European Migration Network

The EMN has been established via Council Decision 2008/381/EC and is financially supported by the European Union.

The European Migration Network (EMN) is an initiative of the European Commission.

Its objective is to meet the information needs of Community institutions and of Member States’ authorities and institutions by providing up-to-date, objective, reliable and comparable information on migration and asylum, with a view to supporting policymaking in the European Union in these areas. The EMN also serves to provide the general public with such information.

To that end, the EMN has a network of National Contact Points (NCPs).

In Spain, the NCP is composed of experts from four ministries: Ministry of Employment and Social Security, Ministry of Interior, Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation and Ministry of Justice and is co-ordinated by the Permanent Observatory for Immigration, a collegial body attached to the Ministry of Labour and Immigration. The NCP also collaborates with independent experts for the elaboration of EMN studies and reports.