EU Pact on Migration and Asylum (2024)

Commission presents the New Pact on Migration and Asylum[18][14]

Commission communication on a New Pact on Migration and Asylum (COM(2020) 609) and proposal for a regulation on asylum and migration management (COM(2020) 610)[18][14]

Some texts of the package build on earlier proposals, such as the 2016 proposal for an asylum procedure regulation.

European Parliament adopts its position on the ten texts[15][1]

Parliament approves the ten texts — asylum and migration management by 322 votes to 266 (31 abstentions)[15]

Other votes: asylum procedure 301–269 (51 abstentions), crisis 301–272 (46), screening 366–229 (26), Eurodac 404–202 (16), qualification 340–249 (34), reception 398–162 (60), return border procedure 329–253 (40), resettlement 452–154 (14), ECRIS-TCN amendments linked to screening 414–182 (29).

Council decision and signature of the ten acts[1][3]

Council decision; the ten acts are signed[1][3][4][5][6][8][10][11][12][13]

Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union[1]

Entry into force (twentieth day after publication in the Official Journal)[1][3]

Most provisions apply only after a two-year transition period; a few AMMR articles (annual report, solidarity forum, implementation plans) apply from 11 June 2024.

Commission presents the Common Implementation Plan (ten building blocks)[16]

Member States then had until 12 December 2024 to adopt national implementation plans.

A minority of members of the French Assemblée nationale asks the Court of Justice to annul Regulation 2024/1351 (case C-553/24)[17][18]

First action ever brought by a national parliament under Article 8 of Protocol No 2 (subsidiarity); Hungary intervened in its support, Greece, Spain and the Commission in support of the Parliament and the Council.

First European Annual Asylum and Migration Report; Greece, Spain, Italy and Cyprus designated as under migratory pressure[19][20]

The Regulation set 15 October 2025 as the deadline for this first report.

Corrigenda align the application date of the asylum and migration management, crisis and qualification regulations on 12 June 2026 (instead of 1 July 2026)[2][7][9]

Council establishes the first Annual Solidarity Pool, for 2026: 21,000 relocations and €420 million[21][22]

Pledges were made at the High-Level EU Solidarity Forum in November 2025; Hungary and Slovakia made no pledge; the pledges of Czechia, Estonia, Croatia, Austria and Poland, facing a significant migratory situation, were adjusted accordingly. The decision applies from 12 June 2026.

Two amending regulations: wider « safe third country » concept and first EU list of safe countries of origin[23][24]

Parliament’s position of 10 February 2026, Council decision of 23 February; published on 26 February, in force the next day.

Third Commission report on the state of play of implementation[25]

The Commission notes that readiness varies across Member States and that most still had to transpose the reception directive by 12 June.

Advocate General Ćapeta proposes that the Court dismiss the action against Regulation 2024/1351[18]

Opinion: action partly inadmissible (only subsidiarity can be invoked) and partly unfounded. No judgment was published on EUR-Lex at the last check (5 November 2026).

The Pact enters into application[26][2][5][21]

Applicable after the two-year transition; Eurodac biometric data on beneficiaries of temporary protection only from 12 June 2029.

The Pact enters into application; the first annual solidarity pledges start being implemented[26][21]

Commission assessment of Greece and Italy’s handling of responsibility rules (Dublin transfers)[27]

Under the AMMR, contributing States need not implement their pledges towards a benefitting State with systemic shortcomings. Between 12 June and 7 July 2026, 8 Member States sent requests or notifications to Greece; no transfer request had yet been submitted to it.