Legal provisions of COM(2015)303 - Amendment of Regulation 1683/1995 laying down a uniform format for visas

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dossier COM(2015)303 - Amendment of Regulation 1683/1995 laying down a uniform format for visas.
document COM(2015)303 EN
date July  4, 2017

Contents

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 1683/95 is amended as follows:

(1)in Article 7, the following paragraphs are added:

‘Upon request from Ireland or the United Kingdom, the Commission shall enter into appropriate arrangements with the requesting Member State to exchange technical information referred to in Article 2 for the purposes of issuing national visas by the requesting Member State.

Costs to which Ireland and the United Kingdom do not contribute in accordance with Article 5 of Protocol No 21 on the position of the United Kingdom and Ireland in respect of the area of freedom, security and justice, annexed to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, shall be borne by Ireland or the United Kingdom respectively if they make such a request.’;

(2)the Annex is replaced by the image and the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

Visa stickers conforming to the specifications set out in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1683/95 and which are applicable until the date referred to in the second paragraph of Article 3 of this Regulation may be used for visas issued during a period of six months after that date.

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Member States shall apply this Regulation at the latest 15 months after the adoption of the further technical specifications referred to in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1683/95.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in the Member States in accordance with the Treaties.