EU institutions-relevant powers to draw up legislation on asylum
In 1999 and 2007, the Treaties of Amsterdam and of Lisbon, respectively,
granted the EU institutions the relevant powers to draw up legislation on asylum.
Articles 67(2) and 78 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
(TFEU) and Article 18 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights form the
significant legal basis in this regard. Since 2005, the relevant institutions have to
apply the normal co-decision procedure, i.e. The Parliament and the Council
have to adopt their decisions by qualified majority.
The background to the present debates and the trigger for the intended asylum
policy reforms relate to the current regulatory framework’s shortcomings that
emerged during the refugee crisis. At the heart of the framework, primarily
established in the first half of this decade, and in the focus of the present debate
is the Dublin III Regulation. 2
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