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European legislation for migration statistics

European legislation for migration statistics. David Thorogood Eurostat. Preparing legislation – a long and complicated process. First draft August 2003 Technical consultation (2 years – unusually long) Adoption as Commission Proposal September 2005

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European legislation for migration statistics

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  1. European legislation for migration statistics David Thorogood Eurostat

  2. Preparing legislation – a long and complicated process • First draft • August 2003 • Technical consultation (2 years – unusually long) • Adoption as Commission Proposal • September 2005 • Review and amendment by Council and European Parliament (3-way discussion) • Ongoing • Coming into force • Projected 2007 • Implementation • 2007-2008 (first reference year - 2008)

  3. Principles followed • Freedom to use any appropriate data sources • Harmonised statistical definitions • UN Recommendations • EU legislation on asylum, border controls and immigration • Metadata • clear reports on the data sources and methods used • Comprehensive legal framework for the current and foreseeable future needs for migration and asylum statistics • migration flows, foreign population stocks, acquisition of citizenship, asylum, measures against illegal immigration, residence permits. • Some flexibility for future updating of definitions

  4. Major amendments and points of (ongoing) discussion • Definitions – focus of early discussions • Duration of residence • Registered or legal residence • First reference year now 2008 • Emigration statistics– greatly reduced disaggregations • Recognition that statistical estimations and modelling are used for some statistics • Transitional period for use of common definitions ?

  5. Implementation • Further technical discussion • Task force meetings • Online and written consultation • Defining • classification and groups for disaggregations • formats for data transmission • Technical guidelines and Commission regulations • Two projects to assist Member States in implementation • development and application of statistical modelling techniques • assistance in identifying, adapting and

  6. Conclusions • Legislation results in far greater attention being paid to definitions and concepts • What does the definition really mean? • Is it feasible, logical, necessary? • Compromise and co-operation are necessary to make progress • Migration statistics can be improved • challenging • requires gradual change • high level commitment

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