4.2.4.2. Acceptance rate for Dublin requests

The acceptance rate for decisions in response to a Dublin request measures the share of decisions accepting responsibility (explicitly or implicitly) for an application out of all decisions issued. The overall acceptance rate in 2022 was 60% (6 percentage points higher than in 2021), increasing for the first time in 5 years at the EU+ level.

At the country level, the acceptance rate remained stable or increased from the previous year in most countries. The most notable increases were in Hungary (+29 percentage points), Bulgaria (+24 percentage points) and Malta (+16 percentage points). In contrast, a significant decrease was recorded in Spain (-9 percentage points ).xvii  Acceptance rates varied from over 80% in Croatia and Lithuania to 1% in Greece.