Legal and institutional mapping of regular entry governance regimes in the European Union

ADMIGOV (Deliverable 1.1)

The Advancing Alternative Migration Governance (ADMIGOV) programme aims to promote an alternative migration governance model which takes seriously the principles laid out in the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants (NYD) and the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development to study how alternative approaches to migration governance can be better designed and put into practice.

ADMIGOV Work Package 1 (WP1) focuses on the regimes governing the entry of third-country nationals to the territory of the Member States of the European Union (EU), thus investigating a key moment and place of migration governance intervention. The purpose of this report is to map the EU legislative framework on regular entry for third-country nationals, which, together with the results from field research at the external land- sea- and air borders carried out within WP1, will serve to identify any divergence between entry governance models and practices. Based on this assessment, the goal of WP1 is to make recommendations on entry governance in light of the principles formulated in the NYD and the 2030 Agenda.