European Parliament legislative resolution on the proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion of the Agreement between the European Community and the Russian Federation on the facilitation of issuance of short-stay visas (8780/2006 - COM(2006)0188 - C6-0169/2006 - 2006/0062(CNS))
Date: 2007-02-15
Institutions: Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, European Commission
Subjects: EU visa policy, Russia, admission of aliens, agreement (EU), national, ratification of an agreement, rights of aliens

29.11.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 287 E/509

Thursday 15 February 2007

Pakistan

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Takes the view that in its draft Strategy Paper and draft National Indicative Programme 2007-2010 for
Pakistan the Commission exceeds its implementing powers laid down in the basic act by including in Non-
focal area 3 of the National Indicative Programme ‘Anti-money laundering’ (1) activities with the overall
objective of ‘contributing to the efforts of the Pakistani authorities to implement UNSCR 1373’; (2) considers
that this objective is not in compliance with Article 2(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006 in that it does
not fulfil the criteria for ODA established by the OECD/DAC;

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Calls on the Commission to withdraw or amend its draft decisions establishing Country Strategy
Papers and Indicative Programmes for Malaysia, Brazil and Pakistan, and to submit to the DCI management
committee new draft decisions fully respecting the provisions of Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006;

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council and Commission, and the parliaments

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and governments of the Member States.

In the Country Strategy Paper's table of contents, this area is referred to as ‘Counter-terrorism and Security’.

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(2) United Nations Security Council Resolution 1373(2001), adopted on 28 September 2001, after the terrorist attacks
of 11 September 2001 in the USA, imposes wide-ranging obligations on all States to prevent and suppress the
financing of terrorism, to establish adequate penalties for terrorist offences, to deny safe haven to terrorists and to
cooperate with other States in criminal proceedings or investigations relating to terrorist acts.

P6_TA(2007)0046

EC-Russia Short-stay Visa Agreement *

legislative resolution on the proposal

European Parliament
for a Council decision on the
conclusion of the Agreement between the European Community and the Russian Federation on
the facilitation of issuance of short-stay visas (8780/2006 — COM(2006)0188 — C6-0169/2006 —
2006/0062(CNS))

(Consultation procedure)

The European Parliament,

— having regard to the proposal for a Council decision (COM(2006)0188) (1),

— having regard to Article 62(2)(b)(i) and (ii) and Article 300(2), first subparagraph, first sentence, of the

EC Treaty,

— having regard to Article 300(3), first subparagraph, of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Council

consulted Parliament (C6-0169/2006),

— having regard to Rules 51 and 83(7) of its Rules of Procedure,

— having regard to the report of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the

opinion of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (A6-0029/2007),

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Approves the conclusion of the Agreement;

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and the Commission, and the govern-

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ments and parliaments of the Member States and of the Russian Federation.

(1) Not yet published in OJ.