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Third Report under the Visa Suspension Mechanism, COM(2020) 325 final
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What the document holds
Third Report under the Visa Suspension Mechanism, COM(2020) 325 (10 Jul 2020, 24 pages): Western Balkans, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine; migration, asylum, readmission, security. Programme content: Albania draft citizenship law that could create an investor scheme and Commission letter of October 2019 (no programme id for Albania); Montenegro scheme since 1 Jan 2019, 24 applications, five positive final decisions, "no passports have yet been issued"; North Macedonia December 2012 law change on special economic interest; Moldova suspension 19 Jul 2019, extension December 2019, 8 persons naturalised and 34 pending, new moratorium (26/28 Feb, in force 20 Mar 2020), abolition law of 18 Jun 2020 effective 1 Sep 2020. All four numbers and the Moldova events are already in the data (this id, intl-ec-swd-2020-132 and Moldovan sources). "No passports issued" is words and is not recorded as 0. The rest (refusals of entry, asylum, crime) is out of scope.
What it supports
5 rows on this site come from this document. Each one opens with the page and the exact words.
Numbers (4)
- Applications pending34 applications2020-07 · European Commission 2020Reported by othersMoldova · Citizenship by investment programme
- People granted citizenship8 persons2018-11/2019-07 · European Commission 2020Reported by othersMoldova · Citizenship by investment programme
- Applications approved5 applications2019-01/2020-07 · European Commission 2020Reported by othersMontenegro · Special investment programme
- Applications received24 applications2019-01/2020-07 · European Commission 2020Reported by othersMontenegro · Special investment programme
About the document
What it covers Montenegro: 24 applications, 5 positive decisions (mid-2020). Moldova: suspension timeline 2019-2020, 8 citizenships, 34 pending.
Notes Page numbers are PDF page indices.
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