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4 Amendments of Tanja FAJON related to 2009/0104(CNS)

Amendment 9 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 a (new)
(2a) With the aim of furthering the implementation of the Thessaloniki agenda, the Commission should start a visa dialogue with Kosovo under UNSCR 1244/99 so as to establish a roadmap for visa liberalisation similar to those established with other Western Balkan countries. This should be without prejudice to Member States' competence as regards the recognition of Kosovo1, ____________ 1 22 Member States have, to date, recognised Kosovo as an independent state while five have not.
2009/10/15
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 13 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
(4) Therefore the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia [the latter twoMontenegro and Serbia meeting all the benchmarks by the date of adoption of the present Regulation] and Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina [as regards Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina, the exemption from the visa requirement should apply after an assessment by the Commission that each of those countries meets all the benchmarks set in the roadmap for visa liberalisation and after that assessment is approved by the Council], should be transferred to Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 539/2001. Thisat visa waiver should only appapply only to holders of biometric passports issued by each of the threfive countries concerned.
2009/10/15
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 20 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 - paragraph 1 - point -a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 539/2001
Annex I - part 1
(-a) in Part 1, the references to Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina are replaced by the following: "Albania * Bosnia and Herzegovina * ------------------- * The name of the country shall be deleted from this Annex after an assessment by the Commission that the country in question meets all the benchmarks set in the roadmap for visa liberalisation is approved by the Council and notice of the assessment and Council's decision is published in the Official Journal of the European Union."
2009/10/15
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 - paragraph 2
Regulation (EC) No 539/2001
Annex II - part 1
2) In Annex II , Part 1, the following references shall be inserted: "Albania * ** Bosnia and Herzegovina * ** the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia ** Montenegro ** Serbia [excluding holders of Serbian passports issued by the Serbian Coordination Directorate (in Serbian: Koordinaciona uprava) ] ** ------------------- * The exemption from the visa requirement shall apply after an assessment by the Commission that the country in question meets all the benchmarks set in the roadmap for visa liberalisation is approved by the Council and notice of the assessment and Council's decision is published in the Official Journal of the European Union. ** The exemption from the visa requirement only applies to holders of biometric passports"."
2009/10/15
Committee: LIBE