Answer to a written question – Effectiveness of investigations into alleged pushbacks in Greece – E-000772/2025(ASW)

The Common Provisions Regulation[1], requires Member States to meet horizontal enabling conditions (HECs), one of which relates to the effective mechanisms for ensuring compliance with the Charter of Fundamental Rights[2]. Greece, as all Member States, must demonstrate HEC compliance at the programme’s adoption and throughout its implementation.

• [1] Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 June 2021 laying down common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund Plus, the Cohesion Fund, the Just Transition Fund and the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund and financial rules for those and for the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund, the Internal Security Fund and the Instrument for Financial Support for Border Management and Visa Policy, OJ L 231, 30.6.2021, p. 159-706.
• [2] Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, OJ C 326, 26.10.2012, p. 391-407.