Annual Policy Report 2005

The Annual Policy Report 2005 provides an overview of migration and asylum-related developments and debates in Austria. Most dominant were the legislative development, i.e. the adoption of the Aliens’ Law Package, which enters into force on 1 January 2006. Furthermore, the previous system of migration related Acts has been restructured and divided into an Asylum Act, a Settlement and Residence Act as well as an Aliens’ Police Act. These changes were driven by a number of EU Directives, which had to be transposed.