Activites

• 2001/04/26 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Regulation 2001/789
  • OJ L 116 26.04.2001, p. 0002
• #2343
• 2001/04/24 Council Meeting
• 2001/04/24 End of procedure in Parliament
• 2001/04/24 Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
• #2337
• 2001/03/15 Council Meeting
  • 2337 summary

    The Council took note that the unanimity required for the adoption of Council Regulations reserving to the Council implementing powers with regard to certain detailed provisions and practical procedures for examining visa applications and for carrying out border checks and surveillance had not been forthcoming. The Council instructed COREPER to pursue, as a matter of urgency, the examination of the outstanding question raised by one delegation concerning the Council's prerogative to reserve the right to exercise implementing powers for a five year transitional period, as provided for by Article 202 EC Treaty, with a view to enabling the Council to adopt the regulations as soon as possible and in any case before 25 March 2001, date of the full implementation of the Schengen Acquis in the Nordic Countries. �

• 2001/03/13 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
  • T5-0124/2001 summary

    The European Parliament voted to reject the Finnish initiative on reserving to the Council implementing powers for examining visa applications and carrying out border checks and surveillance. This is in line with the recommendation of the resolution tabled by Mr Gérard DEPREZ (EPP/ED, B).�

• 2001/02/27 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A5-0066/2001
• #X013
• 2000/11/30 Council Meeting
• 2000/10/02 Legislative proposal published
  • 11834/2000 summary

    In a letter dated 9 June 2000, the Council consulted the European Parliament on an Initiative of the Republic of Finland with a view to the adoption of a Regulation reserving to the Council implementing powers with regard to certain detailed provisions and practical procedures for examining visa applications. On 17 October 2000, the Council adopted a decision aiming to amend the Schengen Agreement in relation to the Schengen Consultation Network on the issue of the allocation of visas (Technical specifications of the VISION instrument). Following this decision and bearing in mind the fact that this instrument is part of the acquis communautaire, it was decided, in the Council, to include it in the Finish Initiative. The COREPER decided on 26 October 2000 to inform the European Parliament of this addition so that it could take it into account in its opinion. �

• 2000/06/16 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2000/05/26 Initial legislative proposal published
  • 06841/1/2000 summary

    PURPOSE: the adoption of a Regulation reserving to the Council implementing powers with regard to certain detailed provisions and practical procedures for examining visa applications. CONTENT: The Common Consular Instructions (CCI) on Visas for the Diplomatic Missions and Consular Posts have been established with a view to implementing the provisions of Title 11, Chapter 3 of the Convention, signed in Schengen in 1990, implementing the Schengen Agreement of 1985 between the governments of the Benelux, France and Federal Republic of Germany on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders. Certain detailed provisions and practical procedures for examining visa applications in the diplomatic missions and consular posts of Member States participating in the closer cooperation referred to in Art. 1 of the Schengen Protocol, contained in the CCI and the Annexes thereto, are to be adopted and regularly amended and updated in order to meet the operational requirements of the relevant consular authorities. In addition, a manual of documents to which a visa may be affixed has been established pursuant to Annex 11 of the CCI. It is necessary that the provisions of this manual be adopted and regularly amended and updated in order to meet the operational requirements of the relevant consular authorities. Furthermore, a manual concerning the issuance of Schengen visas in third States where all the Schengen States are not represented has been established. It is also necessary that the provisions of this manual be adopted and regularly amended and updated. Various provisions of Title II, Chapter 3 of the Schengen Convention, and in particular Art. 17 thereof, and of the CCI, provide for implementing decisions to be taken by the Executive Committee, established by the Schengen agreements adopted before 1 May 1999, for which the Council has now been substituted, pursuant to Art. 2 of the Schengen Protocol. Pursuant to Art. 1 of that Protocol, cooperation in the context of the Schengen acquis is to be conducted within the institutional and legal framework of the EU and in compliance with the relevant provisions of the Treaty on EU and of the Treaty establishing the European Community. It is therefore appropriate to set out in a Community act the procedure by which such implementing decisions should be taken. Since the Member States have an enhancd role in respect of the development of visa policy, reflecting the sensitivity of this area, in particular involving the political relations with third countries, the Council reserves the right, during the transitional period of 5 years, to adopt, amend and update the detailed provisions and practical procedures referred to above by unanimity, pending a review by the Council of the conditions under which such implementing powers would be conferred on the Commission after the end of this transitional period. Some of those provisions and procedures require confidential treatment in order to prevent risk of abuse. It is also necessary to provide for a procedure whereby the members of the Council and the Commission are informed without delay of all amendments to the manual of documents to which a visa may be affixed, to the manual concerning the issuance ofSchengen visas in third States where all the Schengen States are not represented, and to those Annexes of the CCI which consist, in whole or in part, of lists of factual information which must be provided by each Member States in accordance with the rules which it currently applies, and which therefore do not fall to be adopted, amended or updated by an act of the Council. Those elements of the CCI and the Annexes thereto which are not subject to amendment by either of the procedures (depending on the amendment, either direct communication of the amendment to the Secretary-General of the Council or the drafting of a proposal for consultation with other Member States) provided for in this Regulation should be amended in accordance with the provisions of Title IV of the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Arts. 62(2), 62 (3) and 67 thereof.�

Documents

• Initial legislative proposal published: 06841/1/2000
• Legislative proposal published: 11834/2000
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A5-0066/2001
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0124/2001
• Debate in Council: 2337
• : Regulation 2001/789
• : OJ L 116 26.04.2001, p. 0002

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)