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Bulgaria: New integration regulation for refugees includes signature of an agreement
Tudorina Mihai
19 September 2016
On 10 August 2016, the Bulgarian government adopted a Regulation on the terms and conditions of making, implementing and terminating the agreement for the integration of foreigners granted asylum or international protection. Decree N 208/12.8.2016 adopting the Regulation was published in the State Gazette on 19 August 2016.
The new regulation will allow persons granted international protection to use a ‘package’ of services after signing the agreement. These ‘may include housing, kindergarten or school enrollment of accompanying minors, training in Bulgarian language, health insurance, professional orientation and training programs, etc.,’ says the government's press office.
The State Agency for Refugees (SAR) will be responsible for creating an ‘integration profile’ of each new grantee and to inform him/her when s/he can sign an Integration Agreement with authorities. Upon their agreement to sign such a document, an individual integration plan will be prepared. SAR will also be responsible for providing communication between municipalities and refugees.
Integration Agreements shall be suspended in cases of death, imprisonment, termination of the granted status or non-fulfillment of conditions in the agreement on behalf of either side. Authorities retain the right to unilaterally suspend an agreement if a foreign national ‘systematically violates public order; does not fulfill the measures under their individual plan; or refuses to accept an appropriate job offered to him’.
Such integration measures will be financed through European funding, as well as international, national and foreign financial instruments.
Source. European Site on Integration
The new regulation will allow persons granted international protection to use a ‘package’ of services after signing the agreement. These ‘may include housing, kindergarten or school enrollment of accompanying minors, training in Bulgarian language, health insurance, professional orientation and training programs, etc.,’ says the government's press office.
The State Agency for Refugees (SAR) will be responsible for creating an ‘integration profile’ of each new grantee and to inform him/her when s/he can sign an Integration Agreement with authorities. Upon their agreement to sign such a document, an individual integration plan will be prepared. SAR will also be responsible for providing communication between municipalities and refugees.
Integration Agreements shall be suspended in cases of death, imprisonment, termination of the granted status or non-fulfillment of conditions in the agreement on behalf of either side. Authorities retain the right to unilaterally suspend an agreement if a foreign national ‘systematically violates public order; does not fulfill the measures under their individual plan; or refuses to accept an appropriate job offered to him’.
Such integration measures will be financed through European funding, as well as international, national and foreign financial instruments.
Source. European Site on Integration
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