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On 24 September 2015, the EMN National Contact Point (NCP) for Hungary organised a conference entitled The External Dimension of Migration – Cooperation with Countries of Origin and Transit. Among speakers of the conference were representatives of the Hungarian Ministry of Interior including the Police Force, International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in Budapest, University of Pecs and Maastricht Graduate School of Governance.

The EMN Small Scale Meeting on legal counselling for asylum seekers and beneficiaries of international protection was held in Piešťany on 5 – 6 October 2015. The meeting was organised by International Organisation for Migration (IOM) together with the Migration Office of the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic (MO MoI SR).

On 13 October 2015, International Organisation for Migration (IOM) as the coordinator of the EMN activities in Slovakia organised in Bratislava, at the occasion of the EU Anti-Trafficking Day, a joint meeting with the journalists. The event was attended by representatives of the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic, IOM and other non-for-profit organisations – Human Rights League, Slovak Catholic Charity and People in Need Slovakia which seek through their activities to eliminate the crime of human trafficking, to help its victims, and to contribute to prevention.

On 23 - 25 June 2015, International Organization for Migration (IOM) as the coordinator of the EMN National Contact Point (NCP) for the Slovak Republic together with the Bureau of the Border and Aliens Police of the Police Force Presidium organised a thematic seminar in Oscadnica for representatives of Directorates and Departments of Aliens Police from the Slovak regions.

On 11-12 June 2015, the EMN Small Scale Meeting in Demänová was organised in cooperation with the Bureau of the Border and Alien Police of the Police Force Presidium (P FP) on the topic Implementation of new provisions of the national legislation in the field of regular and irregular migration of third-country nationals to the Slovak Republic. The meeting was attended by representatives of the Bureau of the Border and Alien Police of the P FP, Border and Alien Police directorates from the Slovak regions, Central Office of Labour, Social Affairs and Family, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic and International Organization for Migration (IOM) as the coordinator of the EMN activities in the Slovak Republic.