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4.2.4.2. Acceptance rate for Dublin requests

 
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The acceptance rate for decisions in response to Dublin requests measures the proportion of decisions accepting responsibility (explicitly or implicitly) for an application out of all decisions issued. The acceptance rate in 2021 was 54% (2 percentage points lower than in 2020), showing a continued decline for the fourth successive year at the EU+ level. 

At the country level, the acceptance rate remained stable or declined from the previous year in the majority of EU+ countries. However, the most notable increases in acceptance rates occurred in Croatia (+27 percentage points), Bulgaria (+16 p.p.) and Spain (+15 p.p.).xvii Acceptance rates varied from 80% or more in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Croatia and Spain to less than 1% in Greece. 

 

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xvii Only countries responding to at least 300 requests in 2021 were considered.