Implementing the statelessness provisions in the EU Pact on Migration & Asylum - - - October 2024 Ensures that monitoring of Pact implementation specifically addresses and assesses how the statelessness provisions are being implemented in practice and identifies arears where additional support may be needed, including to ensure that stateless persons are channelled to appropriate procedures to determine their statelessness (APR Art 27(2)) and do not end up in situations of limbo when there is no prospect of return/removal Ensures that adequate resourcing is available to support the implementation of the new statelessness provisions, including resourcing for civil society initiatives Ensures that statelessness and nationality matters are raised and discussed as appropriate in relevant expert/network meetings especially those relating to Building Block 9 of the Common Implementation Plan Ensures that statelessness is adequately reflected in the five-year European Strategy on Migration and Asylum, as well as national strategies on migration and asylum due to be published in 2025 2. The EU Asylum Agency - Carefully considers the new statelessness provisions and seeks input from statelessness experts when revising and updating its products and activities to reflect the changes under the Pact - Ensures that appropriate information and guidance on how to implement the new statelessness provisions are incorporated into any new products relating to vulnerability, screening/registration, border procedures, and other relevant areas, and that national authorities and Agency staff have access to appropriate tools to support the implementation of these new provisions - Works with civil society experts to ensure the European Asylum Curriculum includes appropriate information and training on statelessness for all relevant officials including those responsible for screening, asylum determination, information provision, and other relevant areas. This should include guidance on how to identify indications of statelessness, for example by developing and/or incorporating standalone, accessible, operational guidelines for frontline officials - Ensure that statelessness is mainstreamed across all relevant products and activities, recognising the crosscutting nature of statelessness 3. The Fundamental Rights Agency - Revises its guidance for Member States on Fundamental Rights Monitoring to support monitoring of the specific rights of stateless persons in national independent fundamental rights monitoring mechanisms to ensure access to the rights and protections enshrined in the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and other fundamental rights, including Article 7 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child - Ensure that when updating its Guidance on Minors/Guardianship that this reflects the new provisions on statelessness and incorporates adequate information to support the identification of indications of statelessness among minors and referral to appropriate procedures for the determination of statelessness/nationality