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This Synthesis Report presents the main findings of the European Migration Network (EMN) study ‘Comparative overview of national protection statuses in the European Union (EU) and Norway’.
The study explores the key characteristics of non-harmonised
protection statuses and the types of national statuses granted
by Member States and Norway to address a protection need not covered by international protection statuses as set out in the
Qualification Directive or temporary protection in the Temporary Protection Directive.
The report includes an overview of national statuses granted
by particular protection ground, reviewing the conditions and
rights associated with each. It also considers commonalities
and differences with the minimum standards established at EU level for the EU-harmonised statuses (refugee status, subsidiary protection and, in one case, temporary protection).
This assessment is timely, in light of efforts undertaken since
2016 to strengthen the Common European Asylum System
(CEAS) to complement existing legal pathways to admit those
in need of protection to the EU, including the proposed Union
Resettlement Framework Regulation and, increasingly, other legal pathways for persons in need of protection.
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