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Summaries of EU Legislation

Asylum and immigration procedure statistics

SUMMARY OF:

Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 – EU statistics on asylum and administrative and judicial procedures related to immigration legislation

WHAT IS THE AIM OF THE REGULATION?

  • Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 sets out European Union (EU) rules for collecting and compiling statistics on international protection (asylum), regular and irregular migration1 and returns by EU Member States and European Free Trade Association countries.
  • To ensure reliable, relevant and timely statistics are available in the area of migration and international protection, and to support the European agenda on migration, amending Regulation (EU) 2020/851 introduces additional statistics to be collected by Eurostat and adds rules for introducing pilot studies to test the feasibility of new data collections or disaggregations within the scope of Regulation (EC) No 862/2007.
  • Statistics on migrant stocks, international migration flows (emigration2 and immigration3) and the acquisition and loss of citizenship, which were previously covered by the regulation, are now governed by the framework for European statistics on population and housing established by Regulation (EU) 2025/2458.

KEY POINTS

Statistical requirements

The regulation sets out the statistical requirements for different categories of data:

  • for residence permits and residence of non-EU citizens, Member States must provide Eurostat with statistics on:
    • residence permits issued, permits issued due to a change of immigration status or reason to stay and long-term residence permits issued,
    • the number of valid residence permits and long-term residence permits;
  • for international protection, Member States must provide Eurostat with statistics on:
    • persons applying for international protection, including first-time and subsequent applications,
    • unaccompanied children applying for international protection,
    • pending applications for international protection,
    • withdrawn asylum applications,
    • applications processed under accelerated procedure,
    • applicants benefiting from material reception conditions,
    • rejected applications for international protection,
    • grants of refugee, subsidiary protection, national humanitarian and temporary protection statuses,
    • requests and re-examination requests, decisions and transfers under the Dublin III Regulation,
    • beneficiaries of resettlement4;
  • for the prevention of irregular entry and stay, and for returns, Member States must provide statistics on the number of:
    • non-EU citizens who have been refused entry at their external borders,
    • non-EU citizens who have been found illegally present on their territories,
    • administrative or judicial decisions imposing an obligation to leave their territories,
    • non-EU citizens who are returned, having been given an order to leave.

Data sources

The statistics are based on a number of sources, including:

  • records of administrative and judicial actions;
  • registers of the population or relating to administrative actions;
  • censuses;
  • sample surveys.

In general, the statistics are broken down by age, sex and citizenship. However, data are also collected for other categories such as the reason for issuing a residence permit or, under Regulation (EU) 2025/2458, the country of birth and the country of previous or next residence.

Pilot studies

  • Amending Regulation (EU) 2020/851 introduces pilot studies to test the feasibility of new data collections or disaggregations within the scope of Regulation (EC) No 862/2007.

Financial contributions from the EU budget are available for national institutes to:

  • develop new methodologies for statistics on migration and international protection; and
  • develop or implement new data collections and disaggregations, including the upgrading of data sources and IT systems, for a period of up to five years.

Implementation

The European Commission submits a report to the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union on the implementation of the regulation every three years. The 2018 report found clear improvements in data availability, completeness, quality and timeliness. The 2021 report concluded that data availability and quality had stabilised at a high level, an assessment confirmed by the 2024 report, which also reported further technical improvements.

FROM WHEN DOES THE REGULATION APPLY?

It has applied since .

BACKGROUND

For further information, see:

KEY TERMS

  1. Irregular migration. The movement of people across borders that does not conform to the administrative or legal norms of the sending, transit or receiving country.
  2. Emigration. The action by which a person, having previously been resident in a Member State, changes their country of residence for a period that is or is expected to be of at least 12 months.
  3. Immigration. The action by which a person establishes their residence in the territory of another Member State or non-EU country for a period that is or is expected to be of at least 12 months.
  4. Resettlement. The transfer of non-EU country citizens to a Member State where they are permitted to reside for the purposes of international protection.

MAIN DOCUMENT

Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of on European statistics on asylum and administrative and judicial procedures related to immigration legislation, and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 311/76 on the compilation of statistics on foreign workers (OJ L 199, , pp. 23–29).

Successive amendments to Regulation (EU) No 862/2007 have been incorporated into the original text. This consolidated version is of documentary value only.

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