Montenegro 2022 Report, Commission Staff Working Document, SWD(2022) 335 final

European Commission Montenegro 2022 Report (SWD(2022) 335, 135 pp.). Programme content: Chapter 23 (PDF pp. 46, 61) and Chapter 4 (PDF pp. 84-85): December 2021 extension to December 2022, March 2022 stricter checks freezing pending applications, May 2022 extra checks on Russian and Belarusian applicants and revocation procedure (no case found), June 2022 lowering of the bank guarantee from EUR 2.5 million to EUR 1 million and children born after the application; statistics January 2019-May 2022: 934 applications counted per person (279 applicants, 655 family members), 409 accepted, 3 rejected, 522 under evaluation (152 applicants, 370 family members), 333 passports (69 in the first four months of 2022), over 70% to Russian citizens; recommendations to terminate (pp. 9, 80). Chapter 4 repeats the statistics. Previously recorded: received 279/655, approved 409, rejected 3, pending 152 and 522, passports 333 and 69, March 2022 event. The rest is out of scope.