Parliamentary question - O-000049/2020Parliamentary question
O-000049/2020

Obligations in the field of visa reciprocity in accordance with Article 7 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1806

Question for oral answer O-000049/2020
to the Commission
Rule 136
Juan Fernando López Aguilar
on behalf of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

Procedure : 2020/2605(RSP)
Document stages in plenary
Document selected :  
O-000049/2020
Texts tabled :
O-000049/2020 (B9-0022/2020)
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In 2013, Parliament and the Council adopted Regulation 1289/2013 modifying, among other elements, the so-called reciprocity mechanism of Regulation 539/2001 (following codification, Regulation (EU) 2018/1806). The objective of this mechanism is to ensure that EU citizens are subject to the same conditions when travelling to a third country as nationals of that third country are when travelling to the EU. The reciprocity mechanism initiates a procedure, with precise time frames and actions to be taken with a view to ending a situation of non-reciprocity, the moment the Commission is notified of such a situation by a Member State. Notifications by five Member States were published by the Commission on 12 April 2014 [1] .

The mechanism provides, after intermediary steps, that ‘if the third country has not lifted the visa requirement within 24 months of the date of publication of the notifications, the Regulation requires the Commission to adopt a delegated act temporarily suspending for 12 months the visa waiver for nationals of that third country’ [2] .

Instead of presenting the delegated act as required, however, the Commission decided to present a series of communications to explain the state of play.

In this context, the Commission is asked to answer the following questions:

Submitted: 22/07/2020

Lapses: 23/10/2020

Last updated: 5 August 2020
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