EUU, Alm.del - 2016-17 - Bilag 326: Invitation til interparlamentarisk møde om den tredje reform af det fælles europæiske asylsystem d. 28/2-17

Europaudvalget 2016-17
EUU Alm.del Bilag 326
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

The Chair

To the Chairperson(s) of the committee(s) concerned

Honourable Chairperson,

The reform of the Union acquis on asylum, is currently under way by means of eight

Commission proposals amending existing or establishing new legislative instruments.

While the reform has been triggered by the large influx of asylum seekers and migrants

last year, it also aims at further developing the Common European Asylum System as

set out in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. For all those reasons,

the reform is crucial. Relevant work has already started within the Committee on Civil

Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), as responsible Committee on all these files,

with key decisions planned to be taken during spring 2017.

Against this background, the LIBE Committee would like to invite Members of national

Parliaments to an Interparliamentary Committee Meeting on "The Third Reform of the

Common European Asylum System - Up for the Challenge". Indeed, the success of

restructuring the Common European Asylum System and standing up to the relevant

challenges, requires the participation of the Union and national legislators at all levels,

from the conception through to the implementation stage.

The meeting is scheduled for Tuesday 28 February 2017 from 09h00 to 18h30 in the

European Parliament in Brussels (please see the draft programme attached - Annex I).

I am therefore pleased to invite up to four Members of the relevant committee(s) from

each national Parliament (two from each Chamber in the case of bi-cameral

Parliaments) to attend this meeting.

Key issues such as a fair distribution of asylum seekers among Member States, the

concepts of safe country of origin and safe third country, combatting human trafficking

and protecting children in migration, will be on the agenda of the day. National

authorities, academics and civil society active in the field will be present to provide

expert input for the relevant discussions.

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EUU, Alm.del - 2016-17 - Bilag 326: Invitation til interparlamentarisk møde om den tredje reform af det fælles europæiske asylsystem d. 28/2-17

Please note that, at the beginning of the afternoon session, three parallel Workshops

will take place. The practical arrangements and deadlines for written contributions to

these Workshops are set out in Annex II to this letter, which I would invite you to

consult.

Should you be unable to attend, I would welcome any written contribution which would

be distributed to our respective Members and other participants.

Practical details regarding the meeting will be forwarded in due course to the services

of your Parliament, responsible for relations with the European Parliament.

I sincerely hope that you will be able to accept this invitation and I am looking forward

to welcoming you to the European Parliament on 28 February 2016.

Yours sincerely,

Claude MORAES

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