The French Presidency of the EU Council is expected to finalise next week with the Commission the system chosen to launch the registration platform for Ukrainian refugees benefiting from temporary protection in the EU.
After preparing an agreement with the Member States to exchange their registration data of Ukrainians on their territory and make them interoperable, the Commission will be mandated to exercise a kind of control over these different data.
A hit system should make it possible to see that a Ukrainian already has temporary protection in a Member State.
An agreement with the Commission could be signed on 18 May, two sources said, with the platform becoming operational on 1 June after a testing phase.
EURODAC
The French Presidency, for its part, recently circulated a new compromise on the EURODAC asylum seeker database, proposing to include a category for persons benefiting from temporary protection.
The idea was reportedly not rejected in a preliminary discussion on 6 May (see EUROPE 12946/19), but questions were raised about the timing, as an adoption of this EURODAC Regulation could take place after the expiry of the temporary protection for Ukrainians, which is supposed to last only 2 years.
The French Presidency has opened up requests for input from Member States on its draft compromise and still expects an agreement at the Home Affairs Council on 10 June. (Original version in French by Solenn Paulic)