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The aim of this initiative is for Cyprus and the two countries that joined the EU in 2007 – Romania and Bulgaria – to be able to introduce a simplified regime for the control of persons at the external borders, based on the unilateral equivalence of visas and residence permits.
This recognition is limited to transit through the territory of these three Member States for a period of up to five days.
I firmly support this simplified regime since third country nationals holding a visa issued by another Member State who would benefit from this system, have already been subject to a strict screening process in that Member State and were not considered a threat to public order or a risk in terms of illegal immigration.
These rules on the unilateral recognition of visas and residence permits were introduced for the first time into the Community
on visas in 2006, with the aim of simplifying the transit of certain categories of persons and, at the same time, avoiding unnecessary administrative burdens on consular offices.
For the nine countries that joined the EU in 2004 and became fully integrated into the Schengen area from 21 December 2007, mutual recognition of these documents became mandatory at the end of the transitional period."@en1
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