ABSTRACT. The understanding of material migration is a key issue for a successful and safe operation of ITER. JET is used as test bed to investigate the process cycle which is connected the lifetime of first wall components by erosion and the safety due to long-term retention. Divertor configuration: The current understanding of Be migration in the JET-ILW can be described as follows: neutral Be and BeD from physical and chemical assisted physical sputtering by CX neutrals and residual plasma flux at the recessed wall enters the plasma, is dissociated, ionised and transported by SOL-flows towards the inner divertor where significant deposition takes place. The amount of Be eroded at the first wall and the amount of Be deposited in the inner divertor are almost comparable (21–28g). The primary impurity source in JET-ILW is by a factor 5.3 reduced in comparison with JET-C resulting in a lower divertor material deposition by more than an order of magnitude. Within the divertor, Be performs much less re-erosion and transport steps than C due to an energetic threshold for Be sputtering and inhibits by this the transport to the divertor floor and to remote areas at the pump-duct entrance. The overall low migration is also consistent with the low fuel inventory and dust production (<1g) with the JET-ILW. Limiter configuration: Be gross erosion at the contact point was in-situ determined by spectroscopy between 0:03% (E = 35eV) and above 100% caused by Be self-sputtering (E = 200eV ). Chemical assisted physical sputtering via BeD has been identified to contribute to the effective Be sputtering yield, i.e. at E = 75eV about 1/3 enhanced erosion with respect to bare physical sputtering. An effective gross yield of 10% represents a representative yield for limiter plasma conditions in the initial campaign. This is equivalent to an average erosion rate of 4.1×1018Bes–1 or 1.5g Be sputtered from one mid plane tile. The corresponding net erosion rate deduced from tile profiling - amounts 2.3×1018Bes–1 if normalized to the total limiter time. This is equivalent to 0.8g Be revealing a factor two between net and gross erosion. The primary impurity source in limiter configuration in JET-ILW is only 25% above the JET-C case. The main fraction of eroded Be stays within the main chamber and only a small fraction of neutral Be escapes geometrically from the main chamber into the divertor.