The different national practices concerning granting of non-EU harmonised protection statuses , Date: 2010.12.01, format: report, area: Authority

The aim of this EMN Study was to analyse the different national practices concerning the granting of non-EU harmonised protection statuses.

This Synthesis Report aims to summarise and compare, within a European perspective, the findings from 23 National Reports (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom), prepared by the National Contact Points of the European Migration Network (EMN NCPs). The period covered by this study is up to mid-2010.

The Synthesis Report begins with a brief discussion of EU-harmonised protection statuses (Section 2) and then goes on to present the non-EU harmonised statuses granted in the Member States (Section 3). These non-EU harmonised protection statuses are organised on the basis of the grounds given for providing protection, such as medical reasons, family reasons, or the presence of obstacles to return. For each protection status granted on particular grounds, their related procedures, rights, duration of stay, implementation and standard of protection are presented.