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Chapter V - Resettlement in Europe: Rising Slowly but Surely
EASO objectives for 2013 in the area
of resettlement are:
• organising exchange of information
and best practices on resettlement
and on the implementation of
Regional Protection Programmes
(RPPs);
• defining methodologies and tools
for EASO support for the implementation
of the Joint EU Resettlement
Programme; and
• organising one expert meeting on
resettlement, engaging Member
States, the European Commission,
UNHCR, IOM and ‘other relevant
partners’. 72
9. RESETTLEMENT IN
EUROPE BEYOND 2013
9.1. Asylum & Migration Fund
2014-20
EU resettlement policy post-2013 is
being negotiated within the framework
of the proposed Asylum and Migration
Fund (AMF) 2014-2020. 73
In November 2011, the Commission
issued a proposal for a regulation
establishing the AMF for the period
2014-2020. 74 The AMF brings together
72 Ibid.
73 Article 7, Proposal for a regulation of the European
Parliament and the Council establishing the Asylum
and Migration Fund, 15 November 2011
74 European Commission, Proposal for a Regulation of
the European Parliament and of the Council establishing
the Asylum and Migration Fund, COM(2011)
751 final, 15 November 2011
European funds related to asylum,
migration, return, and the integration
of third-country nationals, including
the European Refugee Fund (ERF)
and the European Integration Fund
(EIF). Within the proposed AMF
framework, 75 the aims of the EU
resettlement programme are defined
as:
• providing durable solutions for
an increased number of refugees
by supporting their transfer from
outside EU territory and their estatblishment
in an EU Member State;
and
• maximising the strategic impact
of resettlement through a better
targeting of those persons who are
in greatest need of resettlement
on the basis of common EU resettlement
priorities. 76
In the Commission’s proposal, 77 funding
would be allocated in two phases:
75 European Commission, Communication from
the Commission to the European Parliament,
the Council, the European Economic and Social
Committee and the Committee of the Regions,
Building an open and secure Europe: the home
affairs budget for 2014-2020, 15 November 2011
76 Communication from the Commission to the
European Parliament, the Council, the European
Economic and Social Committee and the Committee
of the Regions, Building an open and secure
Europe: the home affairs budget for 2014-2020, 15
November 2011
77 European Commission, Proposal for a Regulation of
the European Parliament and of the Council establishing
the Asylum and Migration Fund, COM(2011)
751 final, 15 November 2011