New EU asylum rules

EU Pact on Migration and Asylum

In 2024, the EU legislators adopted the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum (the EU Pact), and it will change the EU asylum rules.

Denmark has a legal reservation to the Common European Asylum System (CEAS), but has still applied selected files, such as the regulations on Dublin and Eurodac.

Denmark is also bound by the Return Directive due to the Danish participation in the Schengen cooperation.

Read more about the new EU asylum rules here:

EU Pact on migration and asylum

Which changes will the EU Pact cause to the Danish asylum system? 

As a continuation of the current parallel agreements and the Schengen cooperation, Denmark has decided to join: 

• A new screening procedure 
• The reformed Eurodac rules 
• The part of the regulation on asylum and migration management (AMMR) that replaces the responsibility rules of the Dublin III Regulation (not the new solidarity mechanism)
• The parts of the new Crisis rules which  regulates deadlines in relation to the responsibility rules
• A new national asylum border procedure that is similar to the EU asylum border procedure and can be activated by the Minister of Immigration and Integration
• The new regulation on a return border procedure that regulates return of asylum seekers, who have had their claims rejected in the national asylum border procedure