Proposal for a Council Decision determining the EU position for a Recommendation of the Joint Readmission Committee set up under the Readmission Agreement between the European Community and the Russian Federation, with regard to readmission applications requiring the arrangement of interviews

The Agreement between the European Union and Russia on readmission entered into force on 1 June 2007. According to Article 19(1)(b) of the Agreement, the Joint Readmission Committee has the task "to decide on arrangements necessary for the uniform execution of [the] Agreement". According to Article 6(3) of the Committee's Rules of Procedure adopted by its Decision No 1/2007 of 25 July 2007, the Committee may adopt recommendations.

A first recommendation with regard to readmission applications requiring the arrangement of interviews was adopted by the Joint Readmission Committee on 2 June 2009. It appears that this recommendation should be further clarified by a second one to provide guidelines when time limits for the arrangement of interviews could not be respected, in order to reschedule those interviews.

EUR-Lex: COM(2015)666: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2015:666:FIN

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