Utlendingsdirektoratet/The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration(UDI)

http://www.udi.no

Styring og Regelverk/ Enhet for statistikk og analyse (ESA)

Analysis and Development Department/ Statistics and Analysis Division

Utlendingsdirektoratet
Postboks 8108 Dep.
0032 Oslo

Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics on European statistics, which was ratified in March 2009, is applicable to the European Statistical System (ESS), and has been adopted as a regulation pursuant to the Norwegian Statistics Act.

The regulation on European statistics forms the legal framework for the development, preparation and dissemination of European statistics. The regulation is also referred to as the European "Statistics Act", and regulates the cooperation in the ESS.

Norway is a member of the ESS through the EEA agreement. The regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics on European statistics was incorporated into Annex XXI of the EEA agreement in December 2009. The regulation was also established in Norwegian law as a regulation pursuant to the Norwegian Statistics Act.

This metadata information is provided by the authorities of Norway to ensure compliance with the requirements of Article 4.4 (Dublin statistics) of Regulation (EU) 2020/851 Amending Regulation (EC) 862/2007 on Migration and International Protection.

As required by Article 9 of the Regulation (EU) 2020/851 Amending Regulation (EC) No 862/2007, Member States must report to Eurostat on the data sources used, the reasons for the selection of these sources and the effects of the selected data on the quality of the statistics. Member States shall provide Eurostat with all the information necessary to evaluate the quality, comparability and completeness of the statistical information.

The reference document used for assessing the compliance of the concepts and definitions in this metadata file is the document Dublin statistics - Eurostat Technical guidelines to Dublin statistics (see Annex).

The data contain information on:

• The number of requests for taking back or taking charge of an asylum seeker or a third-country national.
• The provisions on which the requests for taking back or taking charge are based.
• The decisions taken in response to the requests for taking back or taking charge.
• The number of unilateral decisions taken by Member States to examine the application of an asylum seeker
• The numbers of transfers to which the decisions taken in response to the requests for taking back or taking charge lead.
• The number of requests for information and responses on such requests.

The data collection is entirely based on register data.

Legal national framework relevant for Dublin statistics

Lov om utlendingers adgang til riket og deres opphold her (utlendingsloven)/ Forskrift om utlendingers adgang til riket og deres opphold her (utlendingsforskriften).

Act of 15 May 2008 on the entry of foreign nationals into The Kingdom of Norway and their stay in the realm and their stay here (Immigration Act) /Regulations of 15 October 2009 on the entry of foreign nationals into the Kingdom of Norway and their stay in the realm (Immigration Regulations).

ISO 3166 is the International Standard for country codes and codes for their subdivisions. Therefore the classification of Dublin data for reporting (GEO) and partner countries (PARTNER) is based on ISO-3166 (using alpha-2) with minor changes.

For any non-international concepts/breakdowns, classifications are based on Eurostat standards, e.g.:

• type of request (REQUEST)
• legal provisions of requests/decisions under 'Dublin' Regulation (LEG_PROV)
• duration of transfer (DURATION)
• type of decision on requests (DECISION)
• type of applicant (APPLICANT)

Migration and international protection – Dublin statistics

Member States shall examine the application of any third country national who applies for asylum at the border or in their territory of any one of them.
The application shall be examined by a single Member State, which shall be the one which the criteria set out in Chapter III of Regulation (EC) 604/2013 indicates is responsible.
Under certain circumstances, each Member State may examine an application for asylum lodged by a third-country national even if such examination is not its responsability according to the criteria laid down in Regulation (EC) 604/2013.
In such cases, this Member State shall become the Member State responsible for the examination of the application.
The Member State conducting a procedure for determining the Member State responsible or the Member State which has been requested to take charge of or to take back the applicant shall inform the Member State previously responsible.

Requests: For the incoming (resp. outgoing) dataset. Requests to take back to take charge of an asylum applicant or requests for information addressed by the Member States (Partner) to the declaring Member State (Geo) (resp. by the declaring Member State (Geo) to the Member States (Partner)).

Total number of requests: Total number of requests to take back and to take charge of an asylum applicant.

Total number of taking charge requests: Total number of taking charge requests
This category is split in three categories based on the Regulation (EC) 604/2013.

Taking charge requests: Family reasons (Art.6, Art.7, Art.8, Art.14): Number of taking charge requests for family reasons. See Regulation (EC) 604/2013 for more details on Art.6,7,8 and 14.

Taking charge requests: Documentation and entry reasons (Art.9, Art.10, Art.11, Art.12):Number of taking charge requests for documentation and entry reasons. See Regulation (EC) 604/2013 for more details on Art.9,10 and 11.

Taking charge requests: Humanitarian reasons (Art.15): Number of taking charge requests for humanitarian resons. See Regulation (EC) 604/2013 for more details on Art.15.

Total number of taking back requests: Total number of taking back requests
This category is split in four categories based on the Regulation (EC) 604/2013.

Taking back requests: Withdrawal of application during Dublin procedure (Art.4.5):Number of taking back request due to the withdrawal on application during Dublin procedure. Regulation (EC) 604/2013 for more details on Art.4.5.

Taking back requests: Under examination - no permission to stay  (Art.16.1.c):Number of taking back request due to the presence of the asylum applicant in a country without permission to stay wheb this country differs from the country where his application is under examination. Regulation (EC) 604/2013 for more details on Art.16.1.c.

Taking back requests: Withdrawal - new application  (Art.16.1.d): Number of taking back request due to the withdrawal of an application under examination in a country while lodging a new application in another country. See Regulation (EC) 604/2013 for more details on Art.16.1.d.

Taking back requests: Rejection - no permission to stay  (Art.16.1.e): Number of taking back request due to the withdrawal due to the presence of asylum applicant in a country without permission to stay and whose application has been rejected in the country wherehis application was examined.

Total EURODAC: Number of incoming (resp. incoming accepted, incoming refused, outgoing, outgoing accpeted, outgoing refused) requests based on Eurodac hits.

Taking charge requests based on EURODAC: Number of incoming (resp. incoming accepted, incoming refused, outgoing, outgoing accepted, outgoing refused) taking charge requests based on Eurodac hits.

Taking back requests based EURODAC: Number of incoming (resp. incoming accepted, incoming refused, outgoing, outgoing acceeted, outgoing refused) taking back requests based on Eurodac hits.

Total number of pending requests at the end of reference period:Number of requests for take charge and take back addressed by other Member States to which a response is pending at the end of the reference period.

Total number of requests for information: Number of request for information submitted by the Member States (Partner) to the declaring Member State (Geo).

Number of answers to requests for information: Number of request for information provided by the Member States (Partner) to the declaring Member State (Geo).

The text of Art.4 of Regulation (EC) 862/2007 on Migration and international protection refers in general to statistics based on the number of persons and not on the number of applications. However, the article describing the 'Dublin' statistics (Art.4.4) refers to statistics based on the number of requests. Commission services recommend that Art.4.4 (more precisely 4.4.a, 4.4.c and 4.4.d) is interpreted as referring to the number of persons concerned by each request, decision and transfer.

Please see «concepts and definitions»

Norway

Collected since 2008.

Not applicable.

Number (number of requests, number of decisions, number of transfers, etc.)

2022 Calendar year.

Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics on European statistics, which was ratified in March 2009, is applicable to the European Statistical System (ESS), and has been adopted as a regulation pursuant to the Norwegian Statistics Act.

The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI) is one of 10 public authorities in addition to Statistics Norway that is responsible for official statistics according to the Statistics Act.

No arrangements or procedures. Data is only shared between the producer and Eurostat.

Defined in the Norwegian Statistics Act and the European Statistics Code of Practise.

We do not have a national policy for how long after the end of reference period the data are released.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

No fixed release calendar.

No fixed.

We publish the Dublin statistics on the web page for the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration, www.udi.no.

The data is updated yearly.

No regular or ad-hoc press releases.

No regular or ad-hoc publications in which the data are made available to the public.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not available.

1 to 1 ratio

National programme for offiicial statistics define the requirement for official statistics and all statistics must satisfy a set of common quality requirements.

Section 5 of the Statistics Act. Requirements regarding official statistics:

1. Official statistics shall be developed, produced and disseminated in a professionally independent, impartial, objective, reliable and cost-effective manner.

2. The development, production and dissemination of official statistics shall be based on uniform standards and harmonised methods. The statistics shall be relevant, accurate, timely, punctual, accessible and clear, comparable and coherent.

The data are extracted from case handling system and this ensures high quality of the data. 

Not applicable.

• Good quality (extensive quality) - all quality requirements are met according to the standard quality criteria and in line with the Technical Guidelines for the data collection of Dublin statistics (Annex).
• Sufficient quality (acceptable quality) - minimum quality requirements are met: minor issues exist which need to be improved.
• Poor quality (inadequate quality) - the data do not meet the minimum quality requirements: important/many issues exist which affect the quality of the data and which need to be solved.

The statistics collected under Regulation (EC) 862/2007 are used by a wide range of users at national, European and International level to cover various usersʼ needs.

Users of Dublin statistics : User categories are the general public and media organisations. The main interest is to compare the national situation with the situation within the whole Dublin system.

Unmet user needs (on statistics) and reasons why these needs cannot be satisfied (at national and international level) : Citizenship information would increase user satisfaction.

We do not conduct user satisfaction surveys.

See below.

100%.

Completeness is the extent to which all requested Dublin statistics are provided to Eurostat, according to the data provisions foreseen by Articles 4.4. of Regulation (EC) 862/2007 (as amended by Regulation (EU) 2020/851) and by the Technical Guidelines for Dublin statistics (Annex).

• Complete - The statistics are complete: the dataset and all requested breakdowns are available, as foreseen by Regulation (EC) 862/2007 (as amended by Regulation (EU) 2020/851) and the Technical Guidelines for the data collection of Dublin statistics (Annex)
• Incomplete - The statistics are incomplete: the dataset is available but some of the requested breakdowns are not available, as foreseen by Regulation (EC) 862/2007 (as amended by Regulation (EU) 2020/851) and the Technical Guidelines for the data collection of Dublin statistics (Annex)
• Not available - The statistics are not available: the dataset is not available, that is all the requested breakdowns are missing, as foreseen by Regulation (EC) 862/2007 (as amended by Regulation (EU) 2020/851) and the Technical Guidelines for the data collection of Dublin statistics (Annex)
• Not applicable - The statistics are Not applicable: the concept/process is not used or it does not exist in the country

See below.

Accuracy is the closeness of the data to the exact or true values that the statistics were intended to measure. Reliability is the closeness of the initial provided value to the subsequent (revised) value.

Assessment of the accuracy of the national Dublin statistics, at dataset level

• High = 100 % accuracy. The reported statistics measure accurately the target population, as foreseen by Regulation (EC) 862/2007 (as amended by Regulation (EU) 2020/851) and as defined in the Technical Guidelines for Dublin statistics (Annex)
• Good = 95 - 99 % accuracy. The reported statistics do not cover accurately the target population and a small part of the targeted population is missing, or a small part of non-targeted (erroneous) population is included in the reported statistics; the bias/error in the reported statistics is expected to be small
• Low = 80 - 94 % accuracy. The reported statistics do not cover accurately the target population and a large part of the targeted population is missing, or a large part of non-targeted (erroneous) population is included in the reported statistics; the bias/error in the reported statistics is expected to be large
• Very low = less than 80 % accuracy. The reported statistics do not cover accurately the target population and a very large part of the targeted population is missing, or a very large part of non-targeted (erroneous) population is included in the reported statistics; the bias/error in the reported statistics is expected to be very large

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

See below.

See below.

See the file ‘Proportion of units (persons) reported in the statistics that do not belong to the target populationʼ in annex.

Not applicable.

See concept 13.3.4 Processing Error.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not available.

Not applicable.

See below concepts 14.1.1 and 14.1.2.

- Number of days (on average) after the end of the reference period at which the country is able to report the first/preliminary data, at the earliest : 

 14 days.

- Reasons for possible long production of the first/preliminary data and plans to improve the situation : 

The reason for any delay is caused by other matters of higher priority, often ad-hoc related activities.

- Number of days (on average) after the end of the reference period at which the country is able to report the final data, at the earliest : 

 21 days.

- Reasons for possible long production of the final data and plans to improve the situation : 

The reason for any delay is caused by other matters of higher priority, often ad-hoc related activities.

Data for 2022 were mainly delivered with delays. Seven indicators on time, five delivered in June, and five delivered in September.

Not applicable.

See below.

Not applicable.

Assessment of possible sources of lack of comparability between countries, due to discrepancies from Eurostat concepts, definitions or due to differences in methods.

Register data is comparable over time.

All years from 2009.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Full consistency.

Not available.

If errors in the datasets are discovered, the are revised and submitted.

If errors in the datasets are discovered, the are revised and submitted.

Not available.

See below.

Not applicable.

Administrative data from Asylum and Dublin processing collected by The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI). Processing is done in a Knowledge Guided Case Managment System where Eurodac and DublinNet communication is integrated. All administrative events are accessible from the Reporting Database which is the foundation of this statistics.

Daily.

The data is collected daily for operational use and distributed in Dashboards. The data is organised in tables with in the Dublin data mart.

Before being loaded in the database, internal consistency of the file is ensured.

Not available.

Not applicable.

No adjustment.

Not applicable.