pre-accession aid [ Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance | Instrument for Structural Policies for Pre-Accession | IPA | ISPA | Phare | pre-accession assistance | Pre-Accession Instrument | Sapard ]

Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance | Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (2014-2020) | IPA II [Abbr.]

return assistance benefits | return assistance services

return assistance | return and reintegration assistance

pre-accession aid | pre-accession assistance | pre-accession funding

financial return assistance

support flight check activities | support flight checks to ensure safety of aircraft | assist in the conducting of flight checks | assist in the performance of in-flight and pre-flight checks

Increased financial support to Member States with €200 million in 2017 for national return efforts as well as for specific joint European return and reintegration activities; Improving information exchange to enforce return by collecting real time information at national level and sharing it using the existing Integrated Return Management Application, as well as speeding up work on adopting the proposals to reform the Schengen Information System and Eurodac and to establish an EU Entry-Exit System (EES) and a European Travel Information System (ETIAS); Exchanging best practices to ensure reintegration packages are consistent and coherent among all Member States to avoid countries of origin favouring returns from countries offering higher ...[+++]reintegration packages or assisted-voluntary return-shopping by irregular migrants; Offering full support to Member States by the European Border and Coast Guard Agency with the Agency called on to step up pre-return assistance, increase its return support unit staff and set up a commercial flight mechanism for financing returns by June, as well as step up the training of third country authorities on return by October; Overcoming the challenges of readmission by working to swiftly conclude the negotiations of Readmission Agreements with Nigeria, Tunisia and Jordan and striving to engage with Morocco and Algeria. Within the Partnership Framework, employ collective leverage in a coordinated and effective manner through tailor-made approaches with third countries to jointly manage migration and further improve cooperation on return and readmission (see also today's report on the implementation of the Partnership Framework: IP/17/402).

Apply to Frontex for the coordination and financial support available still this year for joint return flights and pre-return assistance.

- Additionally in the case of voluntary return: comprehensive pre-return information, assistance and counselling as well as essential expenses before return and initial expenses after return, transport of the returnee’s personal belongings, adequate temporary accommodation for the first days after arrival in the country of return in a reception centre or a hotel if necessary, training and employment assistance and limited start-up support for economic activities where appropriate.

- In all cases of return pre-return information, procurement of indispensable travel documents, costs of necessary pre-return medical checks, costs of travel and food for returnees and escorts, including medical staff, accommodation for escorts, specific assistance to vulnerable groups such as children or people with disabilities, costs of transportation to the final destination in the country of return and co-operation with the authorities of the country of origin, former residence or transit.