The question concerns family reunification under the Dublin Regulation(1) which aims at bringing together an applicant for international protection in a Member State with his or her family members in another Member State.
According to the information available to the Commission, the Greek and German ministers have agreed that Germany accepts 70 persons per month via Dublin transfers during the months of April and May 2017. On this basis, the Commission understands that the two Member States are not restricting per se family reunification under the Dublin Regulation but that they have agreed due to logistical reasons to prolong for a certain period the delay during which these persons are normally transferred to Germany.
The transfer arrangements under the Dublin Regulation concern the relationship between the two Member States involved and are therefore subject to agreement between the relevant authorities. In the Commission's view, such arrangements do not raise an issue of compatibility with EC law. Moreover, the implementation of relocation Council Decisions does not have any effect on the other obligations of a Member State under the Common European Asylum System and must be implemented in full in parallel.