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Lead committee dossier: LIBE/3/05213
Legal Basis EC before Amsterdam E 100
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2001/12/11
End of procedure in Parliament
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1999/05/01
End of procedure in Parliament
- #1933
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1996/06/04
Council Meeting
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1933
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The Portuguese Minister had set out the particular problems facing his country when it came to drawing up the convention, these being linked to the East Timor question. After an exchange of views the presidency concluded that a solution had to be found quickly to the two main problems concerning the territorial application of the convention (Article 30 of the draft) and the role of the Court of Justice (Article 29 of the draft).
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1933
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- #1909
- 1996/03/20 Council Meeting
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- 1995/11/23 Council Meeting
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- 1995/06/21 Council Meeting
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1994/04/21
Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
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T3-0322/1994
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Adopting the report by Mr Christopher BEAZLEY (PPE, UK), the European Parliament approved the draft convention on crossing the external borders of the Member States adopted in accordance with Article K.3 of the TEU, together with a series of amendments designed mainly to make a clear distinction between the purpose of this proposal (which is to introduce rules to control people crossing the Union's external borders) from the strictly Community proposal on visas. Consequently, all the articles and references to the introduction of common rules for issuing standard multiple-entry visas have been deleted from the draft convention, as amended by the European Parliament, and transferred to the proposal for a regulation determining the third countries whose nationals require a visa in order to cross an external border (see procedures CNS0938 and CNS97922). In addition to these horizontal amendments, the European Parliament also amended: - the legal basis for the draft convention, by adding Articles 3(d), 7A and 100C; - the length of stay, by making provision for a new so-called "limited" stay of no more than one year (in principle); - national visas, by deleting all provisions relating to them; - the responsibility of carriers, by excluding it from the scope of the convention; - the implementing measures for the convention, by providing for fair consultation of the European Parliament. Finally, the European Parliament reiterated in a new article that it has the power, like the national parliaments, to question the Council on the interpretation and application of the draft convention.�
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T3-0322/1994
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- 1994/04/19 Debate in Parliament
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1994/03/29
Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
- A3-0190/1994
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1994/01/21
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
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1993/12/10
Legislative proposal published
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COM(1993)0684
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OBJECTIVE: to establish, in accordance with Article K.3 of the Treaty on European Union, a new convention on the crossing of the external frontiers of the Member States, and to introduce a common policy on visas. REVIEW OF PROCEDURE: this draft convention largely reproduced the principles set out in a preliminary draft which was proposed and finalised in 1991, before the European Union was set up. The preliminary draft convention failed because of the lack of consensus on the bilateral dispute between the United Kingdom and Spain as to whether the convention's geographical scope included Gibraltar. Since then the Union had been given new powers under Title VI of the Maastricht Treaty, enabling the Commission to propose a new text on the basis of Article K.3 of the Treaty on European Union. This new proposed convention did not currently include provisions on its geographical scope (the article was 'to be inserted' pending the resolution of the dispute between Spain and the United Kingdom). CONTENT: the proposed decision recommended that the Member States should approve the convention by 31 December 1994. It mainly applied to those not covered by Community law, namely: - nationals of the Member States of the Union and members of their families with the nationality of a non-member State, - nationals of non-member States who enjoyed the same rights as those of citizens of the Member States regarding entry and right of residence, together with members of their families with the nationality of a non-member State who had right of entry and right of residence. The external frontiers of the Community were to be understood to mean: - any land border of a Member State which was not adjacent to the border of another Member State, together with the maritime borders; - airports and sea ports, except where these were regarded as an internal border. The draft convention: 1) defined general principles which were common to all Member States and which applied to the crossing of the external borders and the exercise of controls at those borders. On the subject of controls, the convention: - established that these were permanent and that they were to be carried out upon entering and leaving the territory of all the Member States; - established that they were to be carried out with respect to all persons arriving at a border, in order to distinguish those covered by Community law from all other travellers; - spelt out the nature of the controls; - established special arrangements for airports; - established the conditions to be met in order to enter and reside in the territory of a Member State. Provision was made for exemptions from a refusal to grant entry to a Member State and to issue a residence permit. 2) listed provisions relating to visas which were common to all the Member States: - introduction of a uniform visa for short stays (single uninterrupted stay or series of stays with a total duration of not more than 3 months in the territory of the Member States within a period of 6 months from the date of entry); - establishment of the conditions for issuing visas; - provision for a uniform, multiple entry visa; - provision for national visas with limited geographical validity. The convention also provided for the drawing up of a common list of 'non-admissible' persons: those to whom Member States refused access to their territory on the basis of national identification data. Finally the convention provided for a series of measures to be taken by the Member States against persons crossing the Union's external borders illegally (irrespective of whether they were resident in the territory of a Member State).�
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Documents
- Legislative proposal published: COM(1993)0684
- Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A3-0190/1994
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T3-0322/1994
- Debate in Council: 1859
- Debate in Council: 1886
- Debate in Council: 1909
- Debate in Council: 1933
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