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Mr President, I am only sorry that the House is melting away as we come to these important issues, but perhaps for the next few moments I will not find myself trapped between these passions as I have been recently! Let me come to calmer matters.
In February 2003, in response to the conclusions of the December 2002 Justice and Home Affairs Council, the Commission presented a package of practical measures which seek to alleviate legal inconsistencies and practical difficulties in relation to the stamping of third country nationals' travel documents at the external borders of the Member States. In November 2003 the Commission presented a proposal for a regulation which seeks first to impose an obligation on the Member States to stamp such travel documents systematically; secondly, to lay down the conditions in which the absence of an entry stamp may constitute
evidence that the individual has overstayed in the Member State's territory; and thirdly to ensure that the checks on individuals at external borders are only relaxed in exceptional and unforeseen circumstances.
The obligation on the Member States' authorities to stamp the travel documents of third country nationals systematically will make it possible to use the lack of an entry stamp as
evidence of an illegal stay. This presumption of illegality may be challenged by any other evidence that the third country national may be able to produce.
To allow Member States time to put in place the necessary practical arrangements for implementation, the regulation will not come into effect until 1 May this year. On this date many of the practical implementation challenges will, in our judgment, cease to exist because enlargement will mean that the travel documents of citizens of the new Member States will no longer need to be stamped. I hope that those honourable Members who have delayed bedtime to listen to these remarks will find them helpful and I look forward to listening to the debate."@en1
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