The new rules, already agreed by Parliament and national governments, will be debated by Parliament as a whole on 11 June and put to a vote the next day. Some 330,000 asylum applicants were registered in EU countries in 2012.









Next steps





If Parliament approves these rules, the new system take effect in the second half of 2015.





The Dublin rules on transfers of asylum seekers will take effect six months after their legal entry into force (i.e. at the start of 2014).







