3.2.3.2. 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 2023 was 72% (12 percentage points higher than in 2022), increasing to the most since 2017. 

At the country level, the acceptance rate remained stable or increased from the previous year in most countries. The most notable increases were in Poland (+23 percentage points), Czechia (+16 percentage points) and Romania (+13 percentage points).xxiv Acceptance rates varied from over 91% in Croatia and Lithuania to 2% in Greece.