4.15.1. Pledges for resettlement and humanitarian admissions
EU resettlement schemes are based on national pledges corresponding to the number of third-country nationals that Member States commit to admit yearly. To support resettlement efforts, every year the European Commission launches a pledging exercise through AMIF,Regulation (EU) 2021/1147 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 July 2021 establishing the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund. 2021, July 7. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32021R1147 by which countries commit to receive a certain number of refugees as part of resettlement and humanitarian admission programmes. Although not all national commitments are connected to AMIF funding, pledges submitted to the European Commission give an idea of the overall number of refugees to be received in the EU under these programmes in the following year.