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**Council of the**
**European Union**

**Interinstitutional File:**

**2020/0019(NLE)**

**'I' ITEM NOTE**

**Brussels, 15 May 2020**
**(OR. en)**

**8003/20**

**SCH-EVAL 47**
**MIGR 37**
**COMIX 212**

From: General Secretariat of the Council

To: Permanent Representatives Committee

No. prev. doc.: 8002/20

Subject: Draft Council Implementing Decision setting out a recommendation on
addressing the deficiencies identified in the 2019 evaluation of the **Czech**
**Republic** on the application of the Schengen acquis in the field of **return**

**-** Decision to use the written procedure for the adoption

1. Following the Council's adoption of Regulation (EU) No 1053/2013 establishing an

evaluation and monitoring mechanism to verify the application of the Schengen acquis, a

team of experts from the Member States and the Commission carried out an evaluation of the

Czech Republic on the application of the Schengen acquis in the field of return in 2019.

2. In accordance with that Regulation, the Commission submitted to the Council a proposal for a

Council Implementing Decision setting out a Recommendation designed to address the

deficiencies identified in the course of the evaluation and ensure that the Czech Republic

applies all Schengen rules related to return correctly and effectively.

3. The Working Party for Schengen Matters (Evaluation), including the Mixed Committee

partners Norway, Iceland, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, approved the proposal for the

Council Implementing Decision setting out a Recommendation on 13 May 2020.

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4. The Permanent Representatives Committee is therefore asked:

   - to recommend that the Council adopt the draft Council Implementing Decision, as set out in

8002/20;

   - to decide, in accordance with the first subparagraph of Article 12(1) of the Council's Rules

of Procedure and Article 1 of Council Decision 2020/430, that the Council uses the written

procedure for its adoption.

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