VISA POLICY WITHIN THE EUROPEAN UNION STRUCTURE MELONI A. Księgarnia

The book focuses on the common visa policy as a case study on the constitutional structure of the European Union. After introducing the nature of visas, the book concentrates on the difficulties in forging a common visa policy at European level. Cooperation on visas has been characterized by a continuous reformulation of the framework for cooperation. The book describes cooperation before the Treaty on European Union adopted at Maastricht, under the Maastricht Treaty, and under the Treaty of Amsterdam. Furthermore, the book traces the essential characteristics of the common visa policy restrictiveness, flexibility and dependency on activity under the intergovernmental Pillars , relating these to the nature of the EU and considering the working of the EU pillar structure in this context. The working of the pillar structure is also considered in relation to some of the Unions efforts to build an area of freedom, security and justice

Contents:

Foreword.

List of abbreviations

Introduction

1 Visas in international and municipal laws.

1.1 Limits on state discretion over the movement of persons across state frontiers .

1.1.1 State discretion over entry, residence and expulsion of aliens .

1.1.2 Limits on the State’s discretion over exit of its nationals.

1.1.3 Basic international law rules governing movement across frontiers .

1.2 Legal and political significance of passports and visas

1.2.1 Definition and functions of passports.

1.2.2 Definition and functions of visas

1.3 Conclusion

2 From early cooperation to failure of the Maastricht system

2.1 The proposed passport union

2.2 Pre-Maastricht Cooperation .

2.2.1 The Single Market Project and interpretation of Article 8a

2.2.2 Intergovernmental cooperation: the Ad hoc Group on Immigration and the Coordinators Group

2.2.3 The Schengen Convention

2.3 The Treaty on European Union agreed at Maastricht

2.3.1 The negotiations

2.3.2 The Third Pillar on Justice and Home Affairs.

2.3.3 Article 100c EC.

2.4 Progress on visa policy under the Maastricht Treaty

2.4.1 The Visa Regulation and the Draft External Frontiers Convention.

2.4.2 The Joint Action on Airport Transit Visas

2.4.3 The Regulation on a uniform format for visas.

2.4.4 Other measures

2.5 Conclusion .

VIII Contents

3 Visa policy under Amsterdam: restrictiveness and flexibility

3.1 The negotiations leading to Title IV EC on visas, asylum, and immigration .

3.2 The legal framework under Title IV EC

3.2.1 The legal basis.

3.2.2 The variable geometry arrangements

3.2.3 Jurisdiction of the ECJ

3.2.4 Provisions safeguarding national competence

3.2.5 Emergency situations .

3.3 The Vienna Action Plan and the Tampere European Council .

3.4 Characteristics of the emerging common visa policy .

3.4.1 Restrictiveness

3.4.2 Flexibility

3.5 No progress.

3.5.1 Airport Transit Visas.

3.5.2 Free movement for visa holders .

3.6 Measures under development

3.7 Changes proposed by the Constitutional Treaty .

3.8 Conclusion

4 Consistency I: the cross-pillar nature of visa policy.

4.1 Managing the three-pillar structure: the EU as a unity .

4.1.1 Relationship between the Pillars

4.1.2 Consistency .

4.1.3 The EU as a single system

4.2 Consistency of Union activity under the Maastricht Treaty .

4.2.2 Disputes over competence.

4.2.3 Cross-pillar measures

4.3 Consistency of Union activity under the Amsterdam Treaty.

4.3.1 Nature of the common visa policy: mutual recognition of entry conditions and cooperation under the intergovernmental Pillars

4.3.2 Local consular cooperation .

4.4 Conclusion .

5 Consistency II: the 'area of freedom, security and justice' .

5.1 Consistency and maximization of Union activity .

5.2 The European Council: formulating Union policy

5.2.1 Conclusions of the European Council

5.2.2 Common strategies

5.2.3 Implications of the role and approach of the European Council .

5.3 The Council and the Commission

5.3.1 The Vienna Action Plan .

5.3.2 Comprehensive Plan to combat illegal immigration and trafficking in human beings .

Contents IX

5.3.3 Integration of justice and home affairs concerns in the EU external policies

5.3.4 Coordination of treaty objectives .

5.4 Conclusion .

Conclusions .

Annex.

References .

Table of cases

Index .

220 pages, Softcover

Written for: Libraries, European institutions, national ministries, embassies
Keywords: European Union, Immigration Law, Justice and Home Affairs, Visa Policy

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