For Spanish Socialist Antonio Masip the rapporteur for one of the four reports in the package (minimum standards for the reception of asylum seekers): "it is right time to sum up different wills and criteria in order to bring this package to fruition for moral reasons, for being consequent, for democratic Europe".
Paketes pirmajā lasījumā Eiropas Parlaments ierosināja līdz 2012.gadam izveidot juridiski saistošu mehānismu sloga sadalei.