Traduction de «Filière d'immigration » (Français → Anglais) :

fighting illegal immigration and facilitating the readmission of illegal immigrants, including between third countries, and in particular, fighting the smuggling of and trafficking in human beings; discouraging illegal immigration and raising awareness of the risks related to it; improving capacities in the areas of border, visa and passport management, including the security of documents and the introduction of biometric data, and detection of forged documents; implementing effectively readmission agreements concluded with the Community and obligations arising out of international agreements; and assisting third countries in the man ...[+++]agement of illegal immigration and in the coordination of their policies;

Participants acknowledged that protected entry procedures and resettlement schemes, set up at EU level, could be elements of a comprehensive approach to asylum and immigration issues underpinned by responsibility and burden sharing with the regions of origin, the other elements of such an approach being the enhancement of protection capacities of the regions of origin, access to legal immigration channels as well as an effective return policy and measures against illegal immigration.

It is therefore vital that there are legal immigration channels, and that other attempts are being made to address the mixed flows issue, even if this could mean that some people, remaining committed to enter the EU, will be more frequently using illegal channels, when the asylum route is no longer available to them.

The elements for information exchange must include at least the following: early warning system on illegal immigration and facilitator networks; network of immigration liaison officers; information on the use of visas and border and travel documents in relation to illegal immigration; return-related issues.

Paragraph 43(1)(a)(iii) of the 1998 Action Plan calls for making the fight against illegal immigration networks one of the priorities of operational cooperation, particularly by using the national units as a network of national contact points responsible for dealing with them.

Illegal immigration networks - improvement of cooperation in visa policy as well as scrutiny during issuing visas; - effective border controls and border surveillance in countries from or through which people are smuggled; Art. 7A of the Treaty on European Union remains unaffected; - effective action against sea and air carriers transporting aliens without the requisite documents; - to the extent that it has not yet been done, the introduction of provisions that also penalize the illegal smuggling of aliens also into the territory of other participating States; - regulations governing the forfeiture of illegal profits from such crimes; - rapid return t ...[+++]o their home countries or countries of origin of aliens who have been smuggled in or have entered illegally in order to counteract promises by illegal immigration networks of long-term stay in the countries of destination, and to reduce their chances to recruit new victims for their illegal activities.