Glossary
The EMN Glossary – as one of the key products of the EMN - improves comparability by enabling a common understanding and use of terms and definitions relating to asylum and migration. The Glossary draws on a variety of sources, but primarily on the legislation of the EU asylum and immigration acquis, and makes terms available in the majority of EU Member State languages.
The online version is regularly updated and available in various languages.
- BG: групово определяне на статут на бежанец
- CZ: vertimo nėra
- DE: Gruppenfeststellung der Flüchtlingseigenschaft
- EE: grupi pagulasseisundi kindlaksmääramine
- EN: group determination of refugee status
- ES: determinación colectiva de la condición de refugiado
- FI: pakolaisaseman ryhmämäärittäminen
- FR: détermination collective du statut de réfugié
- GA: stádas dídeanaí a chinneadh ar bhun grúpa
- GR: Ομάδα για τον καθορισμό του καθεστώτος του πρόσφυγα
- HU: we do not use this term, it could be translated as „csoportos elismerés menekültként”
- IT: riconoscimento collettivo dello status di rifugiato
- LT: pabėgėlio statuso suteikimas asmenų grupei
- LV: bēgļa statusa noteikšana grupai
- MT: Għarfien kollettiv tal-istatus ta’ rifuġjat
- NL: vaststelling van prima facie vluchtelingschap (syn.: vaststelling van vluchtelingschap zonder meer)
- NO: gruppeavgjørelse av flyktningstatus (b) / gruppeavgjerd av flyktningestatus (n)
- PL: grupowe uznanie statusu uchodźcy
- PT: determinação colectiva do estatuto de refugiado (refugiados prima facie)
- RO: determinarea statutului de refugiat în cazul unui grup
- SE: vertimo nėra
- SK: skupinové určenie štatútu utečenca
- SL: skupinsko določanje statusa begunca
A practice by which all persons forming part of a large-scale influx are regarded as refugees on a prima facie basis, ensuring that protection and assistance needs are met without prior individual determination of refugee status.
Refugee status must normally be determined on an individual basis, but when large populations are displaced under circumstances that indicate that most members of the population could individually be considered refugees, and where the need to provide protection and assistance is urgent and / or where it may not be possible for practical reasons to carry out an individual determination of refugee status, each member of that population in question can be regarded prima facie (in the absence of evidence to the contrary) as a refugee. In other words, the presumption is that individual members of the population concerned would be considered as refugees in need of protection. For more information, see UNHCR: Refugee status determination 2005.