Reform of the EU Sugar Regime: Impacts on Sugar Production in Ireland

Table 1: Average Number of Asylum Applications per Year, 1985-99
(per thousand of population)

Against the background of the serious collective action problems involved
in this area, the German government in 1992 proposed a European wide
asylum burden-sharing system. The German proposal⁸ foresaw the
distribution of asylum seekers across Europe according to indicative
figures that were based on a distribution key composed of three criteria
which were given equal weight (population size, size of Member State
territory and GDP).⁹ The centrepiece of the German draft was the
introduction of a compulsory resettlement mechanism which would have
worked as follows: ‘Where the numbers admitted by a Member State
exceeds its indicative figure [...], other Member States which have not yet
reached their indicative figure [...] will accept persons from the first
State’.¹⁰ This proposal, however, did not find the necessary support among
other countries, with the UK in particular being strongly opposed to such
a scheme.¹¹

Since then, European states have instead agreed on a number of (limited)
steps towards harmonising asylum policy regulations across Europe,

⁸ Council Document 7773/94 ASIM 124.

⁹ The form of the suggested redistributive mechanism followed the example of German
domestic legislation, which stipulates a similar key for the distribution of asylum seekers
among the German Lander. See section 45 of the German Asylum Procedure Act
(Asylverfahrensgesetz).

¹⁰ Council Document 7773/94 ASIM 124.

¹¹ BMI, Pressemitteilung vom 1.12.1994, FAZ 27.1.1995, p.2; BT-Drs. 13/1070, 55;

Integrationsbericht, p.92.

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