DO VFAs FACILITATE? Sample Clauses

DO VFAs FACILITATE?. IMPACT Although the visa facilitation agreements are supposed to offer considerable facilitations to the persons benefiting from them, the above analysis has shown that in theory and in practise several difficulties might sincerely impact the effects of the agreements. The question rises whether the simplification of documentary requirements, the facilitated issuance of MEVs and the reduction or waiver of the visa fee have an actual impact on the number of visas issued. Since the Council and the Commission collect data on the number of visas issued,450 it does not seem that difficult at first sight to analyse the statistics. By simply comparing the number of applications per country and the visas effectively issued on a year by year basis, it should be able to assess whether the VFAs have a positive or rather limited impact on the number of visas issued. But practical but not unimportant details complicate matters. The first VFAs, including the one with Russia, entered into force in January 2008, but at the end of 2007, nine Member States joined the Schengen zone. As these states issue Schengen short-stay visas from 2008 onwards, this automatically leads to an increase in the visa statistics, making it impossible to correctly assess the impact of the VFAs. Nonetheless the evolution from 2007 onwards might give some indication, especially the evolution after the enlargement of the Schengen area. Next to this, both sets of data, from the Commission and Council, are incompatible to perform an easy comparison. The statistics published on the website of the Commission are much more detailed than those of the Council: amongst others, the Commission statistics mentions the number of MEVs issued. This is important having in mind that the issuance of MEVs is one of the intended facilitations of the VFAs. In addition to this all, it is only with the entry into force of the Visa Code that the Schengen states 448 ibid. 449 ibid 18. 450 Until 2008, it was the Council that collected the statistics. From 2009 onwards the Commission collects and analyses the visa data. It should be noted that the analysis of the Commission goes deeper than the one the Council did before. The data from the Council and the Commission can be found, looking at their respective webites. European Commission, ‘Visa statistics for 2010’ <xxxx://xx.xxxxxx.xx/dgs/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/pdf/synthese_2010_with_filters_en.xls> accessed 9 August 2014; European Commission, ‘Visa statistics for...
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