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Third countries whose nationals are subject to or exempt from a visa requirement when crossing the external borders: holders of Serbian passports issued by the Serbian Coordination Directorate (Koordinaciona uprava)

2023/0418(COD)·9th term·LIBE·COD - Ordinary legislative procedure (ex-codecision procedure)·CompletedProcedure completed
Subjects: External borders crossing and controls, visas
Rapporteur (the Member appointed to lead Parliament's work on this text): NEMEC Matjaž (S&D)
Summary

Legislation on third countries whose nationals are subject to or exempt from a visa requirement when crossing external borders, concerning holders of Serbian passports issued by the Serbian Coordination Directorate. The amendments raise concerns that issuance of these passports to residents of Kosovo violates Kosovo's sovereignty, flag security and data risks, dual passports circumventing the 90-day visa-free limit, repatriation and readmission ambiguities, and the Serbia-Kosovo normalisation dialogue.

Procedure timeline

  1. Committee amendments tabled
    18 Mar 2024
  2. Plenary vote — Adopted
    23 Apr 2024 · On the Commission proposal (the draft law)
  3. Procedure completed
12
Amendments
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1
Members
tabled at least one
1
Committee(s)
18 Mar 2024
Dates

Plenary votes

1 roll-call votes

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  1. 23 Apr 2024Main voteAdopted
    On the Commission proposal (the draft law)
    Official label: Proposition de la Commission · what was voted ↗
    406 for97 against94 abstentions108 did not vote
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Official amendment documents

PE759.970 ↗

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Members who amended this procedure

1 Members · by amendment count
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Lukas MANDL
European People's Party (EPP) · Austria
24(24 solo)

The amendments, in full text

24 amendments

Every amendment as tabled — original text, proposed change and justification, with a link to the official PDF.

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