Regulation 2023/2667 - Amendment of Regulations (EC) No 767/2008, (EC) No 810/2009 and (EU) 2017/2226 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Regulations (EC) No 693/2003 and (EC) No 694/2003 and Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement, as regards the digitalisation of the visa procedure - Main contents
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Regulation (EU) 2023/2667 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 November 2023 amending Regulations (EC) No 767/2008, (EC) No 810/2009 and (EU) 2017/2226 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Regulations (EC) No 693/2003 and (EC) No 694/2003 and Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement, as regards the digitalisation of the visa procedure| Legal instrument | Regulation |
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| Number legal act | Regulation 2023/2667 |
| Original proposal | COM(2022)658  |
| CELEX number i | 32023R2667 |
| Document | 22-11-2023; Date of signature |
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| Signature | 22-11-2023 |
| Effect | 01-01-1001; Application See Art 8.2 27-12-2023; Entry into force Date pub. +20 See Art 8.1 27-12-2023; Application Partial application See Art 8.3 28-06-2024; Application Partial application See Art 8.3 |
| Deadline | 01-12-2026; See Art 7.5 |
| End of validity | 31-12-9999 |
Official Journal of the European Union |
EN Series L |
2023/2667 |
7.12.2023 |
REGULATION (EU) 2023/2667 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 22 November 2023
amending Regulations (EC) No 767/2008, (EC) No 810/2009 and (EU) 2017/2226 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Regulations (EC) No 693/2003 and (EC) No 694/2003 and Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement, as regards the digitalisation of the visa procedure
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 Article 77(2), point (a), and Article 79(2), point (a), thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,
After transmission of the draft legislative act to the national parliaments,
Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee (1),
Acting in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure (2),
Whereas:
(1) |
The Union’s common visa policy has been an integral part of the establishment of an area without internal borders. The communication of the Commission of 14 March 2018 entitled ‘Adapting the common visa policy to new challenges’ addressed the concept of ‘e-visas’, and announced a feasibility study on digital visa procedures and the intention to assess options and promote pilot projects to prepare the ground for future proposals. When revising the Visa Code (3) in 2019, the European Parliament and the Council explicitly stated the aim of developing a common solution in the future to allow Schengen visa applications to be lodged online, thereby making full use of recent legal and technological developments. |
(2) |
This Regulation is in line with the Union’s policy to encourage the modernisation and digitalisation of public services and the communication of the Commission of 9 March 2021 entitled ‘2030 Digital compass: the European way for the digital decade’. Since the entry into force of Regulation (EC) No 810/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council (4) in 2010 and the start of operations of the Visa Information System (VIS) in 2011 under Regulation (EC) No 767/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council (5), the context in which visa policy operates has considerably changed. In addition, significant technological developments provide new opportunities to make the application process for Schengen visas smoother and more effective for third-country nationals, as well as more cost effective for Member States. |
(3) |
The COVID-19 pandemic, which slowed down Schengen visa operations worldwide, partly due to the difficulty of receiving visa applicants in consulates and in Visa Application Centres, prompted Member States to call upon the Commission to speed up work on the digitalisation of visa procedures. |
(4) |
The New Pact on Migration and Asylum, proposed by the Commission on 23 September 2020, set the objective of fully digitalising the visa procedure by 2025, with a digital visa and the ability to submit visa applications online. |
(5) |
While visa processing is already partially digitalised, with applications and decisions recorded in the VIS, two important steps remain paper-based: the visa application process and the issuance of the visa to the applicant by means of a visa sticker. The paper-based steps create a burden for all stakeholders, in particular for Member State authorities that issue visas and for visa applicants. Member States are aware of that burden and some of them have already implemented digital solutions in order to provide applicants with a modern and user-friendly application procedure and to improve the efficiency of handling visa applications. |
(6) |
A single technical solution, namely the EU Visa Application Platform (EU VAP), should be developed to... |
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