Proposal for a Council Directive 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
Date: 2000-05-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: European social policy, aid to refugees, residence permit, right of asylum, social security

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Proposal for a Council Directive 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

(2000/C 311 E/18)

(Text with EEA relevance)

COM(2000) 303 final (cid:151) 2000/0127(CNS)

(Submitted by the Commission on 24 May 2000)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular point 2(a) and (b) of Article
63 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parliament,

(5) The Action Plan of the Council and the Commission of 3
December 1998 (3) provides for the rapid adoption,
in
accordance with the Treaty of Amsterdam, of minimum
standards for giving temporary protection to displaced
persons from third countries who cannot return to their
country of origin and of measures promoting a balance of
effort between Member States in receiving and bearing the
consequences of receiving displaced persons.

Having regard to the Opinion of the Economic and Social
Committee,

Having regard to the Opinion of
Regions,

the Committee of

the

(6) On 27 May 1999 the Council adopted conclusions on
displaced persons from Kosovo. These conclusions call
on the Commission and the Member States to learn the
lessons of their response to the Kosovo crisis in order to
establish the measures in accordance with the Treaty.

Whereas:

(1) The preparation of a

common policy on asylum,
including common European arrangements for asylum,
is a constituent part of the European Union’s objective
of establishing progressively an area of freedom, security
and justice open to those who, forced by circumstances,
legitimately seek protection in the European Union.

country of origin have

(2) Cases of mass influx of displaced persons who cannot
return to their
become
substantially more frequent in Europe in recent years. It
temporary
is often necessary to set up exceptional
protection schemes to offer them immediate temporary
protection to avert the risk of harmful dysfunctions in
the asylum system.

in the

(3) In the conclusions relating to persons displaced by the
conflict
adopted by the
former Yugoslavia
Ministers responsible for immigration at their meetings
in London on 30 November and 1 December 1992 and
Copenhagen on 1 and 2 June 1993, the Member States
and the European Union institutions expressed their
concern at the situation of displaced persons.

(4) On 25 September 1995 the Council adopted a Resolution
on burden-sharing with regard to the admission and
residence of displaced persons on a temporary basis (1),
and, on 4 March 1996, adopted Decision 96/198/JHA on
an alert and emergency procedure for burden-sharing
with regard to the admission and residence of displaced
persons on a temporary basis (2).

(7) The European Council, at its special meeting in Tampere
on 15 and 16 October 1999, acknowledged the need to
reach agreement on the issue of temporary protection for
displaced persons on the basis of solidarity between
Member States.

(8) It

therefore

seems necessary to establish minimum
standards for giving temporary protection in the event
of a mass
influx of displaced persons and to take
measures to promote a balance of efforts between the
Member States in receiving and bearing the consequences
of receiving such persons.

(9) Those standards and measures are linked and inter-
dependent for reasons of effectiveness, coherence and soli-
secondary
darity and in order
to avert
European
movements
and
arrangements
for asylum. They should therefore be
enacted in a single legal instrument.

the risk of
common

support

the

international obligations

(10) This temporary protection should be compatible with the
regards
Member States’
it must not prejudge the recog-
refugees. In particular,
nition of
to the Geneva
Convention of 28 July 1951 on the status of refugees,
as amended by the New York Protocol of 31 January
1967, ratified by all the Member States.

status pursuant

refugee

as

(1) OJ C 262, 7.10.1995, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 63, 13.3.1996, p. 10.

(3) OJ C 19, 23.1.1999, p. 1.

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(11) The mandate of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees regarding refugees and other persons in need
of international protection should be respected, and,
in
the context of temporary protection in the event of a
mass influx of displaced persons, effect should be given
to Declaration No 17 relating to Article 73k, now Article
63, of the Treaty establishing the European Community,
to the Amsterdam Treaty.

(12) Provision should be made for this Directive not to apply
to persons received under temporary protection schemes
before its entry into force.

(13)

It
is in the very nature of minimum standards that
Member States have the power to introduce or maintain
more
enjoying
temporary protection in the event of a mass influx of
displaced persons.

favourable

provisions

persons

for

(14) Given the specific nature of temporary protection in the
event of a mass influx of displaced persons and the
impossibility of setting quantitative criteria as to what
constitutes a mass
influx in advance, a maximum
such protection should be set and its
duration for
implementation should be made subject
to a Council
Decision. That Decision should then be binding in all
Member States in relation to the displaced persons to
whom the Decision applies. The conditions
the
expiry of the Decision should also be determined.

for

(15) Member States wishing to do so should be allowed to
extend the temporary protection in the event of a mass
influx of displaced persons to additional categories of
displaced persons over and above those to whom the
Council Decision applies, where they are displaced for
the same reasons and from the same country of origin,
and the conditions for exercising this possibility should be
determined.

(16) The Member States’ obligations as to the conditions of
reception and residence of persons enjoying temporary
protection in the event of a mass influx of displaced
persons should be determined. These obligations should
be fair and offer an adequate level of protection to those
concerned.

(17) Any discrimination liable to compromise the objective of
developing the European Union as an area of freedom,
security and justice,
including as regards asylum policy
and temporary protection in the event of a mass influx
of displaced persons, should be avoided.

(18) Rules should be laid down to govern access to the asylum
procedure in the context of temporary protection in the
event of a mass influx of displaced persons, in conformity
international obligations and
with the Member States’
with the Treaty.

(19) Provision should be made for principles and measures
governing return to the country of origin and the

the purposes of
situation in the Member States for
temporary protection in the event of a mass influx of
displaced persons.

(20) Provision should be made for a solidarity mechanism
intended to contribute to the attainment of a balance of
effort between Member States in receiving and bearing the
consequences of receiving displaced persons in the event
of a mass influx. The mechanism should consist of two
components. The first is financial. The second concerns
the physical reception of persons in the Member States on
the basis of voluntary action by both the receiving
Member States and the displaced persons. The possibility
should be
of not applying the second component
provided for, as should the conditions for its application.

(21) The implementation of temporary protection should be

accompanied by administrative cooperation.

(22) It

is necessary to determine cases of exclusion from
temporary protection in the event of a mass influx of
displaced persons.

(23) The Member States should provide for penalties in the

event of infringement of this Directive.

(24) The implementation of this Directive should be evaluated

at regular intervals.

(25) In accordance with the principles of subsidiarity and
proportionality as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty, the
the proposed action, namely to establish
objectives of
minimum standards for giving temporary protection in
the event of a mass influx of displaced persons and
measures promoting a balance of efforts between the
Member States in receiving and bearing the consequences
of receiving such persons, cannot be sufficiently attained
by the Member States and can therefore, by reason of the
scale or effects of the proposed action, be better achieved
by the Community. This Directive confines itself to the
minimum required in order to achieve those objectives
is necessary for that
and does not go beyond what
purpose,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

CHAPTER I

General provisions

Article 1

this Directive is

The purpose of
to establish minimum
standards for giving temporary protection in the event of a
mass influx of displaced persons from third countries who
are unable to return to their country of origin, and to
promote a balance of effort between Member States
in
receiving and bearing the consequences of receiving such
persons.

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Article 2

Article 3

For the purposes of this Directive:

Temporary protection does not prejudge recognition of

1.
refugee status under the Geneva Convention.

(a) (cid:145)temporary protection in the event of a mass influx(cid:146) means
exceptional measures to provide,
in the event of a mass
influx of displaced persons from third countries who are
unable to return to their country of origin, immediate and
temporary protection to such persons, where there is a risk
that the asylum system will be unable to process this influx
without adverse effects for its efficient operation,
in the
interests of
the persons concerned and other persons
requesting protection; hereinafter referred to as (cid:145)temporary
protection(cid:146);

(b) (cid:145)Geneva Convention(cid:146) means the Convention of 28 July 1951
relating to the status of refugees, as amended by the New
York Protocol of 31 January 1967;

(c) (cid:145)displaced persons from third countries who are unable to
return to their country of origin(cid:146) means third-country
nationals or stateless persons who have had to leave their
country of origin and are unable to return in safe and
humane conditions because of the situation prevailing in
that country, who may fall within the scope of Article 1A
of
international or
national instruments giving protection, in particular:

the Geneva Convention or other

2. Member States shall apply temporary protection with due
respect
for human rights as guaranteed by the European
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Funda-
mental Freedoms, signed in Rome on 4 November 1950.

The establishment,

3.
implementation and termination of
temporary protection shall be the subject of regular consul-
tations with the United Nations High Commission for
Refugees (UNHCR) and other organisations concerned.

This Directive shall not apply to persons who have been
4.
accepted under temporary protection schemes prior to its entry
into force.

This Directive shall not affect

5.
the
Member States to adopt or retain more favourable provisions
for persons covered by temporary protection.

the prerogative of

(cid:151) persons who have fled areas of armed conflict or

Duration and implementation of temporary protection

endemic violence;

Article 4

(cid:151) persons at serious risk of or who have been the victims
of systematic or generalised violations of their human
rights;

The duration of temporary protection shall be one year. Unless
terminated under the terms of Article 6(1)(b),
it may be
extended automatically by six-month periods for a maximum
of one year.

CHAPTER II

(d) (cid:145)mass influx(cid:146) means arrival in the Community of a large
number of displaced persons from third countries who are
unable to return to their country of origin, who come from
a specific country or geographical area;

(e) (cid:145)refugees(cid:146) means third-country nationals or stateless persons
the Geneva

within the meaning of Article 1A of
Convention;

(f)

(cid:145)unaccompanied minors(cid:146) means
third-country nationals
below the age of eighteen, who arrive on the territory of
the Member States unaccompanied by an adult responsible
for them whether by law or custom, and for as long as they
are not effectively taken into the care of such a person;

(g) (cid:145)residence permit(cid:146) means any permit or authorisation issued
by the authorities of a Member State and taking the form
provided for in that State’s legislation, allowing a third
country national to reside in its territory;

(h) (cid:145)applicant for reunification(cid:146) or (cid:145)applicant(cid:146) means a third-
country national enjoying temporary protection regime in
a Member State and applying to be joined by one or more
members of his family.

The maximum duration of
exceed two years in total.

temporary protection may not

Article 5

A mass influx of displaced persons shall be established by
1.
a Council decision adopted by qualified majority on a proposal
from the Commission, which shall also examine any request by
a Member State that it submit a proposal to the Council. The
Council Decision shall have the effect of introducing temporary
protection, for the displaced persons to which it refers, in all
the Member States, in accordance with the provisions of this
Directive. The Decision shall include at least:

(a) a description of the specific groups of persons to whom the

temporary protection applies;

(b) the date on which the temporary protection will take effect;

(c) the declarations by the Member States pursuant to Article

25.

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2.

The Council Decision shall be based on:

(a) an examination of the situation and the scale of the popu-

lation movements;

(b) an assessment of the advisability of establishing temporary
protection, taking into account the potential for emergency
aid and action on the ground or the inadequacy of such
measures;

(c) information received

from the Member

Commission,
concerned.

the UNHCR and

other

States,

the
organisations

The Member States shall,

if necessary, provide persons
3.
admitted to their territory for the purposes of
temporary
protection with every facility for obtaining the necessary
visas,
including transit visas. These visas shall be free of
charge. Formalities must be reduced to a minimum because
of the urgency of the situation.

Article 9

The Member States shall issue to persons enjoying temporary
protection a document, in the official language or languages of
the country of origin and the host country,
in which the
provisions relating to temporary protection are clearly set out.

The

relevant provisions of

3.
the Council’s Rules of
Procedure governing urgent cases may apply where appro-
priate.

The European Parliament

4.
Council Decision.

shall be informed of

the

Article 6

1.

Temporary protection shall come to an end:

(a) when the maximum duration has been reached

or

Article 10

The Member States shall authorise persons enjoying temporary
protection to engage in employed or self-employed activities
under the same conditions. This principle of equal treatment
of persons enjoying temporary protection and refugees also
applies to remuneration, social security related to employed
of
or
employment.

self-employed

conditions

activities,

other

and

Article 11

(b) at any time, by Council Decision adopted by qualified
majority on a proposal from the Commission, which shall
also examine any request by a Member State that it submit
a proposal to the Council.

1.
The Member States shall ensure that persons enjoying
temporary protection have access to suitable accommodation
or, if necessary, receive the means to obtain housing.

2.
The Council Decision shall be based on the establishment
of the fact that the situation in the country of origin is such as
in
to permit
accordance with Article 33 of the Geneva Convention and
the European Convention on Human Rights. The European
Parliament shall be informed of the Decision.

safe and dignified return,

long-term,

the

Article 7

Member States may extend temporary protection to additional
categories of persons who are displaced for the same reasons
and from the same country of origin in cases where these
categories are not included in the Council Decision provided
for
in Article 5. They shall notify the Council and the
Commission immediately.

CHAPTER III

Obligations of

the Member States
enjoying temporary protection

towards persons

Article 8

1.
The Member States shall adopt the necessary measures to
provide persons enjoying temporary protection with residence
permits for the entire duration of the protection. Documents
shall be issued for that purpose.

2. Whatever the period of validity of the residence permits
referred to in paragraph 1,
the treatment granted by the
Member States
to persons enjoying temporary protection
may not be less favourable than that set out in Articles 9 to 15.

The Member States shall make provision for persons
2.
enjoying temporary protection to receive
the necessary
assistance in terms of social welfare and means of subsistence,
if they do not have sufficient resources, as well as medical care.
Without prejudice to paragraph 4,
support
necessary for medical care shall
include at least emergency
care and the treatment of illness.

the financial

enjoying

3. Where persons
temporary protection are
engaged in employed or self-employed activities, account shall
be taken, when fixing the proposed level of aid, of their ability
to meet their own needs.

The Member States shall provide appropriate medical or
4.
other assistance to persons enjoying temporary protection who
have special needs, such as unaccompanied minors or persons
who have undergone torture, rape or other serious forms of
psychological, physical or sexual violence.

Article 12

shall

States

The Member

grant minors

enjoying
1.
temporary protection access to the education system under
the same conditions as nationals of the host Member State.
The Member States may limit
to the state
education system. Minors shall be younger than the age of
legal majority in the Member State concerned.

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The Member States shall allow adults enjoying temporary
2.
protection access to the general education system, as well as to
vocational training, further training or retraining.

Article 13

1. When the circumstances surrounding the mass influx
have led to the separation of families which already existed
in the country of origin, the Member States shall authorise
the entry and residence of the following persons:

(a) the spouse or unmarried partner in a stable relationship, if
the Member State concerned treats

the legislation of
unmarried couples in the same way as married couples;

(b) the children of the couple referred to in point (a) or of the
applicant, on condition that
they are unmarried and
dependent and without distinction according to whether
they were born in or out of wedlock or adopted;

(c) other

family members
or have

if

they are dependent on the
traumatic

particularly

applicant
experiences or require special medical treatment.

undergone

2.
Families may be reunited at any time during the period of
temporary protection until two months before the end of the
maximum two-year period. Reunited family members shall be
the temporary protection
granted residence permits under
scheme.

3.
The application for reunification shall be lodged by the
applicant in the Member State where he resides. The Member
States shall establish that the various members of the family
agree to this reunification.

For the purposes of any decision under paragraph 1, the
4.
absence of documentary evidence of the family relationship
shall not be regarded as an obstacle in itself. Member States
shall take into account all of the facts and specific circum-
the evidence submitted
stances in assessing the validity of
and the credibility of the statements by the interested parties.

If

5.
the members of a single family as described in
paragraph 1 enjoy temporary protection in different Member
States,
the Member States shall authorise the family to be
reunited in the host Member State of their choice under the
same conditions as in paragraph 2. Transfer of the family to
this Member State for the purposes of reunification shall result
in the withdrawal of the residence permit issued in the Member
State of departure and termination of the obligations towards
the persons concerned relating to temporary protection in the
Member State of departure.

The application for reunification shall be lodged in the host
State in which the family wishes to be united. The Member
States shall establish that the various members of the family
agree to this reunification.

State

concerned

The Member

the
6.
application for
reunification as quickly as possible. Any
decision rejecting the application shall be accompanied by a
statement of reasons and be open to legal challenge in the
Member State concerned. When examining applications, the
Member States shall give priority to the interests of minors.

examine

shall

The practical implementation of this Article may involve

7.
cooperation with the international organisations concerned.

Article 14

1.
The Member States shall take the necessary measures as
soon as possible, to ensure the representation of unaccom-
panied minors enjoying the temporary protection by legal
guardianship, or representation by an organisation which is
responsible for the care and well-being of minors, or by any
other appropriate representation.

During the period of

temporary protection Member
2.
States shall provide for unaccompanied minors to be placed:

(a) with adult relatives;

(b) with a foster family;

(c) in reception centres with special provisions for minors, or

in other accommodation suitable for minors.

The Member States shall

3.
take the necessary steps to
enable an unaccompanied minor whose family has not been
located to be placed, where appropriate, with a person or
the child when fleeing. The
persons who looked after
Member States shall establish that the unaccompanied minor
and the person or persons concerned agree to this reunifi-
cation.

Article 15

The Member States shall
implement their obligations under
Articles 8 to 14 without discriminating between persons
enjoying temporary protection, on the grounds of sex, race,
ethnic origin, nationality, religion or convictions, handicap,
age or sexual orientation.

CHAPTER IV

Access

to the asylum procedure in the context of

temporary protection

Article 16

Persons

enjoying

1.
be
temporary
guaranteed access to the procedure for determining refugee
status if they so wish.

protection

shall

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Access shall be granted no later than the end of the
2.
temporary protection. Where an asylum application has been
temporary protection and
submitted before or
consideration of
the
suspension may not extend beyond the end of the temporary
protection. The Member States may provide for mechanisms
for confirming the asylum application,
setting reasonable
deadlines and ensuring that applicants are properly informed.

the application has been suspended,

during

Article 17

The criteria and mechanisms for deciding which Member State
is responsible for considering asylum application shall apply.

Article 18

The Member

temporary
1.
protection may not be enjoyed concurrently with the status
of asylum seeker while applications are under consideration.

States may provide

that

2. Where, after an asylum application has been examined,
refugee status is not granted to a person eligible for temporary
protection,
the Member States shall, without prejudice to
Article 29, provide for that person to continue to enjoy
the period of
temporary protection for
protection.

the remainder of

CHAPTER V

Return and measures after temporary protection

Article 19

When the temporary protection ends, the ordinary law on
protection and entry and residence of foreign nationals in the
Member States shall apply.

Article 20

The Member States shall consider any compelling humanitarian
reasons which may make return impossible or unrealistic in
specific cases.

Article 21

The Member States shall take the measures necessary to
1.
facilitate the voluntary return,
in a secure and dignified
manner, of persons enjoying temporary protection or whose
temporary protection has ended. The Member States shall
ensure that the decision of those persons to return is taken
in full knowledge of the facts. The Member States may provide
for the possibility of exploratory visits.

For as long as the temporary protection has not ended,
2.
the Member States shall, on the basis of the circumstances
prevailing
favourable
consideration to requests for return to the host Member State
from persons who have enjoyed temporary protection and
exercised their right to voluntary return.

country

origin,

give

the

of

in

At the end of

the temporary protection, the Member
3.
States may provide for the obligations laid down in Chapter
III
to be extended individually to persons who have been
covered by temporary protection and are benefiting from a
voluntary return programme. The extension shall have effect
until the date of return.

Article 22

The Member States shall

1.
take the measures necessary
concerning the conditions of residence of persons who have
enjoyed temporary protection and have special needs such as
in order to avoid inter-
medical or psychological treatment,
their personal
to the detriment of
rupting such treatment
medical
interests, even though the temporary protection has
ended.

The Member States shall ensure that

families whose
2.
in a Member State
children are minors and attend school
can,
from residence conditions
they so wish, benefit
allowing the children concerned to complete the current
school period.

if

Article 23

shall

The Member States
in
agreement with the persons concerned and in cooperation
with the international organisations responsible, to facilitate
any resettlement programmes which may be necessary.

take appropriate measures,

CHAPTER VI

Solidarity

Article 24

The measures provided for in this Directive shall be financed
by the European Refugee Fund set up by Decision . . ./. . .,
under the conditions laid down in that Decision.

Article 25

1.
The Member States shall receive persons who are eligible
for temporary protection in a spirit of Community solidarity.
They shall either indicate (cid:151) in figures or in general terms (cid:151)
their capacity to receive such persons, or state the reasons for
their incapacity to do so. This information shall be set out in a
declaration by the Member States to be annexed to the
Decision provided for in Article 5. After that Decision has
the Member States may indicate additional
been adopted,
the
reception capacity
Commission. This information shall be passed on swiftly to
the UNHCR.

by notifying

the Council

and

The Member States, acting in cooperation with the
2.
competent
the
international organisations, shall ensure that
beneficiaries defined in the Decision referred to at Article 5,
who are not yet on their territory are willing to be received on
their territory.

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Article 26

For

the duration of

the temporary protection,

1.
the
Member States shall cooperate with each other, where appro-
priate, with a view to transferring the residence of persons
enjoying temporary protection from one Member State to
another. The beneficiaries’ consent shall be obtained.

A Member State shall communicate its requests
2.
and notify
to the other Member States
transfers
Commission and the UNHCR. The Member States
inform the requesting Member State of
receiving transferees.

for
the
shall
their capacity for

the

residence permit

3. Where a transfer is made from one Member State to
another,
in the Member State of
departure expires and the obligations towards the persons
concerned relating to temporary protection in the Member
State of departure shall come to an end. The new host
temporary protection to the
Member State
persons concerned.

shall grant

The Member States shall use the model pass set out in the
transfers between Member States of persons

4.
Annex for
enjoying temporary protection.

Article 27

The application of Article 25 and 26 shall be without prejudice
to the Member States’ obligations regarding non-refoulement.

CHAPTER VII

Administrative cooperation

Article 28

1. With a view to the administrative cooperation required to
the Member
the temporary protection scheme,
implement
States shall each appoint a national contact point, whose
address they shall communicate to each other and to the
Commission. The Member States shall,
in liaison with the
Commission,
the appropriate measures to establish
direct cooperation and an exchange of information between
the competent authorities.

take all

2.
The Member States shall, regularly and as quickly as
possible, communicate the data concerning the number of
persons covered by temporary protection and full information
on the national laws, regulations and administrative provisions
relating to the implementation of temporary protection.

CHAPTER VIII

Special provisions

Article 29

States may exclude

The Member
1.
temporary protection if
their national security or if
believing that

a person from
they are regarded as a danger to
there are serious grounds for
they have committed a war crime or crime

against humanity or if, during consideration of the asylum
application,
it is found that the exclusion clauses in Article
1F of the Geneva Convention apply.

These grounds for exclusion shall be based solely on the
2.
personal conduct of the person concerned. Exclusion decisions
or measures shall be based on the principle of proportionality.
The persons concerned shall be entitled to seek redress in the
courts of the Member State concerned.

CHAPTER IX

Final provisions

Article 30

The Member States shall lay down the penalties applicable to
infringements of the national provisions adopted pursuant to
this Directive and shall take all measures necessary to ensure
that they are implemented. The penalties provided for must be
effective, proportionate and dissuasive. The Member States shall
notify those provisions to the Commission by the date specified
in Article 32 at the latest and shall notify it without delay of
any subsequent amendment affecting them.

Article 31

1.
No later than two years after the date specified in Article
32, the Commission shall report to the European Parliament
and the Council on the application of this Directive in the
Member States and shall propose any amendments that are
necessary. The Member States shall send the Commission all
the information that is appropriate for drawing up this report.

2.
After presenting the report referred to at paragraph 1, the
Commission shall report to the European Parliament and the
Council on the application of this Directive in the Member
States at least every five years.

Article 32

The Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations
and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this
Directive by 31 December 2002 at
the latest. They shall
forthwith inform the Commission thereof.

When the Member States adopt those provisions, they shall
contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by
such a reference on the occasion of their official publication.
Member States shall determine how such reference is to be
made.

Article 33

This Directive shall enter into force on the twentieth day
following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Communities.

Article 34

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

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ANNEX

Model pass for the transfer of persons under temporary protection

PASS

Reference number (*):

Issued under Article 26 of Directive . . ./. . ./EC of . . . 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.

Valid only for the transfer of ....................................................... (1)
at (3) by ........................................................ (4)

to ......................................... (2). The person in question must present himself/herself

Issued at: ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Surname: ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

For name:...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Place and date of birth:

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Nationality:

...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Date issued: ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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SEAL

For the Home Secretary/Minister for the Interior ...................................................

The pass-holder has been identified by the authorities ................................................................................................................................................................. (5) (6)

This document is issued only pursuant to Article 26 of Directive . . ./. . ./EC of . . . and in no way constitutes a document which can be assimilated to a
travel document authorising the crossing of the external border or a document proving the individual’s identity.

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(*) The reference number is allocated by the country from which the transfer to another Member State is made.
(1) Member State from which the transfer is being made.
(2) Member State to which the transfer is being made.
(3) Place where the person must present himself/herself on arrival in the second Member State.
(4) Deadline by which the person must present himself/herself on arrival in the second Member State.
(5) On the basis of the following travel or identity documents, presented to the authorities.
(6) On the basis of documents other than a travel or identity document.