This EMN Inform provides an overview of current aspects of return principally in EU Schengen Member States and Norway including statistics (see Section 10). Whilst the United Kingdom and Ireland are not Schengen Member States, where relevant, information has been included from these countries in order to provide a more comprehensive overview of the EU Member States. Information has been drawn from EMN sources: EMN Annual Policy Reports 2012, the EU’s 4th Annual Report on Immigration and Asylum 2012, EMN Country Factsheets 2012 plus EMN Ad-Hoc Queries.