European Parliament legislative resolution on the initiative of the French Republic with a view to adopting a Council Regulation on freedom of movement with a long-stay visa (9667/2000 – C5-0374/2000 — 2000/0810(CNS))
Date: 2001-01-18
Institutions: Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, European Parliament
Subjects: EU visa policy, France, Schengen Agreement, free movement of persons

C 262/266

Official Journal of the European Communities

EN

18.9.2001

Thursday 18 January 2001

TEXT PROPOSED
BY THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

AMENDMENTS
BY PARLIAMENT

(Amendment 6)
Article 2

Section 2.2 of Part I of the Common Consular Instructions on
Visas shall be replaced by the following:

Section 2.2 of Part I of the Common Consular Instructions on
Visas shall be replaced by the following:

2.2. Long-stay visas

2.2. Long-stay visas

Visas for visits exceeding three months shall be national
visas issued by one of the Member States in accordance
with its national legislation.

Visas for visits exceeding three months shall be national
visas issued by one of the Member States in accordance
with its national legislation.

However, such visas shall, for three months from their initial
date of validity, be valid concurrently as uniform short-stay
visas, provided that
the entry conditions
their holders fulfil
referred to in Article 5(1) (a), (c), (d) and (e) of the Convention
and reproduced in Part IV of these Instructions. Otherwise, such
visas shall merely enable their holders to transit through the ter-
ritories of the other Contracting Parties in order to reach the
territory of the Member State which issued the visa, unless the
holders do not fulfil the entry conditions referred to in Arti-
cle 5(1) (a), (d) and (e) or are on the national list of alerts of
the Member State through whose territory they seek to transit.

However, they shall be valid as uniform transit visas
authorising their holders to reach the territory of the
Member State which issued the visa, on the under-
standing that the period of transit may not exceed
five days from the date of entry, unless the holders
do not fulfil the entry conditions or are reported as
persons not to be permitted entry by the Member
States through whose territory they seek to transit
(see Annex 4). Once they are registered on the terri-
tory of the Member State which issued the visa, per-
sons who are holders of long-stay visas pending the
issue of their residence permits shall enjoy, in terms
of freedom of movement, the same rights as those
guaranteed to holders of residence permits.

European Parliament legislative resolution on the initiative of the French Republic with a view to
adopting a Council Regulation on freedom of movement with a long-stay visa (9667/2000 .
C5-0374/2000 . 2000/0810(CNS))

(Consultation procedure)

The European Parliament,

( having regard to the initiative of the French Republic (9667/2000) (1),

( having regard to Articles 62(2)(b)(ii) and 63(3)(a) of the EC Treaty,

( having been consulted by the Council pursuant to Article 67 of the EC Treaty (C5-0374/2000),

( having regard to Rule 67 of its Rules of Procedure,

( having regard to the opinion of the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market on the pro-

posed legal basis,

( having regard to the report of the Committee on Citizens’ Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home

Affairs and the opinion of the Committee on Petitions (A5-0388/2000),

1.

Approves the initiative of the French Republic as amended;

Calls on the Council to notify Parliament should it intend to depart from the text approved by Parlia-

2.
ment;

Asks to be consulted again should the Council intend to make substantial modifications to the initia-

3.
tive of the French Republic;

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council, the Commission and the Government of

4.
the French Republic.

(1) OJ C 200, 13.7.2000, p. 4.