PURPOSE: to repeal a number of obsolete Union acts belonging to the Schengen acquis.
LEGISLATIVE ACT: Regulation (EU) 2016/93 of the European Parliament and of the Council repealing certain acts from the Schengen acquis.
CONTENT: in the context of the better law-making strategy that the institutions of the Union are implementing, the Regulation repeals a number of acts belonging to the Schengen acquis which are no longer relevant due to their temporary nature or because their content has been taken up by successive acts.
11 decisions of the Schengen Executive Committee because their content has been taken up in successive acts. These concern: (i) visa policy; (ii) exchange of statistical information; (iii) issuance of Schengen visas; (iv) evidence under readmission agreements; (v) task force; (vi) difficulties on obtaining laissez-passer; (vii) stamping of passports; (viii) fight against illegal immigration (two Decisions); (ix) document advisers; (x) liaison officers;
Council Regulation (EC) No 189/2008 of 18 February 2008 on the tests of the second generation Schengen Information System (SIS II) which exhausted its legal effect once the SIS II became operational on 9 April 2013.
This Regulation constitutes a development of provisions of the Schengen acquis in which the United Kingdom and Ireland do not take part. These two countries are therefore not taking part in its adoption and is not bound by it or subject to its application.
Denmark is not bound by Regulation or subject to its application, but that it shall decide, in accordance with Protocol No 22 annexed to the Treaties, decide within a period of six months after the Council has decided on this Regulation whether it will implement it in its national law.
ENTRY INTO FORCE: 22.2.2016.