16-April-2010 Joint UNECE/Eurostat Work Session on Migration Statistics, Geneva, Switzerland, 14-16 April 2010

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Eurostat report on the implementation of Article 3 of Regulation 862/2007

on statistics on international migration, usually resident population and acquisition of citizenship

Katya VasilevaEuropean Commission, DG Eurostat

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Increasing need for high quality migration statistics at European level

Demand for internationally comparable migration data for policy-making and research

Malta Declaration (October 2009)

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Regulation (EC) 862/2007 on Community statistics on migration and international protection

Commission legislative proposal based on consultations with data users and suppliers

Council of the EU and the European Parliament reviewed, amended and adopted Reg. 862/2007 under the 'co-decision‘ procedure

Migration data disaggregated by groups of countries and citizenships

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Regulation (EC) 862/2007 on Community statistics on migration and international protection

Commission Implementing Regulation defining the groups of:

– citizenship, – country of birth,– country of previous usual residence, – country of next usual residence.

European Statistical System Committee approval (November 2009)

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Groups for data on immigration and usually resident population

(citizenship / country of birth / country of previous usual residence)

Reporting country; EU Member States; Non-EU countries, of which:

– EFTA,

– Candidate countries,– Other non-EU countries, of which:

• Highly developed countries,

• Medium developed countries,

• Less developed countries; Unknown.

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Groups for data on emigration (citizenship / country of next usual residence)

Reporting country;

EU Member States;

Non-EU countries;

Unknown.

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2009 Annual Migration Data Collection: Data under Regulation 862/2007 Detailed data (voluntary)

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Challenges:

Measuring emigration

Stock / Flow consistency

Validity of residence permit vs. intended duration of stay

Unknown country of next/previous residence

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After the first round of the new data collection under Reg. 862/2007

What are the main difficulties?

What can be improved?

Recommendations? (exchange of best practices)

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The process of transition towards reliable and comparable European migration data

has already started will take time requires compromise and co-operation requires high level political commitment

Thank you to all national data suppliers for their work and cooperation