Annexes to COM(2022)680 - Coordinated approach to travel to the Union during the COVID-19 pandemic

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dossier COM(2022)680 - Coordinated approach to travel to the Union during the COVID-19 pandemic.
document COM(2022)680 EN
date December 13, 2022
Agreement concluded by the Council of the European Union and the Republic of Iceland and the Kingdom of Norway concerning the association of those two States with the implementation, application and development of the Schengen acquis (OJ L 176, 10.7.1999, p. 31).

(8) OJ L 53, 27.2.2008, p. 52.

(9) Council Decision 2008/146/EC of 28 January 2008 on the conclusion, on behalf of the European Community, of the Agreement between the European Union, the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on the Swiss Confederation’s association with the implementation, application and development of the Schengen acquis (OJ L 53, 27.2.2008, p. 1).

(10) OJ L 160, 18.6.2011, p. 21.

(11) Council Decision 2011/350/EU of 7 March 2011 on the conclusion, on behalf of the European Union, of the Protocol between the European Union, the European Community, the Swiss Confederation and the Principality of Liechtenstein on the accession of the Principality of Liechtenstein to the Agreement between the European Union, the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on the Swiss Confederation’s association with the implementation, application and development of the Schengen acquis, relating to the abolition of checks at internal borders and movement of persons (OJ L 160, 18.6.2011, p. 19).

(12) Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 laying down Community procedures for the authorisation and supervision of medicinal products for human and veterinary use and establishing a European Medicines Agency (OJ L 136, 30.4.2004, p. 1).

(13) Council Recommendation (EU) 2022/107 on a coordinated approach to facilitate safe free movement during the COVID-19 pandemic and replacing Recommendation (EU) 2020/1475.

(14) Regulation (EC) No 851/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 establishing a European Centre for disease prevention and control (OJ L 142, 30.4.2004, p. 1).

(15) See also Commission Guidance of 28 October 2020 (COM(2020)686 final, 28.10.2020).

(16) As defined in Articles 2 and 3 of Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States amending Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 and repealing Directives 64/221/EEC, 68/360/EEC, 72/194/EEC, 73/148/EEC, 75/34/EEC, 75/35/EEC, 90/364/EEC, 90/365/EEC and 93/96/EEC (OJ L 158, 30.4.2004, p. 77).

(17) Council Directive 2003/109/EC of 25 November 2003 concerning the status of third-country nationals who are long-term residents (OJ L 16, 23.1.2004, p. 44).


ANNEX

Categories of persons travelling in the exercise of an essential function or a need:

i.Healthcare professionals, health researchers, and elderly care professionals;

ii.Frontier workers;

iii.Transport personnel;

iv.Diplomats, staff of international organisations and people invited by international organisations, military personnel and humanitarian aid workers and civil protection personnel;

v.Passengers in transit;

vi.Passengers travelling for imperative family or medical reasons;

vii.Seafarers;

viii.Persons working on critical or otherwise essential infrastructures;

ix.Persons in need of international protection or for other humanitarian reasons;