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Group visas may be issued to groups of between 5 and 50 people. The person in charge of the group
shall possess an individual passport and, where necessary, an individual visa.
By way of derogation from the foregoing, group transit visas may be issued to seamen in accordance
with the provisions of Council Regulation (EC) No 415/2003 of 27 February 2003 on the issue of
visas at the border, including the issue of such visas to seamen in transit [2].
2.2. Long-stay visas
Visas for visits exceeding three months shall be national visas issued by one of the Member States in
accordance with its national legislation.
However, such visas shall, for a period of not more than three months from their initial date of
validity, be valid concurrently as uniform short-stay visas, provided that they were issued in
accordance with the common conditions and criteria adopted under or pursuant to the relevant
provisions of Chapter 3, section I of the aforementioned Convention and their holders fulfil the entry
conditions referred to in Article 5(1)(a), (c), (d) and (e) of the Convention and contained in Part IV of
these Instructions. Otherwise, such visas shall enable their holders merely to transit through the
territories of the other Contracting Parties in order to reach the territory of the Member State which
issued the visa, unless the holders do not fulfil the entry conditions referred to in Article 5(1)(a), (d)
and (e) or are on the national list of alerts of the Member State through whose territory they seek to
transit.
2.3. Visas with limited territorial validity
This visa is affixed in exceptional cases to a passport, travel document or other document which
entitles the holder to cross the border, where the visit is authorised only in the national territory of
one or more Contracting Parties, provided that both entry and exit are through the territory of this or
these Contracting Parties (see V.3 of these Instructions).
2.4. Visas issued at the border [3]
2.5. Documents having the same value as a visa, authorising the crossing of external borders: FTD/
FRTD
For facilitated transit, an FTD or an FRTD can be issued in accordance with Council Regulation (EC)
No 693/2003 [4] and (EC) No 694/2003 [5] (see Annex 17).
II. DIPLOMATIC MISSION OR CONSULAR POST RESPONSIBLE
Aliens who are subject to the visa requirement (see Annex 1) and who seek to enter the territory of a
Contracting Party, are obliged to apply to the visa section in the diplomatic mission or consular post
responsible.
1. Determining the State responsible
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