unaccompanied asylum seeking children in the EU

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Dear European Asylum Support Office,

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which contain the following information:

Following the closure of the Calais refugee camp by the French authorities in October 2016, many UASC/children fled the area or were disbursed elsewhere. Some children fled without being accommodated by the French authorities. My questions concern the fate of these children:

1. How many UASC did each member state of the EU accept? What was the nationality of these children?

2. How many UASC were granted asylum and how many are still awaiting an asylum decision? Please provide information in terms of the nationality and number of UASC in each member state.

3. How many UASC and from which countries are unaccounted for following the closure of the Calais camp.

Yours faithfully,

John Campbell

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Dear Mr Campbell,

 

Thank you for your e-mail dated 14/12/2017 with request for obtaining
information concerning the fate of the UASC/children following the closure
of the Calais refugee camp.

 

We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents,
which was processed and registered today, under reference number 8098.

 

In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to
European Parliament, Council and Commission documents and Decision nº 6 of
the Management Board of EASO laying down practical arrangements regarding
public access to documents of EASO, your application will be handled
within 15 working days from the day of registration. The time limit will
expire on 17/1/2018. In case this time limit needs to be extended, you
will be informed in due course.

 

Yours sincerely

 

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European Asylum Support Office
MTC Block A, Winemakers Wharf, Grand Harbour Valletta, MRS 1917, Malta
Tel: [2]+356 22487500
Email: [3][email address]
Website: [4]http://easo.europa.eu

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This message, and its attachments, cannot be construed as automatically
constituting any form of commitment by EASO, unless its content clearly
indicates otherwise. This message may contain sensitive information and is
intended solely for the individual named. Any unauthorized disclosure, use
or dissemination is prohibited. If you have received this message by
mistake, please notify the sender immediately and permanently destroy both
the message and its contents.

 

 

 

European Asylum Support Office

MTC Block A, Winemakers Wharf, Grand Harbour Valletta, MRS 1917, Malta

Tel: +356 22487500 <[8]tel:%2B356%2022487500>Email: [9][email address]

Website: [10]http://easo.europa.eu <[11]http://easo.europa.eu/
<[12]https://www.youtube.com/user/EASOChannel>
<[13]https://www.facebook.com/easo.eu>
<[14]http://easo.europa.eu/news-events/newsle...>

This message, and its attachments, cannot be construed as automatically
constituting any form of commitment by EASO, unless its content clearly
indicates otherwise. This message may contain sensitive information and is
intended solely for the individual named. Any unauthorized disclosure, use
or dissemination is prohibited. If you have received this message by
mistake, please notify the sender immediately and permanently destroy both
the message and its contents.

 

On 14/12/2017, 17:23, "John Campbell"
<[15][FOI #4868 email]> wrote:

 

    Dear European Asylum Support Office,

   

    Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as
developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which contain
the following information:

   

    Following the closure of the Calais refugee camp by the French
authorities in October 2016, many UASC/children fled the area or were
disbursed elsewhere. Some children fled without being accommodated by the
French authorities. My questions concern the fate of these children:

   

    1. How many UASC did each member state of the EU accept? What was the
nationality of these children?

   

    2. How many UASC were granted asylum and how many are still awaiting
an asylum decision? Please provide information in terms of the nationality
and number of UASC in each member state.

   

    3. How many UASC and from which countries  are unaccounted for
following the closure of the Calais camp.

   

    Yours faithfully,

   

    John Campbell

   

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    This is a request for access to information under Article 15 of the
TFEU and, where applicable, Regulation 1049/2001 which has been sent via
the AsktheEU.org website.

   

    Please kindly use this email address for all replies to this request:
[16][FOI #4868 email]

   

    If [17][email address] is the wrong address for information
requests to European Asylum Support Office, please tell the AsktheEU.org
team on email [18][email address]

   

    This message and all replies from European Asylum Support Office will
be published on the AsktheEU.org website. For more information see our
dedicated page for EU public officials at
[19]https://www.asktheeu.org/en/help/officers

   

    

    

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EASO INFO would like to recall the message, "access to documents request - unaccompanied asylum seeking children in the EU".

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Dear Mr Campbell,

 

Thank you for your e-mail dated 14/12/2017 with request for obtaining
information concerning the fate of the UASC / children following the
closure of the Calais refugee camp.

 

We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents,
which was processed and registered today, under reference number 8098.

 

In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to
European Parliament, Council and Commission documents and Decision nº 6 of
the Management Board of EASO laying down practical arrangements regarding
public access to documents of EASO, your application will be handled
within 15 working days from the day of registration. The time limit will
expire on 17/1/2018. In case this time limit needs to be extended, you
will be informed in due course.

 

Yours sincerely

 

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European Asylum Support Office
MTC Block A, Winemakers Wharf, Grand Harbour Valletta, MRS 1917, Malta
Tel: [2]+356 22487500
Email: [3][email address]
Website: [4]http://easo.europa.eu

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This message, and its attachments, cannot be construed as automatically
constituting any form of commitment by EASO, unless its content clearly
indicates otherwise. This message may contain sensitive information and is
intended solely for the individual named. Any unauthorized disclosure, use
or dissemination is prohibited. If you have received this message by
mistake, please notify the sender immediately and permanently destroy both
the message and its contents.

 

 

 

European Asylum Support Office

MTC Block A, Winemakers Wharf, Grand Harbour Valletta, MRS 1917, Malta

Tel: +356 22487500 <[8]tel:%2B356%2022487500>Email: [9][email address]

Website: [10]http://easo.europa.eu <[11]http://easo.europa.eu/
<[12]https://www.youtube.com/user/EASOChannel>
<[13]https://www.facebook.com/easo.eu>
<[14]http://easo.europa.eu/news-events/newsle...>

This message, and its attachments, cannot be construed as automatically
constituting any form of commitment by EASO, unless its content clearly
indicates otherwise. This message may contain sensitive information and is
intended solely for the individual named. Any unauthorized disclosure, use
or dissemination is prohibited. If you have received this message by
mistake, please notify the sender immediately and permanently destroy both
the message and its contents.

 

On 14/12/2017, 17:23, "John Campbell"
<[15][FOI #4868 email]> wrote:

 

    Dear European Asylum Support Office,

   

    Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as
developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which contain
the following information:

   

    Following the closure of the Calais refugee camp by the French
authorities in October 2016, many UASC/children fled the area or were
disbursed elsewhere. Some children fled without being accommodated by the
French authorities. My questions concern the fate of these children:

   

    1. How many UASC did each member state of the EU accept? What was the
nationality of these children?

   

    2. How many UASC were granted asylum and how many are still awaiting
an asylum decision? Please provide information in terms of the nationality
and number of UASC in each member state.

   

    3. How many UASC and from which countries  are unaccounted for
following the closure of the Calais camp.

   

    Yours faithfully,

   

    John Campbell

   

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    This is a request for access to information under Article 15 of the
TFEU and, where applicable, Regulation 1049/2001 which has been sent via
the AsktheEU.org website.

   

    Please kindly use this email address for all replies to this request:
[16][FOI #4868 email]

   

    If [17][email address] is the wrong address for information
requests to European Asylum Support Office, please tell the AsktheEU.org
team on email [18][email address]

   

    This message and all replies from European Asylum Support Office will
be published on the AsktheEU.org website. For more information see our
dedicated page for EU public officials at
[19]https://www.asktheeu.org/en/help/officers

   

    

    

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Dear Mr Campbell,

 

Kindly find enclosed a letter from Mr José Carreira, Executive Director of
EASO, in response to your request for access to documents.

 

In order to ensure proper functioning of the hyperlinks, please find text
of the letter below:

 

Dear Mr. Campbell,

Reference is made to your e-mail dated 14 December 2017, in which you made
a request for obtaining information concerning the fate of the UASC /
children following the closure of the Calais refugee camp. Your request
has been registered under number 8098.

Your application has been treated as a request falling under the
provisions of Regulation No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European
Parliament, Council and Commission documents, which also applies for EASO
documents, and in accordance with Decision No 6 laying down practical
arrangements regarding public access to the documents of EASO, as adopted
by its Management Board on 20 September 2011.

In a preliminary note, I wish to reiterate EASO's mandate, which primarily
lies with asylum seekers only, i.e. those persons who, regardless on how
they have travelled to the EU (either regularly or irregularly), have made
a formal application for international protection with the responsible
first-instance asylum authority. However, the target group of your
question may not necessarily fulfil these conditions.

Although EASO receives information on claimed UAM applications lodged in
the EU28, plus Norway and Switzerland (referred to as the EU+), this
information is only disaggregated by reporting country. The figures
exchanged with EASO in the context of the Early Warning and Preparedness
System (EPS) are provided voluntarily and considered provisional. EASO
cannot release this information at the level of individual countries as
these numbers have not been officially validated given the very short time
limits under which it is exchanged with EASO.

You may nevertheless be interested to know that under the European Council
Regulation (EC) No 862/2007, Eurostat collects and disseminates publicly
on its website statistics on international protection
([1]http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/asylum-...).

In particular, a dataset on [2]Asylum applicants considered to be
unaccompanied minors including official statistics for all EU28 States as
well as Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein and Iceland broken down by
age, gender and citizenship of the applicant is published annually since
2008.

The following tailored extraction will lead you to a table indicating the
number of [3]asylum applicants considered to be unaccompanied minors
reported by France broken down by citizenship applicants between 2008 and
2016.

 

In addition, please note that the topic of unaccompanied minors is also
developed to some extent in [4]EASO Annual report 2016  (section 4.1.1.
Vulnerable applicants).

If you want this position to be reviewed you should write to EASO at the
address below, confirming your initial request. Your confirmatory request
should be sent within 15 working days from receipt of this letter. I will
inform you of the result of this review within 15 working days from the
registration of your request, either granting you access to the document
or confirming the refusal. In the latter case, you will be informed of how
you can take further action. All correspondence should be sent by one of
the following methods:

 

By post:

The Executive Director

European Asylum Support Office (EASO)

MTC Block A, Winemakers Wharf,

Grand Harbour Valletta, MRS 1917

Malta

 

By electronic mail:

[5][email address]

 

Yours sincerely,

 

José Carreira

Executive Director

 

Best regards,

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European Asylum Support Office
MTC Block A, Winemakers Wharf, Grand Harbour Valletta, MRS 1917, Malta
Tel: [7]+356 22487500
Email: [8][email address]
Website: [9]http://easo.europa.eu

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This message, and its attachments, cannot be construed as automatically
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indicates otherwise. This message may contain sensitive information and is
intended solely for the individual named. Any unauthorized disclosure, use
or dissemination is prohibited. If you have received this message by
mistake, please notify the sender immediately and permanently destroy both
the message and its contents.

 

 

From: EASO INFO
Sent: 15 December 2017 18:03
To: '[FOI #4868 email]'
<[FOI #4868 email]>
Cc: Schembri, Jean-Pierre <[email address]>; Grigore,
George Alexandru <[email address]>
Subject: Re: access to documents request - unaccompanied asylum seeking
children in the EU
Importance: High

 

Dear Mr Campbell,

 

Thank you for your e-mail dated 14/12/2017 with request for obtaining
information concerning the fate of the UASC / children following the
closure of the Calais refugee camp.

 

We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents,
which was processed and registered today, under reference number 8098.

 

In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to
European Parliament, Council and Commission documents and Decision nº 6 of
the Management Board of EASO laying down practical arrangements regarding
public access to documents of EASO, your application will be handled
within 15 working days from the day of registration. The time limit will
expire on 17/1/2018. In case this time limit needs to be extended, you
will be informed in due course.

 

Yours sincerely

 

[13]cid:image001.jpg@01D3726C.6EF26490

European Asylum Support Office
MTC Block A, Winemakers Wharf, Grand Harbour Valletta, MRS 1917, Malta
Tel: [14]+356 22487500
Email: [15][email address]
Website: [16]http://easo.europa.eu

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This message, and its attachments, cannot be construed as automatically
constituting any form of commitment by EASO, unless its content clearly
indicates otherwise. This message may contain sensitive information and is
intended solely for the individual named. Any unauthorized disclosure, use
or dissemination is prohibited. If you have received this message by
mistake, please notify the sender immediately and permanently destroy both
the message and its contents.

 

 

 

European Asylum Support Office

MTC Block A, Winemakers Wharf, Grand Harbour Valletta, MRS 1917, Malta

Tel: +356 22487500 <[20]tel:%2B356%2022487500>Email:
[21][email address]

Website: [22]http://easo.europa.eu <[23]http://easo.europa.eu/
<[24]https://www.youtube.com/user/EASOChannel>
<[25]https://www.facebook.com/easo.eu>
<[26]http://easo.europa.eu/news-events/newsle...>

This message, and its attachments, cannot be construed as automatically
constituting any form of commitment by EASO, unless its content clearly
indicates otherwise. This message may contain sensitive information and is
intended solely for the individual named. Any unauthorized disclosure, use
or dissemination is prohibited. If you have received this message by
mistake, please notify the sender immediately and permanently destroy both
the message and its contents.

 

On 14/12/2017, 17:23, "John Campbell"
<[27][FOI #4868 email]> wrote:

 

    Dear European Asylum Support Office,

   

    Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as
developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which contain
the following information:

   

    Following the closure of the Calais refugee camp by the French
authorities in October 2016, many UASC/children fled the area or were
disbursed elsewhere. Some children fled without being accommodated by the
French authorities. My questions concern the fate of these children:

   

    1. How many UASC did each member state of the EU accept? What was the
nationality of these children?

   

    2. How many UASC were granted asylum and how many are still awaiting
an asylum decision? Please provide information in terms of the nationality
and number of UASC in each member state.

   

    3. How many UASC and from which countries  are unaccounted for
following the closure of the Calais camp.

   

    Yours faithfully,

   

    John Campbell

   

    -------------------------------------------------------------------

   

    This is a request for access to information under Article 15 of the
TFEU and, where applicable, Regulation 1049/2001 which has been sent via
the AsktheEU.org website.

   

    Please kindly use this email address for all replies to this request:
[28][FOI #4868 email]

   

    If [29][email address] is the wrong address for information
requests to European Asylum Support Office, please tell the AsktheEU.org
team on email [30][email address]

   

    This message and all replies from European Asylum Support Office will
be published on the AsktheEU.org website. For more information see our
dedicated page for EU public officials at
[31]https://www.asktheeu.org/en/help/officers

   

    

    

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