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2004/0062(CNS) Scientific research: admission of third-country national researchers to the Community, application measures

Progress: Procedure completed

RoleCommitteeRapporteurShadows
Lead LIBE PEILLON Vincent (icon: PSE PSE)
Committee Opinion ITRE VAKALIS Nikolaos (icon: PPE-DE PPE-DE)
Legal Basis:
EC Treaty (after Amsterdam) EC 063

Events

2005/11/03
   Final act published in Official Journal
Details

PURPOSE : to contribute to the achievement of the Lisbon objectives by making it easier for researchers easier to enter and move within the Community, in order to increase the attractiveness of the Community for researchers throughout the world.

LEFISLATIVE ACT : Council Recommendation 2005/762/EC to facilitate the admission of third-country nationals to carry out scientific research in the European Community.

CONTENT : This Recommendation is part of a series of measures to facilitate the admission of researchers. The measures include this Recommendation, and a Directive on a specific procedure for admitting third-country nationals for purposes of scientific research.

The Recommendation covers four areas in which the Member States are asked to adopt measures to facilitate the admission of third-country nationals: admission for the purposes of research, issue of residence permits, family reunification and operational cooperation.

Pending implementation of the Directive by the Member States, the recommendation calls on

Member States to facilitate the admission of such individuals already.

The Directive and the Recommendation are completed by a third text: a Recommendation to facilitate the issue by Member States of uniform short-stay visas for researchers from third countries, which was adopted by the Council on 18 July 2005. (Please see COD20040063.)

Member States are recommended, in the area of admission for the purpose of carrying out research :

-to encourage the admission of researchers by providing them with favourable conditions for carrying out research, preferably by exempting them from work permit requirements, or alternatively by providing for work permits to be issued automatically or under fast-track procedures;

-to refrain from using quotas to restrict the admission of third-country nationals for research posts;

-to guarantee third-country nationals the possibility of working as a researcher;

In the area of residence permits :

-to issue residence permits in response to applications as soon as possible, and facilitate fast-track procedures;

-to guarantee third-country nationals working as researchers that their residence permits will be renewed;

-gradually to involve the research organisations in the admission procedure for researchers;

In the area of family reunification , Member States should facilitate and support the reunification of family members, by providing them with favourable and attractive conditions and procedures;

In the area of operational cooperation, Member States are:

-to facilitate access of researchers to the relevant information and promote its availability on all the relevant information sources;

-to promote contact persons networks within the competent administrations;

-to encourage research organisations to develop such networks;

-to inform the Commission of the measures they have adopted.

2005/10/12
   EP/CSL - Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
2005/10/12
   EP - End of procedure in Parliament
2005/10/12
   CSL - Council Meeting
2005/06/06
   CSL - Debate in Council
Documents
2005/06/06
   CSL - Council Meeting
2005/04/12
   EP - Text adopted by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
Details

The European Parliament adopted a resolution drafted by Vincent PEILLON (PES, FR) broadly approving the proposal with a few amendments. Parliament deleted the clause whereby Member States must guarantee third-country nationals the possibility of working as a researcher without any maximum time limit, save where an exception is justified by the needs of the researchers’ country of origin. Instead, a clause is inserted stating that a researcher may work without any maximum time limit, save where the third-country national in question is not in possession of a valid passport or equivalent travel document or constitutes a threat to public policy, public security or public health . It added that women should be promoted in scientific research.

2005/04/12
   EP - Results of vote in Parliament
2005/04/12
   EP - Decision by Parliament
Details

The European Parliament adopted a resolution drafted by Vincent PEILLON (PES, FR) broadly approving the proposal with a few amendments. Parliament deleted the clause whereby Member States must guarantee third-country nationals the possibility of working as a researcher without any maximum time limit, save where an exception is justified by the needs of the researchers’ country of origin. Instead, a clause is inserted stating that a researcher may work without any maximum time limit, save where the third-country national in question is not in possession of a valid passport or equivalent travel document or constitutes a threat to public policy, public security or public health . It added that women should be promoted in scientific research.

Documents
2005/04/01
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading
Documents
2005/04/01
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading
Documents
2005/03/18
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading
2005/03/16
   EP - Vote in committee
2005/03/16
   all - Additional information
Details

EP: decision of the committee responsible, 1st reading/single reading

The committee adopted the report by Vincent PEILLON (PES, FR) approving the proposed Recommendation under the consultation procedure, subject to a few amendments. MEPs stressed inter alia that there was a need to promote women's involvement in scientific research. Member States should also ensure that mechanisms are in place to help the private sector invest in innovation as well as research.

2005/02/22
   EP - Committee opinion
Documents
2005/02/22
   EP - Committee opinion
Documents
2004/11/17
   CofR - Committee of the Regions: opinion
2004/10/27
   ESC - Economic and Social Committee: opinion, report
2004/10/07
   EP - VAKALIS Nikolaos (PPE-DE) appointed as rapporteur in ITRE
2004/10/05
   EP - PEILLON Vincent (PSE) appointed as rapporteur in LIBE
2004/09/15
   EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament
2004/06/08
   CSL - Debate in Council
Documents
2004/06/08
   CSL - Council Meeting
2004/03/16
   EC - Legislative proposal
Details

PURPOSE : facilitating the admission of third-country researchers into the EU. PROPOSED ACT : Council Recommendation. CONTENT : this Recommendation calls on the Member States to adopt a number of practical measures to facilitate the admission of third-country researchers in the European Union. It is being proposed in tandem with a Directive outlining the specific procedures for admitting third-country nationals for research purposes in the EU and within the context of the Lisbon Agenda (please refer to CNS/2004/0061). The Recommendation will make it possible for Member States to take action on a number of points in advance of the Directive's transposition into national law. This is done by calling on the Member States to implement measures, which are in keeping with the Directive. Additionally, the Recommendation outlines measures relating to family reunification and co-operation between the Member States. Matters, which are not specifically addressed in the Directive. The proposed Recommendation covers four areas: - admission for the purposes of research; residence permits; family re-unification and operational co-operation. On the question of "admission for the purposes of research", the main priority is to ensure that researchers from third-countries have rapid and easy access to research posts without any time constraints. The measures being proposed include: - The abolition of work permits to help speed up the admission procedure for researchers in the EU. Member States are asked to choose between waiving permit requirements or granting permits automatically, depending on the formula most suited to their administrative procedures. - Researchers from third-countries should not be subject to quota restrictions. - Access to research posts should not be subject to a maximum time limit. Concerning "resident permits", the set of measures being proposed relate to the duration and issue of residence permits. The specific measures being proposed are: - Permits should be issued quickly and in as straightforward a manner as possible. Member States are asked to set targets for issuing permits within thirty days. - To abolish time limits and ensure that researchers' residence permits can in principle always be renewed. - To ease the transposition of the Directive by calling on Member States to harmonise their procedures. Implementing such measures early will help build up a system of trust between the immigration authorities and the research organisations. "Family Reunification" is considered a particularly important issue, not least because it is not addressed in the Directive. Researchers planning to live and work in Europe will naturally want to know what status their family will have. In light of this the Recommendation suggests that measures should be adopted which go beyond the measures contained in the 2003 Directive on the right to family reunification. The proposed measures call on the Member States to: - Facilitate the admission of persons seeking family reunification with a researcher. - Allow family re-unification even if the application is being made when family members are already legally present on theterritory. This is being proposed in order not to compromise "on-the-spot" admission applications. - Offer favourable treatment to family members of a researcher seeking a work permit. - Offer shorter deadlines that those laid down in their domestic law for family re-unification. - Scrap a waiting period for applications submitted by researchers. Lastly, the final section of the Recommendation contains a series of administrative measures across the board, aimed at facilitating the implementation of the Recommendation and, ultimately, the Directive. The measures proposed call on the Member States to: - Inform the Commission about any measures they adopt to facilitate the entry and residence of researchers from third countries. - Collect and pass on to the Commission statistics regarding the residence permits they issue to researchers and their families. - Nominate a contact person for the admission of researchers from third-countries within the competent authorities. - Pass on information regarding the provisions of the Directive in Embassies. - Request research organisation to nominate a contact person to brief researchers from third countries and promote co-operation with the immigration authorities. - Network with one another. The launching of the European Researchers' Mobility Portal on the Internet and the creation of the network of mobility centres, which covers 33 countries, should help this objective.

2004/03/15
   EC - Legislative proposal published
Details

PURPOSE : facilitating the admission of third-country researchers into the EU. PROPOSED ACT : Council Recommendation. CONTENT : this Recommendation calls on the Member States to adopt a number of practical measures to facilitate the admission of third-country researchers in the European Union. It is being proposed in tandem with a Directive outlining the specific procedures for admitting third-country nationals for research purposes in the EU and within the context of the Lisbon Agenda (please refer to CNS/2004/0061). The Recommendation will make it possible for Member States to take action on a number of points in advance of the Directive's transposition into national law. This is done by calling on the Member States to implement measures, which are in keeping with the Directive. Additionally, the Recommendation outlines measures relating to family reunification and co-operation between the Member States. Matters, which are not specifically addressed in the Directive. The proposed Recommendation covers four areas: - admission for the purposes of research; residence permits; family re-unification and operational co-operation. On the question of "admission for the purposes of research", the main priority is to ensure that researchers from third-countries have rapid and easy access to research posts without any time constraints. The measures being proposed include: - The abolition of work permits to help speed up the admission procedure for researchers in the EU. Member States are asked to choose between waiving permit requirements or granting permits automatically, depending on the formula most suited to their administrative procedures. - Researchers from third-countries should not be subject to quota restrictions. - Access to research posts should not be subject to a maximum time limit. Concerning "resident permits", the set of measures being proposed relate to the duration and issue of residence permits. The specific measures being proposed are: - Permits should be issued quickly and in as straightforward a manner as possible. Member States are asked to set targets for issuing permits within thirty days. - To abolish time limits and ensure that researchers' residence permits can in principle always be renewed. - To ease the transposition of the Directive by calling on Member States to harmonise their procedures. Implementing such measures early will help build up a system of trust between the immigration authorities and the research organisations. "Family Reunification" is considered a particularly important issue, not least because it is not addressed in the Directive. Researchers planning to live and work in Europe will naturally want to know what status their family will have. In light of this the Recommendation suggests that measures should be adopted which go beyond the measures contained in the 2003 Directive on the right to family reunification. The proposed measures call on the Member States to: - Facilitate the admission of persons seeking family reunification with a researcher. - Allow family re-unification even if the application is being made when family members are already legally present on theterritory. This is being proposed in order not to compromise "on-the-spot" admission applications. - Offer favourable treatment to family members of a researcher seeking a work permit. - Offer shorter deadlines that those laid down in their domestic law for family re-unification. - Scrap a waiting period for applications submitted by researchers. Lastly, the final section of the Recommendation contains a series of administrative measures across the board, aimed at facilitating the implementation of the Recommendation and, ultimately, the Directive. The measures proposed call on the Member States to: - Inform the Commission about any measures they adopt to facilitate the entry and residence of researchers from third countries. - Collect and pass on to the Commission statistics regarding the residence permits they issue to researchers and their families. - Nominate a contact person for the admission of researchers from third-countries within the competent authorities. - Pass on information regarding the provisions of the Directive in Embassies. - Request research organisation to nominate a contact person to brief researchers from third countries and promote co-operation with the immigration authorities. - Network with one another. The launching of the European Researchers' Mobility Portal on the Internet and the creation of the network of mobility centres, which covers 33 countries, should help this objective.

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date
2004-10-05T00:00:00
committee_full
Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
rapporteur
group: PSE name: PEILLON Vincent
council
  • body: CSL type: Council Meeting council: Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) meeting_id: 2683 url: http://register.consilium.europa.eu/content/out?lang=EN&typ=SET&i=SMPL&ROWSPP=25&RESULTSET=1&NRROWS=500&DOC_LANCD=EN&ORDERBY=DOC_DATE+DESC&CONTENTS=2683*&MEET_DATE=12/10/2005 date: 2005-10-12T00:00:00
  • body: CSL type: Council Meeting council: Competitiveness (Internal Market, Industry, Research and Space) meeting_id: 2665 url: http://register.consilium.europa.eu/content/out?lang=EN&typ=SET&i=SMPL&ROWSPP=25&RESULTSET=1&NRROWS=500&DOC_LANCD=EN&ORDERBY=DOC_DATE+DESC&CONTENTS=2665*&MEET_DATE=06/06/2005 date: 2005-06-06T00:00:00
  • body: CSL type: Council Meeting council: Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) meeting_id: 2588 url: http://register.consilium.europa.eu/content/out?lang=EN&typ=SET&i=SMPL&ROWSPP=25&RESULTSET=1&NRROWS=500&DOC_LANCD=EN&ORDERBY=DOC_DATE+DESC&CONTENTS=2588*&MEET_DATE=08/06/2004 date: 2004-06-08T00:00:00
docs
  • date: 2004-10-27T00:00:00 docs: url: https://dm.eesc.europa.eu/EESCDocumentSearch/Pages/redresults.aspx?k=(documenttype:AC)(documentnumber:1434)(documentyear:2004)(documentlanguage:EN) title: CES1434/2004 url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:C:2005:120:SOM:EN:HTML title: OJ C 120 20.05.2005, p. 0060-0063 type: Economic and Social Committee: opinion, report body: ESC
  • date: 2004-11-17T00:00:00 docs: url: https://dm.cor.europa.eu/CORDocumentSearch/Pages/redresults.aspx?k=(documenttype:AC)(documentnumber:0168)(documentyear:2004)(documentlanguage:EN) title: CDR0168/2004 url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:C:2005:071:TOC title: OJ C 071 22.03.2005, p. 0006-0010 type: Committee of the Regions: opinion body: CofR
  • date: 2004-12-16T00:00:00 docs: title: PE350.188 type: Committee draft report body: EP
  • date: 2005-02-22T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=COMPARL&mode=XML&language=EN&reference=PE350.101 title: PE350.101 committee: ITRE type: Committee opinion body: EP
  • date: 2005-02-22T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=COMPARL&mode=XML&language=EN&reference=PE350.103 title: PE350.103 committee: ITRE type: Committee opinion body: EP
  • date: 2005-02-28T00:00:00 docs: title: PE355.461 type: Amendments tabled in committee body: EP
  • date: 2005-04-01T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A6-2005-54&language=EN title: A6-0054/2005 type: Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading body: EP
  • date: 2005-04-12T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P6-TA-2005-88 title: T6-0088/2005 title: OJ C 033 09.02.2006, p. 0026-0152 E summary: The European Parliament adopted a resolution drafted by Vincent PEILLON (PES, FR) broadly approving the proposal with a few amendments. Parliament deleted the clause whereby Member States must guarantee third-country nationals the possibility of working as a researcher without any maximum time limit, save where an exception is justified by the needs of the researchers’ country of origin. Instead, a clause is inserted stating that a researcher may work without any maximum time limit, save where the third-country national in question is not in possession of a valid passport or equivalent travel document or constitutes a threat to public policy, public security or public health . It added that women should be promoted in scientific research. type: Text adopted by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading body: EP
events
  • date: 2004-03-16T00:00:00 type: Legislative proposal published body: EC docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/registre/docs_autres_institutions/commission_europeenne/com/2004/0178/COM_COM(2004)0178_EN.pdf title: COM(2004)0178 url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!DocNumber&lg=EN&type_doc=COMfinal&an_doc=2004&nu_doc=178 title: EUR-Lex summary: PURPOSE : facilitating the admission of third-country researchers into the EU. PROPOSED ACT : Council Recommendation. CONTENT : this Recommendation calls on the Member States to adopt a number of practical measures to facilitate the admission of third-country researchers in the European Union. It is being proposed in tandem with a Directive outlining the specific procedures for admitting third-country nationals for research purposes in the EU and within the context of the Lisbon Agenda (please refer to CNS/2004/0061). The Recommendation will make it possible for Member States to take action on a number of points in advance of the Directive's transposition into national law. This is done by calling on the Member States to implement measures, which are in keeping with the Directive. Additionally, the Recommendation outlines measures relating to family reunification and co-operation between the Member States. Matters, which are not specifically addressed in the Directive. The proposed Recommendation covers four areas: - admission for the purposes of research; residence permits; family re-unification and operational co-operation. On the question of "admission for the purposes of research", the main priority is to ensure that researchers from third-countries have rapid and easy access to research posts without any time constraints. The measures being proposed include: - The abolition of work permits to help speed up the admission procedure for researchers in the EU. Member States are asked to choose between waiving permit requirements or granting permits automatically, depending on the formula most suited to their administrative procedures. - Researchers from third-countries should not be subject to quota restrictions. - Access to research posts should not be subject to a maximum time limit. Concerning "resident permits", the set of measures being proposed relate to the duration and issue of residence permits. The specific measures being proposed are: - Permits should be issued quickly and in as straightforward a manner as possible. Member States are asked to set targets for issuing permits within thirty days. - To abolish time limits and ensure that researchers' residence permits can in principle always be renewed. - To ease the transposition of the Directive by calling on Member States to harmonise their procedures. Implementing such measures early will help build up a system of trust between the immigration authorities and the research organisations. "Family Reunification" is considered a particularly important issue, not least because it is not addressed in the Directive. Researchers planning to live and work in Europe will naturally want to know what status their family will have. In light of this the Recommendation suggests that measures should be adopted which go beyond the measures contained in the 2003 Directive on the right to family reunification. The proposed measures call on the Member States to: - Facilitate the admission of persons seeking family reunification with a researcher. - Allow family re-unification even if the application is being made when family members are already legally present on theterritory. This is being proposed in order not to compromise "on-the-spot" admission applications. - Offer favourable treatment to family members of a researcher seeking a work permit. - Offer shorter deadlines that those laid down in their domestic law for family re-unification. - Scrap a waiting period for applications submitted by researchers. Lastly, the final section of the Recommendation contains a series of administrative measures across the board, aimed at facilitating the implementation of the Recommendation and, ultimately, the Directive. The measures proposed call on the Member States to: - Inform the Commission about any measures they adopt to facilitate the entry and residence of researchers from third countries. - Collect and pass on to the Commission statistics regarding the residence permits they issue to researchers and their families. - Nominate a contact person for the admission of researchers from third-countries within the competent authorities. - Pass on information regarding the provisions of the Directive in Embassies. - Request research organisation to nominate a contact person to brief researchers from third countries and promote co-operation with the immigration authorities. - Network with one another. The launching of the European Researchers' Mobility Portal on the Internet and the creation of the network of mobility centres, which covers 33 countries, should help this objective.
  • date: 2004-06-08T00:00:00 type: Debate in Council body: CSL docs: url: http://register.consilium.europa.eu/content/out?lang=EN&typ=SET&i=SMPL&ROWSPP=25&RESULTSET=1&NRROWS=500&DOC_LANCD=EN&ORDERBY=DOC_DATE+DESC&CONTENTS=2588*&MEET_DATE=08/06/2004 title: 2588
  • date: 2004-09-15T00:00:00 type: Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading body: EP
  • date: 2005-03-16T00:00:00 type: Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading body: EP
  • date: 2005-03-16T00:00:00 type: Additional information body: all summary: EP: decision of the committee responsible, 1st reading/single reading The committee adopted the report by Vincent PEILLON (PES, FR) approving the proposed Recommendation under the consultation procedure, subject to a few amendments. MEPs stressed inter alia that there was a need to promote women's involvement in scientific research. Member States should also ensure that mechanisms are in place to help the private sector invest in innovation as well as research.
  • date: 2005-03-18T00:00:00 type: Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading body: EP
  • date: 2005-04-01T00:00:00 type: Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A6-2005-54&language=EN title: A6-0054/2005
  • date: 2005-04-12T00:00:00 type: Results of vote in Parliament body: EP docs: url: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/sda.do?id=3936&l=en title: Results of vote in Parliament
  • date: 2005-04-12T00:00:00 type: Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P6-TA-2005-88 title: T6-0088/2005 summary: The European Parliament adopted a resolution drafted by Vincent PEILLON (PES, FR) broadly approving the proposal with a few amendments. Parliament deleted the clause whereby Member States must guarantee third-country nationals the possibility of working as a researcher without any maximum time limit, save where an exception is justified by the needs of the researchers’ country of origin. Instead, a clause is inserted stating that a researcher may work without any maximum time limit, save where the third-country national in question is not in possession of a valid passport or equivalent travel document or constitutes a threat to public policy, public security or public health . It added that women should be promoted in scientific research.
  • date: 2005-06-06T00:00:00 type: Debate in Council body: CSL docs: url: http://register.consilium.europa.eu/content/out?lang=EN&typ=SET&i=SMPL&ROWSPP=25&RESULTSET=1&NRROWS=500&DOC_LANCD=EN&ORDERBY=DOC_DATE+DESC&CONTENTS=2665*&MEET_DATE=06/06/2005 title: 2665
  • date: 2005-10-12T00:00:00 type: Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament body: EP/CSL
  • date: 2005-10-12T00:00:00 type: End of procedure in Parliament body: EP
  • date: 2005-11-03T00:00:00 type: Final act published in Official Journal summary: PURPOSE : to contribute to the achievement of the Lisbon objectives by making it easier for researchers easier to enter and move within the Community, in order to increase the attractiveness of the Community for researchers throughout the world. LEFISLATIVE ACT : Council Recommendation 2005/762/EC to facilitate the admission of third-country nationals to carry out scientific research in the European Community. CONTENT : This Recommendation is part of a series of measures to facilitate the admission of researchers. The measures include this Recommendation, and a Directive on a specific procedure for admitting third-country nationals for purposes of scientific research. The Recommendation covers four areas in which the Member States are asked to adopt measures to facilitate the admission of third-country nationals: admission for the purposes of research, issue of residence permits, family reunification and operational cooperation. Pending implementation of the Directive by the Member States, the recommendation calls on Member States to facilitate the admission of such individuals already. The Directive and the Recommendation are completed by a third text: a Recommendation to facilitate the issue by Member States of uniform short-stay visas for researchers from third countries, which was adopted by the Council on 18 July 2005. (Please see COD20040063.) Member States are recommended, in the area of admission for the purpose of carrying out research : -to encourage the admission of researchers by providing them with favourable conditions for carrying out research, preferably by exempting them from work permit requirements, or alternatively by providing for work permits to be issued automatically or under fast-track procedures; -to refrain from using quotas to restrict the admission of third-country nationals for research posts; -to guarantee third-country nationals the possibility of working as a researcher; In the area of residence permits : -to issue residence permits in response to applications as soon as possible, and facilitate fast-track procedures; -to guarantee third-country nationals working as researchers that their residence permits will be renewed; -gradually to involve the research organisations in the admission procedure for researchers; In the area of family reunification , Member States should facilitate and support the reunification of family members, by providing them with favourable and attractive conditions and procedures; In the area of operational cooperation, Member States are: -to facilitate access of researchers to the relevant information and promote its availability on all the relevant information sources; -to promote contact persons networks within the competent administrations; -to encourage research organisations to develop such networks; -to inform the Commission of the measures they have adopted.
other
  • body: CSL type: Council Meeting council: Former Council configuration
  • body: EC dg: url: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/ title: Justice
procedure/final/title
Old
OJ L 289 03.11.2005, p. 0026-0028
New
OJ L 289 03.11.2005, p. 0026-0028
procedure/final/url
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http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:L:2005:289:SOM:EN:HTML
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https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L:2005:289:TOC
procedure/subject
Old
  • 2.20.01 Freedom of movement, right of residence, identity checks
  • 3.50.06 Research staff, researchers
New
2.20.01
Freedom of movement, right of residence, identity checks
3.50.06
Research staff, researchers
links/European Commission/title
Old
PreLex
New
EUR-Lex
procedure/final/url
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http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L:2005:289:TOC
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activities
  • date: 2004-03-16T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/registre/docs_autres_institutions/commission_europeenne/com/2004/0178/COM_COM(2004)0178_EN.pdf title: COM(2004)0178 type: Legislative proposal published celexid: CELEX:52004DC0178:EN body: EC type: Legislative proposal published commission: DG: url: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/ title: Justice
  • body: CSL meeting_id: 2588 docs: url: http://register.consilium.europa.eu/content/out?lang=EN&typ=SET&i=SMPL&ROWSPP=25&RESULTSET=1&NRROWS=500&DOC_LANCD=EN&ORDERBY=DOC_DATE+DESC&CONTENTS=2588*&MEET_DATE=08/06/2004 type: Debate in Council title: 2588 council: Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) date: 2004-06-08T00:00:00 type: Council Meeting
  • date: 2004-09-15T00:00:00 body: EP type: Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading committees: body: EP responsible: False committee: ITRE date: 2004-10-07T00:00:00 committee_full: Industry, Research and Energy rapporteur: group: PPE-DE name: VAKALIS Nikolaos body: EP responsible: True committee: LIBE date: 2004-10-05T00:00:00 committee_full: Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs rapporteur: group: PSE name: PEILLON Vincent
  • date: 2005-03-16T00:00:00 body: all type: Additional information
  • date: 2005-03-16T00:00:00 body: EP type: Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading committees: body: EP responsible: False committee: ITRE date: 2004-10-07T00:00:00 committee_full: Industry, Research and Energy rapporteur: group: PPE-DE name: VAKALIS Nikolaos body: EP responsible: True committee: LIBE date: 2004-10-05T00:00:00 committee_full: Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs rapporteur: group: PSE name: PEILLON Vincent
  • date: 2005-03-18T00:00:00 body: EP type: Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading committees: body: EP responsible: False committee: ITRE date: 2004-10-07T00:00:00 committee_full: Industry, Research and Energy rapporteur: group: PPE-DE name: VAKALIS Nikolaos body: EP responsible: True committee: LIBE date: 2004-10-05T00:00:00 committee_full: Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs rapporteur: group: PSE name: PEILLON Vincent
  • date: 2005-04-01T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A6-2005-54&language=EN type: Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading title: A6-0054/2005 body: EP committees: body: EP responsible: False committee: ITRE date: 2004-10-07T00:00:00 committee_full: Industry, Research and Energy rapporteur: group: PPE-DE name: VAKALIS Nikolaos body: EP responsible: True committee: LIBE date: 2004-10-05T00:00:00 committee_full: Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs rapporteur: group: PSE name: PEILLON Vincent type: Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading
  • date: 2005-04-12T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/sda.do?id=3936&l=en type: Results of vote in Parliament title: Results of vote in Parliament url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P6-TA-2005-88 type: Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading title: T6-0088/2005 body: EP type: Results of vote in Parliament
  • body: CSL meeting_id: 2665 docs: url: http://register.consilium.europa.eu/content/out?lang=EN&typ=SET&i=SMPL&ROWSPP=25&RESULTSET=1&NRROWS=500&DOC_LANCD=EN&ORDERBY=DOC_DATE+DESC&CONTENTS=2665*&MEET_DATE=06/06/2005 type: Debate in Council title: 2665 council: Competitiveness (Internal Market, Industry, Research and Space) date: 2005-06-06T00:00:00 type: Council Meeting
  • date: 2005-10-12T00:00:00 body: CSL type: Council Meeting council: Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) meeting_id: 2683
  • date: 2005-10-12T00:00:00 body: EP type: End of procedure in Parliament
  • date: 2005-10-12T00:00:00 body: EP/CSL type: Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
  • date: 2005-11-03T00:00:00 type: Final act published in Official Journal
committees
  • body: EP responsible: False committee: ITRE date: 2004-10-07T00:00:00 committee_full: Industry, Research and Energy rapporteur: group: PPE-DE name: VAKALIS Nikolaos
  • body: EP responsible: True committee: LIBE date: 2004-10-05T00:00:00 committee_full: Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs rapporteur: group: PSE name: PEILLON Vincent
links
European Commission
other
  • body: CSL type: Council Meeting council: Former Council configuration
  • body: EC dg: url: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/ title: Justice
procedure
reference
2004/0062(CNS)
title
Scientific research: admission of third-country national researchers to the Community, application measures
legal_basis
EC Treaty (after Amsterdam) EC 063
stage_reached
Procedure completed
subtype
Legislation
instrument
Recommendation
type
CNS - Consultation procedure
final
subject