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This agreement between the European Community and Ukraine on the facilitation of issuance of short-stay visas is to be signed in parallel with the readmission agreement as these are ‘mutually conditional’.
As indicated, these agreements form part of the EU’s fight against ‘illegal immigration’ and its instruments. The report expressly accepts the ‘recommendations as to need for providing adequate technical and financial support for Ukraine by the EC and the European Commission in particular, in achieving high level of implementation of readmission agreement’. However, we are critical in this respect.
Despite the agreement introducing strict procedural deadlines, setting preferential visa fees, including a full visa fee waiver for certain ‘categories of persons’ (?), and providing for a simplified procedure in a number of cases, this is less than what has been demanded and what is required by thousands of Ukrainian citizens.
What the rapporteurs have failed to realise is that there is a need for the effective implementation of measures aimed at facilitating issuance of visas to broader sections of Ukrainian society, or even a non-discriminatory visa exemption regime such as Ukraine provides for citizens of the various EU countries.
We therefore voted accordingly."@en1
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