Deployment Recourse Unit

Appeals and Deployment Recourse Directorate

Appeals and Deployment Recourse sector

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 cohere ...[+++]nt 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).

38. Urges the Commission, to set up an Environmental Law Inspection Unit, whose role will be to oversee and assist in the implementation of the environmental legislation; asks that this unit will use new technologies and cooperate with local agencies in order to keep down inspection costs; takes the view that this unit should operate on a cost basis and that the revenues should be directed to the EU budget and should be reserved for services related to better implementation;

48. Recalls the commitment made by Parliament and the Council in the 2005 Interinstitutional Common Approach to Impact Assessment to carry out impact assessments where they consider it to be appropriate and necessary for the legislative process, prior to the adoption of any substantive amendment; calls on the committees to make use of the Impact Assessment Unit in implementing this commitment;

47. Recalls the commitment made by Parliament and the Council in the 2005 Interinstitutional Common Approach to Impact Assessment to carry out impact assessments where they consider it to be appropriate and necessary for the legislative process, prior to the adoption of any substantive amendment; calls on the committees to make use of the Impact Assessment Unit in implementing this commitment;