Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council – Annual Report on Immigration and Asylum (2010)

The development of a forward-looking and comprehensive European migration policy, based on solidarity and responsibility, is a fundamental policy objective for the European Union.

The Commission presented on 4 May 2011 a Communication on Migration. The purpose of that Communication was to set recent and future policy proposals in a framework that takes account of all relevant aspects and allows the EU and its Member States to manage asylum, migration and mobility of third-country nationals in a comprehensive and coherent manner.

The present Annual Report is presented in response to the request made by the European Council when adopting the 2008 Pact on Immigration and Asylum and covers the developments during 2010 in the implementation of the Pact and the relevant priorities of the Stockholm Programme adopted in 2009, both at the EU and the national level. The report has been prepared on the basis of Member States' contributions and other information, in particular reports from the National Contact Points (NCPs) of the European Migration Network (EMN).

The report summarises and assesses developments at the EU and the national level, and puts forward recommendations for future action.

EUR-Lex: COM(2011)291: Follow the progress of this document through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2011:291:FIN

European Commission: SEC(2011)620: Accompanying document http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=SEC:2011:0620:FIN:EN:PDF

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