the transfer of responsibility for the examination of the merits of an application for international protection from one Member State to another Member State
the (physical) transfer of an applicant to the Member State who is considered to be responsible for examining the merits of an application following a Dublin procedure
In order to give a more comprehensive picture of the extent to which Dublin flows have affected the overall asylum seekers population of the Member States, the Commission has looked at both the real number of Dublin transfers, i.e. taking into account the transfers which actually took place, as well as the potential number of transfers , i.e. the situation if all accepted transfers were effected.
