Translation of "Interruption de l'étude de la demande d'asile " (French → English) :

5. Observes that students with interrupted study patterns, especially young mothers, can suffer discrimination, and calls for the adoption of more flexible approaches in order to facilitate the resumption of studies or training after the birth of a child and the combining of studies with professional and family life;

Under the regulation foreign nationals, who have submitted an application for asylum before 1 April 2001 and have lived uninterruptedly in the Netherlands since 1 April 2001, would be granted ex officio a residence permit.

13. To further explore these assertions two studies on options for processing asylum claims external to the EU were commissioned by the Commission: the Study on the feasibility of processing asylum claims outside the EU against the background of the common European asylum system and the goal of a common asylum procedure (published in March 2003), and the Study on the feasibility of setting up resettlement schemes in EU Member States or at EU level against the background of the Common European Asylum System and the goal of a Common Asylum Procedure

The Commission will intensify its work on "frontloading", in particular through further study of the question of the single ("one stop-shop") asylum procedure It will be mindful of the results of a study launched by the Commission, and to be shortly published as "Asylum- a single procedure in the context of the Common European Asylum System and the goal of a common asylum procedure".

A Commission study on the feasibility of processing asylum claims outside the EU against the background of the Common European Asylum System and the goal of a common asylum procedure identified five blueprints which Member States could consider when developing Protected Entry Procedures in the future, varying from the flexible use of the Visa Regime, to the development of a Schengen Asylum Visa.

The examination of these options in the context of a common asylum procedure requires prior consideration of a number of questions: role of the authorities in the Member States, diplomatic missions in regions of origin, Community institutions and the HCR, resultant costs and investments, conditions for examination of requests, choice of regions or countries of origin, scope in terms of protection (confined to refugees within the meaning of the Geneva Convention or extension to persons needing another form of international protection), quotas ...[+++] and distribution over the Member States, relationship with requests made in the context of the resettlement programme and spontaneous requests made in a Member State of the European Union, etc. The Commission will conduct feasibility studies.