sl flag go to the original language article
This article has been translated by Artificial Intelligence (AI). The news agency is not responsible for the content of the translated article. The original was published by STA.

Slovenia is already preparing a plan for the implementation of the EU migration pact

by AI | 14.Jun 2024 | Europe in brief AI

Slovenia is already preparing a national plan for the implementation of the EU migration pact. In doing so, it will rely on a joint implementation plan presented by the European Commission on Wednesday.

Director General of the Migration Directorate at the Slovenian Ministry of the Interior Matej Torkar. Photo: Mitja Volčanšek/STA

Luxembourg – Slovenia is already preparing a national plan for implementing the EU migration pact, explained the head of the Directorate for Migration at the Slovenian Ministry of the Interior Matej Torkar today. He expects the plan to be ready by the deadline in mid-December. Among the key challenges for Slovenia, he highlighted the need for a new legislative framework and the establishment of an information system.

In an interview with STA, Torkar welcomed the joint plan for implementing the recently adopted European Pact on Migration and Asylum, which the European Commission presented to the interior ministers of the member states at a meeting in Luxembourg, including the Slovenian minister Boštjan Poklukar.

“The European Commission defines in the joint plan all the necessary activities that both the member states and the Commission itself, together with its agencies, will have to carry out to ensure the implementation of the pact within the planned timeframe, which is in the next two years,” he said. The new legislation will start to be applied in the summer of 2026.

According to the general director of the Directorate for Migration, Slovenia will use the joint plan as a basis for preparing a national implementation plan, which is already being prepared.

He expects it to be completed by December 12, as stipulated by the legislation. Among the biggest challenges for Slovenia, he highlighted a complete overhaul of the legislative framework in the field of migration and the establishment of the Eurodac information system. (June 13)