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Our reference: 2024-0974

Dear Ms Gionco,

Further to your request for access to any opinion of the Legal Service,
issued between September 2015 and July 2018, on the legal and practical
feasibility of disembarkation options, including the external processing
of asylum applications and/or the return procedure in a third country,
Parliament would like to inform you that no such document has been
identified.

However, an opinion of the Legal Service, dated 9 November 2018, on the
Union asylum and immigration policies - Regional disembarkation platforms
and controlled centers is available [1]here.

[2]This briefing authored by the European Parliamentary Research Service
on Extraterritorial processing of asylum claims might also be useful in
your research.

On this basis, Parliament considers your application handled and the
procedure closed. Should you wish to submit any new requests for specific
Parliament documents, [3]please do not hesitate to come back to us.

Best regards,

TRANSPARENCY UNIT
European Parliament
Directorate-General for the Presidency
Directorate-General for Interinstitutional Affairs and Legislative
Coordination
[4][European Parliament request email]
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