The agreement is seen as a crucial step toward a visa-free regime between Russia and the EU and eases the procedure of obtaining visas for certain categories of people as businessmen, scientists, cultural figures, athletes, journalists, students and teachers, and relatives.
The readmission agreement is designed to facilitate the expulsion of illegal immigrants who have come from Russia or via Russia from any other country. Under the agreement, the EU provides funds for taking back and resettling these people.
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The European Parliament approved and adopted on 26 April 2007 a regulation providing for special rapid response teams to be set up to give technical and operational assistance in the case of major influxes of illegal migrants over the external borders of any EU Member State.
In negotiations on the regulation, questions immediately arose over the funding of the teams and the need for all Member States to contribute financial and human resources. According to the draft regulation, it will be up to the Frontex Management Board to decide by a three-quarters majority the profiles and the overall number of border guards to be made available by each Member State.
The salaries of border guards deployed in rapid border intervention teams deployed in a host country will continue to be paid by the countries of origin, but the additional costs of operations (travel expenses, repatriation, insurance, living costs) will be borne by Frontex. To this end, Parliament has boosted the agency’s budget by €10 million for 2007.
The decision as to whether an influx amounts to an “emergency” justifying a request to mobilise an intervention team will by taken by the Director of Frontex.
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This Common Centre hosted in the Hungarian Embassy on Chisinau will facilitate in a very tangible way the issuance of visas for Moldovan citizens. It has the capacity to receive some 10,000 visas applications per year.
On 26 Apr 2007 Vice-President Frattini also initialled, with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Moldova, the agreements for readmission and visa facilitation between the European Community and the Republic of Moldova. The agreement waives the visa fee for the Moldovan citizen.
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This map is the result of a joint assessment carried out by ICMPD, EUROPOL and FRONTEX in december 2006.
It shows the central Mediterranean – from Libya to Sicily, Lampedusa, Malta – where operation NAUTILUS took place in october 2006. The original operation JASON I failed to materialize, when Lybia objected to a cooperation in its territorial waters.
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