(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 (8);

(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 application for international protection as defined in Article 2(g) of Council Directive 2004/83/EC of 29 April 2004 on minimum standards for the qualification and status of third-country nationals or stateless persons as refugees or as persons who otherwise need international protection and the content of the protection granted (9);

(k)

‘refugee status’ means refugee status as defined in Article 2(d) of Directive 2004/83/EC;

(l)

‘subsidiary protection status’ means subsidiary protection status as defined in Article 2(f) of Directive 2004/83/EC;

(m)

‘family members’ means family members as defined in Article 2(i) of Council Regulation (EC) No 343/2003 of 18 February 2003 establishing the criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an asylum application lodged in one of the Member States by a third-country national (10);

(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 (11);

(o)

‘unaccompanied minor’ means an unaccompanied minor as defined in Article 2(i) of Directive 2004/83/EC;

(p)

‘external borders’ means external borders as defined in Article 2(2) of Regulation (EC) No 562/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 establishing a Community Code on the rules governing the movement of persons across borders (Schengen Borders Code) (12);

(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 5(1) of Regulation (EC) No 562/2006 and do not belong to the categories of persons referred to in Article 5(4) 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.

(a)

immigrants moving to the territory of the Member State, disaggregated as follows:

(b)

emigrants moving from the territory of the Member State disaggregated as follows:

(c)

persons having their usual residence in the Member State at the end of the reference period, disaggregated as follows:

(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.

(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.

(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 or withdrawing refugee status, taken by administrative or judicial bodies during the reference period;

(c)

persons covered by first instance decisions granting or withdrawing 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.

(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 or withdrawing refugee status taken by administrative or judicial bodies in appeal or review during the reference period;

(d)

persons covered by final decisions granting or withdrawing subsidiary protection status taken by administrative or judicial bodies in appeal or review 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.

(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.

(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.

(a)

the number of residence permits issued to persons who are third-country nationals, disaggregated as follows:

(b)

the number of long-term residents at the end of the reference period, disaggregated by citizenship.

(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 the citizenship of the persons returned.

(a)

for statistics required under Article 4 as a whole, disaggregations by:

(b)

for statistics required under Article 4(4), disaggregations by:

(c)

for statistics required under Article 5(1)(a), disaggregations by:

(d)

for statistics required under Article 5(1)(b), disaggregations by:

(e)

for statistics required under Article 6, disaggregations by:

(f)

for statistics required under Article 7, disaggregations by:

(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.

(a)

updating the definitions set out in Article 2(1);

(b)

defining the categories of groups of country of birth, groups of country of previous and next usual residence and groups of citizenship as provided for in Article 3(1);

(c)

defining the categories of the reasons for the permit as provided for in Article 6(1)(a);

(d)

defining the additional disaggregations and the levels of disaggregations to be applied to the variables as provided for in Article 8;

(e)

laying down the rules on accuracy and quality standards.