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EU Adopts Recommendations To Open Negotiations For Short Stay Visa Waiver ,
by Jason Gorringe, Tax-News.com, London
Friday, February 15, 2008
The European Commission on Friday took the first step towards the conclusion of short
stay visa waiver agreements between the European Community and six third countries:
Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Mauritius, Saint Kitts and Nevis
and the Seychelles. The recommendations to authorise the Commission to open
negotiations will be submitted to the Council.
"The Commission intends to open the negotiations on the visa waiver with
the six countries as soon as the negotiating directives will be approved by
the Council, thus providing for the full implementation of the existing legal
framework", explained Vice-President Franco Frattini, Commissioner responsible
for Justice, Freedom and Security.
Regulation (EC) 1932/2006 (adopted on 21 December 2006) amended Regulation
(EC) 539/2001, listing the third countries whose nationals must be in possession
of visas when crossing the external borders of the European Union (negative
list), and those whose nationals are exempt from that requirement (positive
list) by - inter alia - transferring six third countries from the negative to
the positive list.
These countries were Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Mauritius,
Saint Kitts and Nevis and the Seychelles.
However, the new Regulation makes the implementation of the exemptions from
the visa requirement for nationals of these countries dependent on the entry
into force of bilateral visa waiver agreements, to be concluded between the European
Community and each of the countries in question.
To this end, the Commission prepared recommendations to be submitted to
the Council in order to authorise the Commission to negotiate – on behalf
of the European Community – such bilateral visa waiver agreements with
each of the six countries concerned.
However, the finalisation of these recommendations has been delayed, due
to the decision of some of the six countries to introduce a special visa regime
for the nationals of several Member States on a temporary basis, for the period
of the Cricket World Cup 2007 taking place in the Caribbean Community.
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