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The Pirker Report considers the Commission communication on illegal immigration, which rightly seeks to combine various documents on a number of different issues, such as, among others, the fight against illegal immigration, the smuggling and trafficking of human beings, control of external borders, and policy on return of illegal residents. This is long overdue.
A large number of the proposals tabled in this regard should be approved. Of particular importance is the proposal to set up the Visa Information System (VIS), aimed at combating fraud, especially using biometric identifiers. This, again, is long overdue. Such information ought to be extended to make it possible to ascertain that visitors to the country have indeed left once their visa has expired.
Similarly, it puts forward excellent measures with the aim of establishing cooperation to support countries whose borders at the greatest risk.
The report is adversely affected, however, by the Commission’s reluctance to put in place an integrated system of external border control, for which the Draft Constitution (Article III-166) aims to provide a legal basis. It should be reiterated that, while Member States must help each other, each State must retain absolute control of its borders."@en1
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