El número de personas que intentaron entrar de forma irregular en UE disminuyó en un 50%.

Alrededor de 31 000 personas fueron detenidas en las fronteras de la UE en 2009 - una fuerte caída en comparación con 2008, tal y como lo pone de manifiesto el Informe Eurodac 2009. También se señala que la Unión Europea recibió 236 000 solicitudes de asilo, aunque pero casi una cuarta parte de ellas fueron de personas que presentaron solicitudes múltiples.

EURODAC annual report issued
"EURODAC is an essential part of the EU’s Common European Asylum System" stated Commissioner Cecilia Malmström, EU Commissioner responsible for Home Affairs. "The report published today shows the effective contribution of this EU-wide fingerprint database in managing asylum applications, by helping to establish which Member State should examine each of them through the storage and comparison of the fingerprints of asylum seekers and illegal entrants and preventing the submission of multiple asylum requests".
The 2009 annual report on the activities of EURODAC (the EU wide biometric tool which helps determine which Member State is responsible for examining an asylum claim), shows that in 2009, the number of registered asylum applications rose by 8%, which means that the increasing trend of the previous two years continued.At the same time, the number of registered irregular entrants fell by 50% in 2009. The number of searches in the database on the basis of fingerprints of third country nationals found illegally on the territory of the Member States increased by 12.7%. 23.3% of the asylum applications in 2009 were multiple (i.e. second or more) asylum applications. However, this figure includes not only the instances in which persons applied for asylum more than once, but also a number of instances in which the fingerprints of an asylum seeker are recorded both by the Member State in which he applied for asylum and in the Member State ultimately deemed responsible for consideration of the asylum claim. The Commission proposed to remedy this distortion in its proposal to amend the EURODAC Regulation, adopted in December 2008. 

Más información:

• EU’s biometric database continues to ensure effective management of the Common European Asylum System (europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do).  
• Rapport annuel au Parlement européen et au Conseil sur les activités de l’unité centrale d’EURODAC en 2009.EURODAC 2009 (www.migrarconderechos.es/legislationMastertable/legislacion/2010_415).