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EUROPEAN UNION DELEGATION TO THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA LOCAL SCHENGEN COOPERATION (LSC) in SOUTH KOREA 2013-2014 REPORT 87 1. Introduction 17 April 2014 20 EU Member States (EUMS) out of 28 are present in the Republic of Korea. Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta and Slovenia cover Korea from their embassies located in Beijing or Tokyo. The agreements of representation in consular matters are as follows: - Austria represents Croatia and Malta, - Belgium represents Luxembourg, - Italy represents Slovenia - Poland represents Estonia, - Slovakia represents Latvia - the Embassy of Sweden in Seoul deals with the visa requests that are addressed to Denmark, Iceland and Norway, as part of the agreement of cooperation of the Nordic Council, - Switzerland represents Liechtenstein. Finland provided consular services to Estonian nationals in the past. Poland has done the same with nationals from Lithuania. In all cases that have been reported, the consulates do not use external staff for the reception of visa applications but benefit from local staff as part of their permanent staff. European communities in Korea are relatively small in volume and count for around 15,000 people. As elsewhere it is not easy to assess the exact number of expatriates in real-time given that consular registration is generally not mandatory. EUMS proceed with their consular work without any particular difficulty. The number of Europeans who are imprisoned in Korea is very low (less than ten people). The situation remained the same in April 2013-March 2014 compared with the year before. 2. LSC meetings held in 2013-2014 From April 2013 to March 2014, 4 formal coordination meetings were held, on 5 April, 11 October and 15 November 2013, and on 27 January 2014. In addition, the group visited the National Emergency Management Agency on 26 February 2014, which was also the occasion of informal discussions between members. 87 April 2013 – March 2014 12893/14 PR/lm 157 DG D 1 A EN
Coordination meetings are chaired by the local chair. The local chair is designated by common accord by the heads of delegation, during their routine meetings, at the end of semester. On the proposal of the EU Delegation in Korea, HoMs have sought so far to coordinate the local chair with the rotating Presidency of the Council of the EU, for convenience, visibility and in order to facilitate the action of the EU in Korea. Thus Ireland exercised the local chair until end of June 2013 and Greece from July 2013, in the absence of Lithuania (the group follows the provisions of the agreement of the EU Council that governs the rotating Presidency in the third countries where the rotating Presidency lacks diplomatic personnel). Meeting reports are prepared by the local chair. Participation in these meetings is satisfactory. Among the 20 EUMS that are present in Korea, around 15 participate in our meetings (including the EUMS that have not ratified the agreement and the non-EUMS that have ratified it). Even if some EUMS are more assiduous than others, there is no boycott. Switzerland and Norway attend meetings (Iceland and Liechtenstein do not have diplomatic representations in Korea). The EU Delegation in Korea supports the local chair in its coordination work. All meetings take place at the EU Delegation in Seoul. There is no need to conduct meetings outside Seoul. There was no change in our way of conducting the consular coordination work in April 2013/March 2014 compared with the previous year. 3. State of play 3.1 Application of the Visa Code EUMS are well-prepared and trained to conduct their tasks in the framework of consular cooperation under the Schengen Visa Code. The role of the EU Delegation in Korea is limited. The question of its preparation does not appear in the same terms as for the EUMS. It is not foreseen that the EU Delegation in Korea should chair consular coordination meetings. There is a consensus that the local chair does its coordination work in a satisfactory manner and that the state of play should not change. Some EUMS have relocated their visa processing (e.g.: the requests addressed to the consulate of the Netherlands in Seoul are dealt by the consulate of the Netherlands in Kuala Lumpur). 3.2 Assessment of the need to harmonise the lists of supporting documents A harmonization work has taken place in the past, which has resulted in a partial harmonisation. The meetings that were organized this year have not shown that it would be unnecessary to reinforce this harmonization, due to the low number of C type visas. 3.3 Exchange of information The coordination of the information related to the issue of visas is now made in Brussels. Statistics are then disseminated to all EUMS. We did not have to deal with the issue of medical travel insurance during the period. In case of fraud, EUMS communicate well with each other and exchange information and experience. 12893/14 PR/lm 158 DG D 1 A EN
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