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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank Mr Schmidt for the concise and clear report he has presented on this Austrian initiative. I would also like to make it clear that this is not a Commission initiative. This is an initiative by a Member State. It is an Austrian initiative, drawn up by the Austrian Government, and, in consequence, some of the questions put to me by the honourable Member cannot be answered by the Commission, because this is not a Commission proposal.
The Austrian initiative, however, poses a complex problem related to the use in the European asylum system of the concept of safe third countries. The Council has consulted experts who have analysed this issue, and I can say that there is an agreement in principle within the Council in favour of discussing this matter more thoroughly during the next Council meeting on 2-3 October.
As the honourable Members know, five Member States made a joint declaration in June, calling for the Council to draw up a joint list of safe countries of origin. What the Council is discussing at present is precisely the possibility of including a legal provision on how to define such a list, which could be incorporated into the proposal for a directive – this time a Commission directive – on asylum proceedings.
Linked to this question is another, on which no initiative has as yet been proposed, but which will also be submitted to ministers for discussion on 2-3 October. This is the question of deciding whether a provision of this kind for safe third countries will be included in the directive. That is still an open question at present.
In any case, both the subject of safe countries of origin and that of safe third countries will be discussed at the next Council meeting at the beginning of October. From the Commission’s point of view, moreover, the Council will have to consult Parliament once again on the asylum procedures directive as a whole, including in that consultation any possible provision on safe third countries or safe countries of origin which might eventually come to be included in that directive – which, as I said, has still not been ratified."@en1
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