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Following a revision of the mailing list invitations have been also sent to locations outside the<br />
capital of those countries which do not apply the <strong>com</strong>mon visa policy yet but <strong>com</strong>mitted to do so,<br />
and reports equally be shared to them.<br />
3. State of play<br />
3.1 Application of the Visa Code<br />
According to Regulation (EC) No 1244/2009 since 19 December 2009 biometric Serbian passports<br />
(excluded those issued by the Serbian Coordination Directorate - Koordinaciona uprava, which<br />
undertook the <strong>com</strong>petence of issuing passports residents in Kosovo* ) are visa free.<br />
Visas are almost exclusively issued to third country nationals residents in Serbia. To be noted that<br />
some Schengen States issue in Belgrade also visas for residents in Kosovo<br />
3.2 Assessment of the need to harmonise the lists of supporting documents<br />
Due to the situation described under 3.1 MS feels no need to harmonize documents at this stage,<br />
consider that practices are broadly speaking harmonized and assess that there are no specific risk of<br />
visa shopping.<br />
3.3 Exchange of information<br />
Information is exchanged on monthly statistics. EUD proposed to standardize information shared in<br />
accordance with Annex XII of the Schengen visa codex.<br />
See enclosed statistic <strong>com</strong>piled for 2013, according to the information provided by Schengen states.<br />
EUD also timely exchanged information <strong>com</strong>ing from HQs on amendments to the Visa Code - visa<br />
waiver suspension mechanism, new rules for calculating short stays of third-country nationals<br />
within the Schengen area, validity of travel documents, table of travel documents<br />
12893/14 PR/lm 153<br />
DG D 1 A<br />
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