Decision 2014/565 - Decision 565/2014/EU introducing a simplified regime for the control of persons at the external borders based on the unilateral recognition by Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus and Romania of certain documents as equivalent to their national visas for transit through or intended stays on their territories not exceeding 90 days in any 180-day period - Main contents
Please note
This page contains a limited version of this dossier in the EU Monitor.
Contents
official title
Decision No 565/2014/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 introducing a simplified regime for the control of persons at the external borders based on the unilateral recognition by Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus and Romania of certain documents as equivalent to their national visas for transit through or intended stays on their territories not exceeding 90 days in any 180-day period and repealing Decisions No 895/2006/EC and No 582/2008/EC| Legal instrument | Decision |
|---|---|
| Number legal act | Decision 2014/565 |
| Original proposal | COM(2013)441  |
| CELEX number i | 32014D0565 |
| Document | 15-05-2014 |
|---|---|
| Publication in Official Journal | 27-05-2014; OJ L 157 p. 23-30 |
| Effect | 16-06-2014; Entry into force Date pub. +20 See Art 7 |
| End of validity | 31-12-9999 |
27.5.2014 |
EN |
Official Journal of the European Union |
L 157/23 |
DECISION No 565/2014/EU OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 15 May 2014
introducing a simplified regime for the control of persons at the external borders based on the unilateral recognition by Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus and Romania of certain documents as equivalent to their national visas for transit through or intended stays on their territories not exceeding 90 days in any 180-day period and repealing Decisions No 895/2006/EC and No 582/2008/EC
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular points (a) and (b) of Article 77(2) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,
After transmission of the draft legislative act to the national parliaments,
Acting in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure (1),
Whereas:
(1) |
Pursuant to Article 4(1) of the 2011 Act of Accession, Croatia, which acceded to the Union on 1 July 2013, is required from that date to subject nationals of the third countries listed in Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 539/2001 (2) to a visa requirement. |
(2) |
Pursuant to Article 4(2) of the 2011 Act of Accession, the provisions of the Schengen acquis on the conditions and criteria for issuing uniform visas, as well as the provisions on mutual recognition of visas and on the equivalence between residence permits/long stay visas and short stay visas, only apply to Croatia after adoption of a Council decision to that effect. However, they are binding on Croatia from the date of accession. |
(3) |
Croatia is therefore required to issue national visas for entry into or transit through its territory to third-country nationals holding a uniform visa or long-stay visa or residence permit issued by a Member State fully implementing the Schengen acquis or a similar document issued by Bulgaria, Cyprus and Romania, which do not yet fully implement it. |
(4) |
The holders of documents issued by Member States fully implementing the Schengen acquis and documents issued by Bulgaria, Cyprus and Romania do not represent any risk for Croatia as they have been subject to all necessary controls by those Member States. In order to avoid imposing unjustified additional administrative burdens on Croatia, common rules should be adopted authorising Croatia unilaterally to recognise certain documents issued by those Member States as equivalent to its national visas and to establish a simplified regime for the control of persons at its external borders based on that unilateral equivalence. |
(5) |
The common rules introduced by Decision No 895/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (3) and by Decision No 582/2008/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (4) should be repealed. With regard to Cyprus, which has implemented the common regime established by Decision No 895/2006/EC since 10 July 2006, and to Bulgaria and Romania, which have implemented the common regime established by Decision No 582/2008/EC since 18 July 2008, common rules should be adopted authorising Bulgaria, Cyprus and Romania, like Croatia, unilaterally to recognise certain documents issued by Member States fully implementing the Schengen acquis as well as similar documents issued by Croatia, as equivalent to its national visas and to establish a simplified regime for the control of persons at their external borders based on that unilateral equivalence. This Decision is without prejudice to Bulgaria and Romania's objective of becoming Schengen Member States without delay. |
(6) |
The simplified regime laid down in this Decision should apply for a transitional period, until the date to be determined in a Council decision as referred to in the first subparagraph of... |
More
This text has been adopted from EUR-Lex.
This dossier is compiled each night drawing from aforementioned sources through automated processes. We have invested a great deal in optimising the programming underlying these processes. However, we cannot guarantee the sources we draw our information from nor the resulting dossier are without fault.
This page is also available in a full version containing the legal context, de Europese rechtsgrond, other dossiers related to the dossier at hand and the related cases of the European Court of Justice.
The full version is available for registered users of the EU Monitor by ANP and PDC Informatie Architectuur.
The EU Monitor enables its users to keep track of the European process of lawmaking, focusing on the relevant dossiers. It automatically signals developments in your chosen topics of interest. Apologies to unregistered users, we can no longer add new users.This service will discontinue in the near future.