Applying the statelessness provisions in the EU Pact on Migration & Asylum May 2026 indications of statelessness among children and referral to appropriate procedures for the determination of statelessness/nationality, and by promoting this guidance among guardianship services. 5. Frontex Ensures that all Frontex staff have received training on statelessness and are equipped with adequate knowledge of statelessness when conducting operations Ensures that it has adequate capacity, knowledge, and training on statelessness to provide operational support to Member States on screening, in particular to support the training of screening authorities (particularly where police or border authorities are competent) to fully observe their obligations to identify and record indications of statelessness 6. Eurostat Ensures that data collection mechanisms provide for the possibility to identify and record (indications of) statelessness with a separate field for this purpose, as well as to record different nationalities or statelessness for different family members including children Facilitates improved harmonisation and reporting of data on statelessness, including clear definitions for the use of nationality categories (for example, avoiding potentially overlapping categories such as ‘Palestinian’ and ‘stateless’, ensuring clear guidance is provided to Member States to improve the quality of data) to support monitoring of the implementation of new statelessness provisions 7. European Parliament Ensures that in its monitoring and oversight role, the statelessness provisions and fundamental rights of stateless persons are being fully and adequately applied in practice Passes resolutions that call on Member States to introduce stronger safeguards and protections for stateless persons in line with international law and human rights standards 8. UNHCR Incorporates language and recommendations on statelessness into publications, tools, messaging, and advocacy interventions at regional and national levels to ensure statelessness is mainstreamed across UNHCR’s engagement with the EU and Member States on application and monitoring of the Pact Undertakes activities to ensure that the Pact’s statelessness provisions are applied in accordance with international law and UNHCR guidance, in particular the Handbook on Protection of Stateless Persons 9. Civil society, legal, and other support providers Ensure they have adequate knowledge and capacity to support stateless individuals and those with undetermined nationality to be properly identified and to access their rights and appropriate routes to protection and/or to signpost them to specialist providers Adequately mainstream statelessness knowledge, capacity, and information in their services, programmes, training, resources, and advocacy relating to application of the Pact statelessness provisions

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