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COORDI NATED BY THE CENTRE FOR EUR OP EAN POLICY STUDI ES (CEPS) & THE UNIVERSI TY OF MAASTRICHT

THE SCOPE OF THE PROJECT ILEC (Involuntary Loss of European Citizenship) is a two-year research project co-funded by the European Commission’s Directorate General Justice, Citizenship and Fundamental Rights which aims to fill the knowledge gap concerning the rules and administrative procedures applicable to loss of nationality across the Union, and their relation to existing European and international legal standards. Based on an indepth comparative inventory of the regulations, administrative practices and statistical data concerning involuntary loss of nationality across the 28 EU member states, the project will generate new knowledge on the effects of the increasing judicialisation of the grounds of loss of Union citizenship over national legal systems.

WHO IS ILEC? ILEC counts with a new network of experts, scholars and practitioners working on loss of nationality and European citizenship. The project is coordinated by the Justice and Home Affairs Section of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) (Belgium) in cooperation with the Faculty of Law of the University of Maastricht (The Netherlands). The partnership is composed by the European University Institute (Italy), the University of Liege (Belgium), the Danish Institute for Human Rights (Denmark), the Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences (Hungary) and the Faculty of Law of the University of Leon (Spain). The partnership is complemented by an Advisory Committee composed of representatives of international and EU umbrella organisations active in the domain of citizenship and loss of nationality: the UNHCR, the European Citizens Action Service (ECAS) and the Open Society Institute (OSI), as well as a selection of specialist legal practitioners, policymakers and experts.

This project is co-funded by the European Commission’s Directorate General Justice, Citizenship and Fundamental Rights

OBJECTIVES  To monitor case law from European & national courts on involuntary loss of nationality in the EU, and the implications stemming from landmark European Courts rulings on Union citizenship & human rights  To develop a comparative inventory and analysis of the regulations & administrative practices on involuntary loss of nationality in the EU  To establish the first statistical database on loss of nationality in the EU  To identify ‘promising practices’ across the Union in light of existing standards and offer common guidelines and recommendations to facilitate cooperation between competent national authorities  To devise a comprehensive collection of legal & policy standards laid down in European & international instruments and case law on the deprivation of nationality

For more detailed information about the project and its results please visit

www.ilecproject.eu

This project is co-funded by the European Commission’s Directorate General Justice, Citizenship and Fundamental Rights

THE PARTNERSHIP Coordinated by: Centre For European Policy Studies (CEPS), Justice and Home Affairs Section

University of Maastricht, Faculty of Law

Partners:

University of Liège

European University Institute

The Danish Institute for Human Rights

ICCR – Budapest Foundation

University of Leon, Faculty of Law

This project is co-funded by the European Commission’s Directorate General Justice, Citizenship and Fundamental Rights