Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 July 2007 on Community statistics on migration and international protection and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 311/76 on the compilation of statistics on foreign workers (Text with EEA relevance)

Article 1

Subject matter

This Regulation establishes common rules for the collection and compilation of Community statistics on:

(a) immigration to and emigration from the Member State territories, including flows from the territory of one Member State to that of another Member State and flows between a Member State and the territory of a third country;

(b) the citizenship and country of birth of persons usually resident in the territory of the Member States;

(c) administrative and judicial procedures and processes in the Member States relating to immigration, granting of permission to reside, citizenship, asylum and other forms of international protection, illegal entry and stay, and returns.

Article 2

Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:

(a) ‘usual residence’ means the place at which a person normally spends the daily period of rest, regardless of temporary absences for purposes of recreation, holiday, visits to friends and relatives, business, medical treatment or religious pilgrimage or, in default, the place of legal or registered residence;

(b) ‘immigration’ means the action by which a person establishes his or her usual residence in the territory of a Member State for a period that is, or is expected to be, of at least 12 months, having previously been usually resident in another Member State or a third country;

(c) ‘emigration’ means the action by which a person, having previously been usually resident in the territory of a Member State, ceases to have his or her usual residence in that Member State for a period that is, or is expected to be, of at least 12 months;

(d) ‘citizenship’ means the particular legal bond between an individual and his or her State, acquired by birth or naturalisation, whether by declaration, choice, marriage or other means according to national legislation;

(e) ‘country of birth’ means the country of residence (in its current borders, if the information is available) of the mother at the time of the birth or, in default, the country (in its current borders, if the information is available) in which the birth took place;

(f) ‘immigrant’ means a person undertaking an immigration;

(g) ‘emigrant’ means a person undertaking an emigration;

(h) ‘long-term resident’ means long-term resident as defined in Article 2(b) of Council Directive 2003/109/EC of 25 November 2003 concerning the status of third-country nationals who are long-term residents (¹);

(i) ‘third-country national’ means any person who is not a citizen of the Union within the meaning of Article 17(1) of the Treaty, including stateless persons;

(j) ‘application for international protection’ means an application for international protection as defined in point (h) of Article 2 of Directive 2011/95/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection, for a uniform status for refugees or for persons eligible for subsidiary protection, and for the content of the protection granted (²);

(k) ‘refugee status’ means refugee status as defined in point (e) of Article 2 of Directive 2011/95/EU;

(l) ‘subsidiary protection status’ means subsidiary protection status as defined in point (g) of Article 2 of Directive 2011/95/EU;

(m) ‘family members’ means family members as defined in point (g) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 604/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 establishing the criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an application for international protection lodged in one of the Member States by a third-country national or a stateless person (³);

(n) ‘temporary protection’ means temporary protection as defined in Article 2(a) of Council Directive 2001/55/EC of 20 July 2001 on minimum standards for giving temporary protection in the event of a mass influx of displaced persons and on measures promoting a balance of efforts between Member States in receiving such persons and bearing the consequences thereof (⁴);

(o) ‘unaccompanied minor’ means an unaccompanied minor as defined in point (l) of Article 2 of Directive 2011/95/EU;

(p) ‘external borders’ means external borders as defined in point 2 of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2016/399 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on a Union Code on the rules governing the movement of persons across borders (Schengen Borders Code) (⁵);

(q) ‘third-country nationals refused entry’ means third-country nationals who are refused entry at the external border because they do not fulfil all the entry conditions laid down in Article 6(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/399 and do not belong to any of the categories of persons referred to in Article 6(5) of that Regulation;

(r) ‘third-country nationals found to be illegally present’ means third-country nationals who are officially found to be on the territory of a Member State and who do not fulfil, or no longer fulfil, the conditions for stay or residence in that Member State;

(s) ‘resettlement’ means the transfer of third-country nationals or stateless persons on the basis of an assessment of their need for international protection and a durable solution, to a Member State, where they are permitted to reside with a secure legal status.

Article 3

Statistics on international migration, usually resident population and acquisition of citizenship

Member States shall supply to the Commission (Eurostat) statistics on the numbers of:

(a) immigrants moving to the territory of the Member State, disaggregated as follows: (i) groups of citizenship by age and sex; (ii) groups of country of birth by age and sex; (iii) groups of country of previous usual residence by age and sex;

(b) emigrants moving from the territory of the Member State disaggregated as follows: (i) groups of citizenships; (ii) age; (iii) sex; (iv) groups of countries of next usual residence;

(c) persons having their usual residence in the Member State at the end of the reference period, disaggregated as follows: (i) groups of citizenship by age and sex; (ii) groups of country of birth by age and sex;

(d) persons having their usual residence in the territory of the Member State and having acquired during the reference year the citizenship of the Member State and having formerly held the citizenship of another Member State or a third country or having formerly been stateless, disaggregated by age and sex, and by the former citizenship of the persons concerned and by whether the person was formerly stateless.

Article 4

Statistics on international protection

Member States shall supply to the Commission (Eurostat) statistics on the numbers of:

(a) persons having submitted an application for international protection or having been included in such an application as a family member during the reference period;

(b) persons who are the subject of applications for international protection under consideration by the responsible national authority at the end of the reference period;

(c) applications for international protection having been withdrawn during the reference period, disaggregated by explicit and implicit withdrawal as referred to in Articles 27 and 28 of Directive 2013/32/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (⁶);

(d) persons having submitted an application for international protection or having been included in such an application as a family member during the reference period and applying for international protection for the first time;

(e) persons having submitted an application for international protection or having been included in such an application as a family member during the reference period and having had their applications processed under the accelerated procedure provided for in Article 31(8) of Directive 2013/32/EU;

(f) persons having submitted a subsequent application for international protection as referred to in Article 40 of Directive 2013/32/EU or having been included in such an application as a family member during the reference period;

(g) persons having submitted an application for international protection or having been included in such an application as a family member and having benefited from material reception conditions providing an adequate standard of living for applicants, in accordance with Article 17 of Directive 2013/33/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (⁷), at the end of the reference period.

Statistics under points (a) to (f) shall be disaggregated by age and sex, by citizenship of the persons concerned and by unaccompanied minors. They shall relate to reference periods of one calendar month and shall be supplied to the Commission (Eurostat) within two months of the end of the reference month. The first reference month shall be January 2021.

Statistics under point (g) shall relate to reference periods of one calendar year and shall be supplied to the Commission (Eurostat) within six months of the end of the reference year. The first reference year shall be 2021.

Member States shall supply to the Commission (Eurostat) statistics on the numbers of:

(a) persons covered by first instance decisions rejecting applications for international protection, such as decisions considering applications as inadmissible or as unfounded and decisions under priority and accelerated procedures, taken by administrative or judicial bodies during the reference period;

(b) persons covered by first instance decisions granting, revoking, ending or refusing to renew refugee status, taken by administrative or judicial bodies during the reference period;

(c) persons covered by first instance decisions granting, revoking, ending or refusing to renew subsidiary protection status, taken by administrative or judicial bodies during the reference period;

(d) persons covered by first instance decisions granting or withdrawing temporary protection, taken by administrative or judicial bodies during the reference period;

(e) persons covered by other first instance decisions granting or withdrawing authorisation to stay for humanitarian reasons under national law concerning international protection, taken by administrative or judicial bodies during the reference period.

These statistics shall be disaggregated by age and sex, by citizenship of the persons concerned and by unaccompanied minors. They shall relate to reference periods of three calendar months and shall be supplied to the Commission (Eurostat) within two months of the end of the reference period. The first reference period shall be January to March 2021.

Member States shall supply to the Commission (Eurostat) statistics on the numbers of:

(a) applicants for international protection who are considered by the responsible national authority to be unaccompanied minors during the reference period;

(b) persons covered by final decisions rejecting applications for international protection, such as decisions considering applications as inadmissible or as unfounded and decisions under priority and accelerated procedures, taken by administrative or judicial bodies in appeal or review during the reference period;

(c) persons covered by final decisions granting, revoking, ending or refusing to renew refugee status, taken by administrative or judicial bodies during the reference period;

(d) persons covered by final decisions granting, revoking, ending or refusing to renew subsidiary protection status, taken by administrative or judicial bodies during the reference period;

(e) persons covered by final decisions granting or withdrawing temporary protection taken by administrative or judicial bodies in appeal or review during the reference period;

(f) persons covered by other final decisions, taken by administrative or judicial bodies in appeal or review, granting or withdrawing authorisations to stay for humanitarian reasons under national law concerning international protection during the reference period;

(g) persons who have been granted an authorisation to reside in a Member State within the framework of a national or Community resettlement scheme during the reference period, where such a scheme is implemented in that Member State.

These statistics shall be disaggregated by age and sex, by citizenship of the persons concerned, and, with the exception of point (a), by unaccompanied minors. In addition, statistics under point (g) shall be disaggregated by the country of residence and by the type of asylum decision.

The statistics referred to in the first subparagraph shall relate to reference periods of one calendar year and shall be supplied to the Commission (Eurostat) within three months of the end of the reference year. The first reference year shall be 2021.

Member States shall supply to the Commission (Eurostat) the following statistics on the application of Regulation (EC) No 343/2003 and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1560/2003 of 2 September 2003 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 343/2003 (⁸):

(a) the numbers of requests for taking back or taking charge of an asylum seeker;

(b) the provisions on which the requests referred to in point (a) are based;

(c) the decisions taken in response to the requests referred to in point (a);

(d) the numbers of transfers to which the decisions referred to in point (c) lead;

(e) the number of requests for information;

(f) the number of re-examination requests for taking back or taking charge of an asylum seeker;

(g) the provisions on which the requests referred to in point (f) are based;

(h) the decisions taken in response to the requests referred to in point (f);

(i) the numbers of transfers to which the decisions referred to in point (h) lead.

These statistics shall be disaggregated by sex and by accompanied and unaccompanied minors. They shall relate to reference periods of one calendar year and shall be supplied to the Commission (Eurostat) within three months of the end of the reference year. The first reference year shall be 2021.

Article 5

Statistics on the prevention of illegal entry and stay

Member States shall supply to the Commission (Eurostat) statistics on the numbers of:

(a) third-country nationals refused entry to the Member State's territory at the external border;

(b) third-country nationals found to be illegally present in the Member State's territory under national laws relating to immigration.

The statistics under point (a) shall be disaggregated in accordance with Article 14(5) of Regulation (EU) 2016/399.

The statistics under point (b) shall be disaggregated by age and sex, by citizenship of the persons concerned, by grounds for their apprehension and by place of apprehension.

Article 6

Statistics on residence permits and residence of third-country nationals

(a) residence permits issued to third-country nationals, disaggregated as follows: (i) permits issued during the reference period whereby the third-country national is being granted permission to reside for the first time, disaggregated by citizenship, by the reason for the permit being issued, by the length of validity of the permit, by age and by sex; (ii) permits issued during the reference period and granted on the occasion of a third-country national changing immigration status or reason for stay, disaggregated by citizenship, by the reason for the permit being issued, by the length of validity of the permit, by age and by sex; (iii) valid permits at the end of the reference period (number of permits issued, not withdrawn and not expired), disaggregated by citizenship, by the reason for the issue of the permit, by the length of validity of the permit, by age and by sex;

(b) long-term residents at the end of the reference period, disaggregated by citizenship, by type of long-term status, by age and by sex;

(c) third-country nationals having acquired a long-term residence permit during the reference year, disaggregated by age and by sex.

Article 7

Statistics on returns

Member States shall supply to the Commission (Eurostat) statistics relating to:

(a) the number of third-country nationals found to be illegally present in the territory of the Member State who are subject to an administrative or judicial decision or act stating or declaring that their stay is illegal and imposing an obligation to leave the territory of the Member State, disaggregated by citizenship of the persons concerned;

(b) the number of third-country nationals who have in fact left the territory of the Member State, following an administrative or judicial decision or act, as referred to in point (a), disaggregated by citizenship of the persons returned, by the type of return and assistance received, and by the country of destination.

Article 9

Data sources and quality standards

The statistics shall be based on the following data sources according to their availability in the Member State and in accordance with national laws and practices:

(a) records of administrative and judicial actions;

(b) registers relating to administrative actions;

(c) registers of the population of persons or of a particular sub-group of that population;

(d) censuses;

(e) sample surveys;

(f) other appropriate sources.

As part of the statistics process, scientifically based and well documented statistical estimation methods may be used.

(a) setting out the practical arrangements for, and the content of, the quality reports referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article;

(b) regarding the measures relating to the definition of appropriate formats for the transmission of data under this Regulation.

The acts referred to in point (a) shall not impose significant additional burdens or costs on the Member States.

The implementing acts referred to in this paragraph shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 11(2).

Article 9a

Pilot studies

The pilot studies referred to in this Article shall relate to the following matters:

(a) for statistics required under Article 4 as a whole, disaggregations by month of submission of the application for international protection;