“Europe without barriers” releases the main conclusions of independent monitoring on Implementation of the Action Plan on Visa Liberalisation, granted to Ukraine by the EU.The conclusions were elaborated by the experts of “Europe without barriers” within the frame of civic monitoring.
Civic monitoring findings of VLAP Implementation by Ukraine
Executive Summary:
Progress of Ukraine on the way to visa free regime with the EU is uneven and disproportionate. Major legal acts within the VLAP where adopted in May-October 2011 which proved to be the most productive period during the entire 1st phase of VLAP. Since November 2011 the pace of the VLAP implementation has slowed down.
Having achieved considerable and notable progress in Block 2 (Illegal Immigration including Readmission) and a certain moderate success in Block 3 (Public Order and Security), at the same time Ukraine completely failed Block 1 (Document Security including Biometrics) and settled for rather modest advances in Block 4 (External Relations and Fundamental Rights).
In order to improve the situation and promptly enter the second phase of the Action Plan in the near future Ukraine should adopt at least three laws: (1) On Documents Identifying a Person and Confirming Citizenship of Ukraine, (2) on Preventing and Combating Discrimination and (3) on Special Agency on Anticorruption Policy. In addition, more than 10 relevant by-laws should be adopted; they would establish adequate working mechanisms for implementation of these and other, previously adopted laws.
As of February 2012, the most optimistic prognosis is Ukraine’s transition to the second phase of the Action Plan at the end of 2012. Expectations that the decision can be made in the first half of the years proved to be overoptimistic due to a certain slowdown in the Action Plan
implementation after October 2011.
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