Annexes to SEC(2011)1353 - Staff Working Paper Migration and Development accompanying the Communication on Global Approach to Migration and Mobility

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dossier SEC(2011)1353 - Staff Working Paper Migration and Development accompanying the Communication on Global Approach to Migration and Mobility.
document SEC(2011)1353 EN
date November 18, 2011
agreements, is often lacking. The influence of a number of public policies on migration patterns is usually overlooked. In case of crises or conflicts, variations in flows are difficult to cope with and could destabilise economies and weaken social cohesion. The predominance of the informal sector in many developing countries contributes to employment of irregular workers with all the subsequent problems of exploitation, trafficking, smuggling and social consequences or creates conditions for social dumping.

There is a growing need to promote migration governance in a development perspective at all levels, from international to national ones, and to improve a common understanding of the development and migration nexus, including the economic and social consequences of policies, be they in migration/asylum or in other sectors. This argues in favor of a deepening of the current reflection.

[1] COM 2005 (390) http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2005:0390:FIN:EN:PDF.

[2] COM 2006 (409) http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2006:0409:FIN:FR:PDF.

[3] The Stockholm Programme: An open and secure Europe serving the citizen (December 2009)

Council Conclusions of 18 November 2009 (Policy Coherence for Development)

Council Conclusions of 18 May 2009 (support to developing countries in coping with the crisis)

Council Conclusions 11 November 2008 (EU position for Doha FfD Conference)

Council conclusions on the evaluation of the Global Approach to Migration and on the partnership with countries of origin and transit (November 2008).

[4] Directive 2007/64/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of 13 November 2007 on payment services in the internal market http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2007:319:0001:01:EN:HTML.

[5] One-leg-out payments are transactions where either the payment account of the originator or of the beneficiary is located outside the Single Euro Payments Area, i.e. outside the European Economic Area, Switzerland and Monaco. .

[6] More information can be found at: http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/how/finance/dci/non_state_actors_en.htm The Non-state actors and local authorities in development 2011-2013 Strategy Paper specifically states that ‘initiatives and projects may have a cross-border character and/or involve national communities living abroad (such as diaspora organisations).

[7] COM(2010) 379.

[8] http://emn.intrasoft-intl.com/Downloads/prepareShowFiles.do;?entryTitle=03_Temporary and CIRCULAR MIGRATION: empirical evidence, current policy practice and future options.

[9]‘Evaluation of the concrete results obtained through projects financed under AENEAS and the Thematic Programme for Migration and Asylum’ (published in june 2011, reference 2010/254-538.

[10] http://emn.intrasoft-intl.com/Downloads/prepareShowFiles.do;?entryTitle=03_Temporary and CIRCULAR MIGRATION: empirical evidence, current policy practice and future options.

[11] ‘EU Strategy for Action on the Crisis in Human Resources for Health in Developing countries’ COM(2005) 642 final.

[12] ‘The EU Role in Global Health’ COM(2010) 128 final.

[13] Worldbank, 2010.

[14] Since its inception in 2007, more than 130 projects have been approved for funding under the Thematic Programme on Migration and Asylum. Migration and Development is the second biggest thematic intervention area, receiving approximately 30-35 % of the allocated funds. .

[15] Strategy for the effective implementation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights by the European Union, COM(2010) 573 final.

[16] COM(2011) 455,.

[17] World Bank data, 2008.