(a) European Refugee Fund

  Main Debates Burden Shifting v. Burden Sharing Main Points  Is financial burden-sharing effective or are other forms of cooperation required amongst Member States? Is the Distribution Criteria Appropriate? (ie. States with Largest Asylum Seeker Numbers Receive Greatest Proportion of Funds). EU Instruments Decision No 573/2007/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 May 2007 establishing the European Refugee Fund for the period 2008 to 2013 as part of the General programme‘Solidarity and Management of Migration Flows’ and repealing Council Decision 2004/904/EC, OJ L 144, 6 June 2007. ‘Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament establishing a framework programme on Solidarity and the Management of Migration Flows for the period 2007–2013. Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and the Council establishing the European Refugee Fund for the period 2008–2013 as part of the General programme “Solidarity and Management of Migration Flows”’, COM (2005) 123, 6 April 2005. ReadingsECRE, Comments by the European Council on Refugee and Exiles on the Commission Proposal for a Council Decision establishing the European Refugee Fund for the period 2005–2010, March 2004.