Slovenia, which launched procedures for the relocation in March 2016 and honoured all deadlines, had committed to meeting the full quota it had been allocated under the EU relocation plan, meaning 218 persons from Italy and 349 from Greece.
The full quota "was not realised, because Italy and Greece did not submit the documentation" necessary for this, the outgoing government said after the correspondence session.
The final report, which concludes the work of the interministerial task force established for this purpose, lists 81 persons from Italy (77 citizens of Eritrea, three Syrians and a Yemen citizen), and 172 persons from Greece (149 Syrians, 17 Iraqis and six persons without citizenship), which means 44.6% of the full quota.
By the end of July this year, decisions were taken on 251 applications for international protection.
Refugee status was approved in 233 cases (141 Syrians, 71 citizens of Eritrea, 12 Iraqis and six persons without citizenship), subsidiary protection was okayed in 11 cases (10 Syrians and one person from Yemen), five applications were rejected (all Iraqis), while two procedures were halted after the Syrian and Eritrean applicants self-willingly left the asylum centre.
Meanwhile, the government also adopted in March 2016 a plan for the resettlement of 20 persons from third countries and in August the same year an amendment envisaging the arrival of 40 Syrian refugees from Turkey. The first group, numbering 21, arrived in July this year, while 19 more are expected in the autumn.
