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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