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Joint centre of EU countries for issuing visa from 2008
Belgrade,
16 July 2007
Serbian Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Milica Delevic-Djilas said yesterday that the joint centre of EU member countries for issuing Schengen visas could open as early as next year.
In a statement to the news agency Tanjug, Delevic-Djilas stressed that the opening of a joint centre for issuing visas is as yet only an initiative which could be realised by the next year, when the visa relaxations come into force.
She explained that visas would be issued according to the procedure specified in the agreement on visa relaxations with the EU which Serbia initialled in May, and applications for visa, could be submitted in one centre, instead of embassies which would simplify the procedure.
According to Delevic-Djilas such a pilot project exists in Kishinev, Moldova, where countries signatory to the Schengen Agreement had a stronger interest in opening such a centre. She added that not all Schengen signatory countries had diplomatic representation in Moldova, but a joint centre allowed them to be linked.
Delevic-Djilas recalled that countries signatory to the Schengen Agreement include France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Spain, Greece, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Sweden and Finland, as well as Norway and Iceland which are not members of the EU.
Special visas are required for Great Britain and Ireland, as well as countries of the EU which entered the “European family” in 2004.
According to the agreement on visa relaxations, which should come into force on January 1, 2008, experts, businesspeople, journalists, students, sportspeople, artists and civil servants will get visas for travelling to EU member countries more easily.
She explained that visas would be issued according to the procedure specified in the agreement on visa relaxations with the EU which Serbia initialled in May, and applications for visa, could be submitted in one centre, instead of embassies which would simplify the procedure.
According to Delevic-Djilas such a pilot project exists in Kishinev, Moldova, where countries signatory to the Schengen Agreement had a stronger interest in opening such a centre. She added that not all Schengen signatory countries had diplomatic representation in Moldova, but a joint centre allowed them to be linked.
Delevic-Djilas recalled that countries signatory to the Schengen Agreement include France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Spain, Greece, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Sweden and Finland, as well as Norway and Iceland which are not members of the EU.
Special visas are required for Great Britain and Ireland, as well as countries of the EU which entered the “European family” in 2004.
According to the agreement on visa relaxations, which should come into force on January 1, 2008, experts, businesspeople, journalists, students, sportspeople, artists and civil servants will get visas for travelling to EU member countries more easily.
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