What is the EMN?

The purpose of the EMN is to provide objective, up-to-date, reliable and comparable information on the field of migration and asylum for the EU institutions and Member States. Moreover, the EMN aims at collecting, storing and analysing the already existing data and new information provided by Member States both at national and community level in a systematic way. 

The EMN not only promotes policy-making and satisfies the information needs of various institutions but also provides information to the public.

How was the EMN established?

The European Commission was requested by the Conclusion of the Laeken European Council in 2001 “to establish a system which ensures the exchange of information on migration, asylum and countries of origin.” The result was the EMN, which was launched in 2003 as a pilot project.                                                                                                                                                                       The Thessaloniki European Council stated in 2003 that “the development of the European asylum and migration policy should be based on the common analysis of the migratory phenomenon and the strengthening of the collection, provision, exchange and efficient use of relevant and up-to-date information on migratory phenomenon is of crucial importance.”

These statements were reinforced by the Hague Programme in 2004. Following the successful preparation, the European Migration Network was established by the Council Decision 2008/381/EC on 14^thof May 2008.

How does the EMN operate?

At European level

The EMN is composed of the Commission and the national contact points (NCP) assigned by the Member States. It is only Denmark who does not take part in the EMN.

At national level

Every Member State designs an entity which acts as a national contact point. In Hungary it is the Department of Co-operation in Justice and Home Affairs and Migration of the Ministry of Justice and Law Enforcement that carries out the tasks of the national contact point (HU NCP). The HU NCP coordinates the work of the Hungarian national network.

2008/381 Council Decision on establishing the Euro
pean Migartion Network

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