International Centre for Migration Policy Development

EU Legislative Interests

• Pact on Migration and Asylum and its implementation • Return Regulation, EU list of safe third countries and review of safe third country criterion • Temporary Protection Directive • Resettlement Regulation, EU Resettlement Framework • Reception Directive, Solidarity mechanism on EU reception efforts • EU Action Plan on Integration and Inclusion • EU Strategy on Combatting Trafficking in Human Beings • Renewed EU Action Plan Against Migrant Smuggling • EU cooperation and dialogues on migration and development with third countries including association agreements • Other EC proposals in the area of migration, forced displacement, development, rule of law, humanitarian aid, foreign policy instruments • Other migration-related files: EU Skills Agenda including Talent Partnerships initiative, EU Blue Card Directive, Single Permit Directive, Long-Term Residence Directive, Qualification Regulation, Regulation on European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS), Smart Borders legislation including Entry/Exit System and operational management of large-scale IT systems, Legal migration and integration • Other relevant files: EU enlargement and integration including pre-accession processes, EC MFF proposal

Communication Activities

Selected Publications: - ICMPD (2025): Migration Outlook 2025; https://www.icmpd.org/publications/icmpd-migration-outlook - ICMPD (2025): Annual Report 2024; https://www.icmpd.org/news/growth-strength-and-agility-towards-sustainable-actions-icmpd-releases-its-annual-report-for-2024 Blog articles on various topics, incl. the EU Talent Pool, labour market matching, phasing out temporary protection, bridging climate, conflict and displacement in the horn of Africa. Link: https://www.icmpd.org/blog. Selected event: - Vienna Migration Conference, ICMPD’s annual flagship event for discussing the most burning issues in the field of migration together with political decision makers, government experts, and representatives from the academic world, the media and civil society: https://vienna-migration-conference.org/ In the framework of its EU-funded projects, ICMPD implements actions, carries out studies and publishes its gained knowledge. Recently for example a legal pathways to EU Member States mapping by the Migration Partnership Facility (https://www.migrationpartnershipfacility.eu/labour-mobility/mapping-legal-pathways-to-eu-member-states) or experience reports on an inclusive public dialogue for women as part of the Capacity Development Lab by the EU Global Diaspora Facility (https://diasporafordevelopment.eu/inclusive-public-dialogue-for-women-empowerment-in-kyrgyzstan/).

Interests Represented

Does not represent commercial interests

Member Of

In various forms, ICMPD is tasked with support and secretariat functions for several migration dialogues, connecting Europe, its Eastern neighbours and Asia (Budapest Process and Prague Process on the one hand, and Europe, Africa and the Middle East (MTM Dialogue, EUROMED Migration IV, Rabat Process and Khartoum Process) on the other, see here: https://www.icmpd.org/our-work/migration-dialogues.

Organisation Members

ICMPD has 21 European Member States: Austria (joined 1993), Switzerland (1993), Hungary (1995), Slovenia (1998), The Czech Republic (2001), Sweden (2002), Bulgaria (2003), Poland (2003), Croatia (2004), Portugal (2004), Slovakia (2006), Romania (2011), Bosnia and Herzegovina (2012), Serbia (2014), Republic of North Macedonia (2015), Malta (2018), Türkiye (2018), Germany (2020), Greece (2021), The Netherlands (2023), Ireland (2024). See also: https://www.icmpd.org/about-us/the-organisation.

Additional Information

REVENUE 1) Funding received from donors: - EU Institutions: 93,244,910 EUR - UN and other: 548,197 EUR IPSAS adjustment: -42,469,634 EUR Total funding from donors: 74,144,153 EUR 2) Membership contributions: 1,782,930 EUR 3) Contributions overhead: 4,936,355 EUR 4) Other income: 2,700,987 EUR (Consolidated indirect costs: 4,588,151) TOTAL: 78,976,274 EUR