International and Temporary Protection Reception System

How it works and data

Persons seeking international and temporary protection, provided they lack sufficient financial resources, are entitled to the necessary reception conditions in order to ensure that their basic needs are met in conditions of dignity.

This is a right also of beneficiaries of international protection, stateless persons and beneficiaries of temporary protection.

The reception conditions are provided in the International and Temporary Protection Reception System, which also includes an itinerary of actions and services organized in a network of resources and centres distributed throughout the national territory, with the dual objective of guaranteeing the reception conditions and facilitating the progressive autonomy and social insertion of the persons to whom the System is intended.

  • Organisation of the Reception System:

    The International and Temporary Protection Reception System is managed and administered by the Directorate-General for Humanitarian Assistance and the International Protection Reception System, on which the Sub-Directorate-General for International Protection Programmes and the Sub-Directorate for Centres and Emergencies of the Migration System depend.

    The reception system has a network of centres and resources distributed throughout the national territory, both publicly owned and managed by entities of the third sector of a social nature.

    The public centres managed by the Migration System Centres and Emergencies Branch are four International Protection Reception Centres (ICSC) and four Reception, Care and Referral Centres (CREADE).

    The Sub-Directorate General for International Protection Programmes is responsible for managing the individualized routes of services and services of the Reception System distributed throughout the territory.

    The international and temporary protection reception system provides services from the reception of the recipients until their discharge from it, through itineraries that facilitate the progressive autonomy and social and labor insertion in Spanish society.

    These itineraries begin with the Initial Assessment and Derivation Phase, in which the circumstances of the target person are assessed and evaluated on an individualized basis. The recipients are received at airports, transit points and arrivals in Spain.

    Subsequently, in the Reception Phase, the recipients are assigned a resource appropriate to their profile and needs.

    Finally, the system ends with the Autonomy Phase to make effective its full inclusion in society.

    The services included in the Reception System are provided directly through Centres and public resources and through concerted action with authorized entities.

    The Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (FAMI) finances around 12% of the cost of the International and Temporary Protection Reception System annually. The rest of the funding is from the General State Budgets.

  • Regulations