Recalling that the International Organization for Migration (hereinafter referred to as the IOM) is committed to the principle that humane and orderly migration benefits migrants and society and that it acts to assist in meeting the growing operational challenges of migration management, advance understanding of migration issues, encourage social and economic development through migration, and uphold the human dignity and well-being of migrants;

Considering the complexity of the challenges posed by migration flows and the need to ensure orderly management of migration;

The Parties reaffirm the importance, which they attach to a joint management of migration flows between their territories.

The Union shall develop a common immigration policy aimed at ensuring, at all stages, the efficient management of migration flows, fair treatment of third-country nationals residing legally in Member States, and the prevention of, and enhanced measures to combat, illegal immigration and trafficking in human beings.

The European Council of Seville on 21 and 22 June 2002 highlighted the integration of immigration into the Union's relations with third countries and the importance of intensified cooperation with third countries for the management of migration, including the prevention and combating of illegal migration and trafficking in human beings.

support for capacity-building in the field of drafting, implementing and ensuring the effectiveness of national legislation and management systems as regards asylum, migration and the fight against criminal activities, including organised crime and corruption, connected with illegal immigration, and development of the training of staff working in the areas of migration and asylum;

It stressed the need for more efficient management of migration flows at all their stages and the fact that partnership with third countries would be a key element for the success of such a policy, with a view to promoting co-development.

Improved management of migratory flows, especially certain aspects of migration such as the emigration of highly skilled nationals and the movement of refugees between neighbouring countries, is also a matter of major concern for the development of some countries.

Since the objectives of the proposed action, namely to promote, within the framework of a comprehensive approach to migration, a more efficient management of migration flows in close cooperation with the third countries concerned, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore, by reason of the scale or impact of the action, be better achieved at Community level, the Community may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty.

In this Regulation "immigration liaison officer" means a representative of one of the Member States, posted abroad by the immigration service or other competent authorities in order to establish and maintain contacts with the authorities of the host country with a view to contributing to the prevention and combating of illegal immigration, the return of illegal immigrants and the management of legal migration.

For that purpose, a common European policy on asylum and migration should aim both at fair treatment of third country nationals and better management of migration flows.

(2) The European Council of Seville on 21 and 22 June 2002 highlighted the integration of immigration into the Union's relations with third countries and the importance of intensified cooperation with third countries for the management of migration, including the prevention and combating of illegal migration and trafficking in human beings.

(e) support for capacity-building in the field of drafting, implementing and ensuring the effectiveness of national legislation and management systems as regards asylum, migration and the fight against criminal activities, including organised crime and corruption, connected with illegal immigration, and development of the training of staff working in the areas of migration and asylum;

It stressed the need for more efficient management of migration flows at all their stages and the fact that partnership with third countries would be a key element for the success of such a policy, with a view to promoting co-development.

Improve the capacity of public administration to develop an effective border management, including the detection of forged and falsified documents, in line with the acquis and best practices with a view to preventing and combating illegal migration.

(4) Improved management of migratory flows, especially certain aspects of migration such as the emigration of highly skilled nationals and the movement of refugees between neighbouring countries, is also a matter of major concern for the development of some countries.

(14) Since the objectives of the proposed action, namely to promote, within the framework of a comprehensive approach to migration, a more efficient management of migration flows in close cooperation with the third countries concerned, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore, by reason of the scale or impact of the action, be better achieved at Community level, the Community may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty.

In this Regulation "immigration liaison officer" means a representative of one of the Member States, posted abroad by the immigration service or other competent authorities in order to establish and maintain contacts with the authorities of the host country with a view to contributing to the prevention and combating of illegal immigration, the return of illegal immigrants and the management of legal migration.

The European Council of Seville on 21 and 22 June 2002 highlighted the integration of immigration into the Union's relations with third countries and the importance of intensified cooperation with third countries for the management of migration, including the prevention and combating of illegal migration and trafficking in human beings.

support for capacity-building in the field of drafting, implementing and ensuring the effectiveness of national legislation and management systems as regards asylum, migration and the fight against criminal activities, including organised crime and corruption, connected with illegal immigration, and development of the training of staff working in the areas of migration and asylum;

Improved management of migratory flows, especially certain aspects of migration such as the emigration of highly skilled nationals and the movement of refugees between neighbouring countries, is also a matter of major concern for the development of some countries.

Since the objectives of the proposed action, namely to promote, within the framework of a comprehensive approach to migration, a more efficient management of migration flows in close cooperation with the third countries concerned, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore, by reason of the scale or impact of the action, be better achieved at Community level, the Community may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty.

Development of corporate applications will concentrate on the completion of phase III of the Meetings Management System (end of March), the continuing update of the corporate product database and tracking system SIAMED to include provisions of the new medicines legislation, and its migration to a different technical platform, and further work on a number of smaller systems such as the contracts database.