A/HRC/18/54 the condition of migrants in reception centres; for example, in April, the Government of Italy put in place procedures intended to facilitate the rapid transfer of migrants and asylum-seekers from Lampedusa, in partnership with non-governmental organizations.42 53. More than 1,600 of some 37,000 Bangladeshi migrant workers forced to flee the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya have received reintegration grants of 50,000 taka ($680) each from the Government of Bangladesh through a grant programme, which is managed by IOM and funded by a $40 million loan from the World Bank. 54. On 5 April 2011, the European Union adopted a Directive (2011/63/EU), which is aimed at harmonizing legislation and penalties, ensuring successful prosecution and better protection of and assistance to victims, and preventing trafficking. The Directive also repeals Framework Decision 2002/629/JHA and represents a crucial step forward in addressing human trafficking in and into the territory of the European Union. C. International cooperation 55. Neighbouring countries and countries outside the region received hundreds of thousands of migrants and asylum-seekers fleeing the upheaval in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. The largest number of migrants leaving the country fled overland to Tunisia and Egypt, while significant flows of migrants went to Algeria and the Niger, as well as to Chad and the Sudan. 56. A joint humanitarian operation, spearheaded by IOM and UNHCR with the support of a large number of countries, has evacuated around 156,566 migrants stranded at border camps in Tunisia and Egypt. Humanitarian agencies approached donors to provide chartered long-haul aircrafts to return migrants to their countries of origin. Tens of thousands of others were taken home by aircraft and ships provided by their Governments. Egypt, Tunisia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland offered air or sea transport to assist in the evacuation.43 57. A number of countries provided financial support for the humanitarian response, including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom, as well as the European Commission. Nonetheless, the revised Regional Flash Appeal for the Libyan Crisis was still significantly underfunded in early August. 58. Efforts were also made to assist migrants stranded by the fighting inside the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya through air and land evacuations. On 30 July, for example, IOM announced the successful completion of an operation to airlift 1,398 vulnerable stranded Chadian migrants out of the southern Libyan town of Sebha to the Chadian capital N'Djamena. 59. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe noted in its resolution 1820 (2011) that “the number of asylum seekers in Europe, and in particular those arriving from the southern Mediterranean, should not pose an insurmountable problem for Europe as a whole, although their concentration in certain regions will pose a much greater problem for those countries or regions in the country concerned.” The European Commission has identified up to €25 million which, under the European Refugee Fund and the External 42 43 14 Caritas Italiana submission. UNHCR Press Briefing Notes, 4 March 2011.