The results of the Prague Process Senior Officials´ Meeting held in Berlin on 28-29 October 2014 are available for publication now.  Please, see below the summary of the main outcomes along with the information documents.

• Slovakia announced the dates of the 3rd Prague Process Ministerial Conference during its EU Presidency. The Ministerial Conference will take place in Bratislava on 3-4 October 2016.

• SOM endorsed the Road Map towards the 3rd Ministerial Conference.

• SOM endorsed the Terms of Reference for the Evaluation of the Implementation of the Prague Process Action Plan 2012 – 2016.

• SOM endorsed the results of the Pilot Projects 1 – 4 as the Prague Process standards in the given areas: 

• Prague Process Handbook and Guidelines on Concluding Readmission Agreements and Organising Returns;

• Prague Process Handbook on Managing Labour and Circular Migration;

• Prague Process Guidelines on Training in the Asylum Process – Approaches to Achieve Quality.

• SOM endorsed three new Pilot Projects 5 – 7, which have started on 1 November 2014:

• PP5: Establishing identity and/or nationality of irregular migrants (led by PL and RO);

• PP6: Enhancing students´ cross-border mobility (led by CZ and HU);

• PP7: Quality in Decision-making in the Asylum Process – Focus on Evidentiary Assessment, Due Process and Jurisprudence (led by SE and DE).

The draft version of the Prague Process Workplan 2015 includes the activities in the framework of the newly adopted projects. 

Also available for your information: Terms of Reference for the evaluation of the implementation of the Prague Process Action Plan 2012–2016 and Discussion paper.