sufficiently balanced. Solidarity needs to be binding, in the form of mandatory relocations.

A New Pact on Migration and Asylum

Priimtos on 27/01/2021
Nuoroda: 
SOC/649-EESC-2020
Referral: 
COM(2020) 609 final COM(2020) 609 final
Rapporteur: 
José Antonio MORENO DÍAZ (Workers - GR II / Spain)
Co-rapporteur: 
Cristian PÎRVULESCU (Diversity Europe - GR III/Romania)
Plenarinė sesija: 
557 -
Jan 27, 2021 Jan 28, 2021

In this opinion, the EESC stresses that the EU needs to strike the right balance between effective and realistic migration management that is humane and sustainable, while ensuring security and control of its external borders. It must send a clear message that migration can be better managed collectively. It notes that the proposals accompanying the PMA are important but insufficient for the development of the common European framework for migration management, which would be both effective and in line with the EU's values and objectives.

EESRK nuomonė: A New Pact on Migration and Asylum

Diversity management in the EU Member States (Exploratory opinion at the request of the German presidency)

Priimtos on 29/10/2020
Nuoroda: 
SOC/642-EESC-2020
Rapporteur: 
Adam ROGALEWSKI (Poland)
Plenarinė sesija: 
555 -
Oct 27, 2020 Oct 29, 2020

This opinion, requested by the German Presidency of the Council, makes the following main recommendations:
- data collection and monitoring of diversity policies in the labour market must be improved at all levels;
- the principles of diversity management must be integrated into EU rules and generalised;
- more funds should be allocated to diversity management, in order to support the work of civil society organisations working with racialized groups and the diversity policies put in place by the social partners;
- to tackle the underutilisation of migrants' skills and increase their participation in the labour market, these need to be further recognised. In addition, migrants should benefit from free and universal training, including language courses;
- migrants should be active, not only in the labour market, but also in politics;

EESRK nuomonė: Diversity management in the EU Member States (Exploratory opinion at the request of the German presidency)

Investor Citizenship and Residence Schemes in the European Union

Priimtos on 30/10/2019
Nuoroda: 
SOC/618-EESC-2019
Referral: 
COM(2019) 12 final
Rapporteur: 
Jean-Marc ROIRANT (France)

The EESC echoes the European Parliament's call to phase out all investor schemes and recommends that until then certain mitigation measures are put in place. Member States should be urged to apply a due diligence process without specific duration restrictions and adapted to the high-risk profile of applicants. A coordination mechanism should allow Member States to exchange information on successful and rejected applications for citizenship and residence permits. All agents and intermediaries providing services to applicants should be subject to anti-money-laundering rules as set out in the Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive. The EU should encourage all agents providing services to applicants to be accredited and subject to a code of conduct. Authorities should maintain primary responsibility for accepting or rejecting applicants. Authorities must also maintain a set of measures to avoid conflicts of interest or bribery risks.

EESRK nuomonė: Investor Citizenship and Residence Schemes in the European Union

Towards a coherent EU labour immigration policy with regard to the EU Blue Card

Priimtos on 14/12/2016
Nuoroda: 
SOC/539-EESC-2016-02508-00-00-ac
Referral: 
COM(2016) 378 final 2016/0176 COD
Rapporteur: 
Peter CLEVER (Employers - GR I / Germany)

The opinion welcomes the revision of the Blue Card, since it makes the card more attractive as a way of entering the EU.

However, the Committee considers that Commission's proposal to replace parallel national schemes with a single EU-wide scheme goes too far, and prefers that Member States maintain their own routes for admitting highly qualified workers alongside the EU Blue Card.

The opinion agrees with the measures to facilitate granting of the card, but expresses scepticism about the application of lower salary thresholds.

Finally the opinion recalls that equal opportunities and non-discrimination must be guaranteed in the employing of third-county nationals and that close involvement of national and European social partners is needed in this field.

 

EESRK nuomonė: Towards a coherent EU labour immigration policy with regard to the EU Blue Card

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