Revision of the visa code
Although an increasing number of people have been travelling to the EU for tourism and business in recent years, visa application procedures are still costly and cumbersome. With the recast proposal on the visa code, the Commission aims to facilitate tourism, trade and business, whilst strengthening security and mitigating irregular migration. The impact assessment accompanying the proposal provides an overall convincing analysis tackling the problems of (1) insufficient finances to support visa processing; and (2) Member States' diverging practices when issuing multiple-entry visas. The Commission, however, also proposed (3) to address the lack of cooperation of some third countries in readmission matters in the visa code. One would have expected a more thorough analysis on this last aspect considering that there is no hard evidence on how visa leverage can translate into better cooperation with third countries on readmission. The Commission made efforts to consult with stakeholders and provide data, yet, the IA displays a general lack of data, statistics and evidence.
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- análisis económico
- aproximación de legislaciones
- ASUNTOS SOCIALES
- comunicación de datos
- consolidación del Derecho de la UE
- construcción europea
- cooperación administrativa
- cooperación policial (UE)
- DERECHO
- Derecho de la Unión Europea
- Derecho internacional
- ECONOMÍA
- EDUCACIÓN Y COMUNICACIÓN
- estadística
- formalidad administrativa
- frontera interior de la UE
- información y tratamiento de la información
- informática y tratamiento de datos
- intercambio de información
- migración ilegal
- movimientos migratorios
- poder ejecutivo y administración pública
- política de visados de la UE
- sistema de información
- Sistema de Información Schengen
- UNIÓN EUROPEA
- VIDA POLÍTICA