The Emergency Transit Centre in Humenne, Slovakia has originally been set up for the sole purpose of evacuating a specific group of Palestinians from the Al Waleed Camp in Iraq. The agreement signed in July 2009 has been extended to other future evacuation operations without restrictions in December 2010.

The ETC in Humenne was the second emergency facility established in Central Europe. It provides temporary placement, for up to six months, for those refugees who need to be urgently evacuated from the country where they had first sought refuge because of the risk of refoulement (being returned to an area where they would face persecution), or unsafe, unstable, inhumane conditions. The asylum centre has a capacity of 100 places on its three-building premises.

Refugees stay in the Emergency Transit Centre while their final resettlement procedure is arranged by the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR. In the meanwhile, they can live in a safe and stable environment. The future resettlement country conducts the interviews with their candidates for resettlement. The refugees also receive language training and cultural orientation to their future home country that resettles them; medical checks and care are also provided at that stage.