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70 of the Mobility Partnership with Georgia, in the end of 2009 Latvia implemented a project aimed to strengthen the institutional capacity of Georgia in matters of migration and population register, by organising a training visit for 5 officials of Georgia. Besides, in spring of 2010, the Border Guard of Latvia organised a training seminar about security of travel documents and detection of counterfeit documents, which was attended by representatives of the Border Guard of Georgia. Concurrently with the said activities, the State Border Guard in cooperation with FRONTEX agency is addressing the possibility of implementing a project in the field of border management, namely, to provide aid to establishment of the Cynology Service of the Border Guard of Georgia and its further development. On 11-14 October 2010, three leading officials of the Moldovan judicial system visited Latvia within the framework of the development cooperation project. The project aimed to provide support to the strengthening of the rule of law, democracy and administrative capacity of Moldova. During the visit for exchange of experience, the representatives of Moldova familiarised themselves with the work organisation of the Latvian judicial system institutions and met officials of the Supreme Court, the Riga Regional Court, the Court Administration, and the Latvian Judicial Training Centre. Moldova as the key current objective has set its integration to the European Union, thus the implementation of this project made a positive contribution to the course of reforms in Moldova. The project was implemented by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in cooperation with the Court Administration with Court Administration. It must be admitted that, due to the lack of funds for development cooperation projects in 2010, involvement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the field of development cooperation projects regarding migration has been limited. 169 On 21 December 2010 the Human Rights and Public Affairs Committee of the Saeima decided to make amendments in laws and regulations to make the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs of the Ministry of Interior responsible for decision making for granting of the politically repressed persons status in order to prevent ungrounded granting of the status and provide qualitative process for granting of the status. 170 169 Information provided by officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 170 Saeima komisija vienojas par politiski represētās personas statusa piešķiršanas centralizāciju. (Committee of the Saeima Agrees on Centralizing the Granting Procedure of Politically Repressed Person’s Status).// http://www.lv.lv/index.phpmenu=doc&sub=pr&id=223100 – [see: 17.01.2011.]
71 10. IMPLEMENTATION OF EUROPEAN UNION LEGISLATION Also in the year 2010, Saeima and the Cabinet of Ministers, within their competence, developed and adopted new regulatory enactments, as well as made amendments to the existing regulatory enactments by ensuring inclusion of specific European Union legal acts in national regulatory enactments. This section continues to describe the progress of implementation of those European Union legal acts in the Latvian legal system, the transposition of which was started or continues in the year 2010. Information about the process of transposition of European Union legal acts in legislation of Latvia that are issued in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009, is available in the policy reports on the migration and asylum situation in Latvia in reference years 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 which can be found and downloaded from the homepage of the EMN Latvian contact point. In 2010, 15 new legal acts were added to the collection of the European Union legal acts: 5 regulations and 10 decisions. From those, 2 in the field of asylum, 2 in the field of external orders, 3 in the field of visas, 1 in the field of immigration, 1 in the field of illegal immigration and return, and 4 in the field of Schengen. Same as in 2009, also in 2010 large in numbers transposition of legislation containing European Union legal acts was not performed in regulatory enactments of Latvia because contrary to the previous years, for only few European Union legal acts term of transposition was 2010. Following acts were transposed in 2010: ‣ Directive 2008/115/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals. The State Border Guard is the institution responsible for the adoption of Directive 2008/115/EC and has prepared Draft law "Amendment to the Immigration Law" as well as continues the work to develop the subordinate Regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers. 171 The 171 Information provided by officials of the State Border Guard.
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Page 35 and 36: 35 A minor third-country national o
Page 37 and 38: 37 In 2010, the Ministry of Justice
Page 39 and 40: 39 6) Latvian Language Agency imple
Page 41 and 42: 41 On 10 March 2010, Cabinet Regula
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Page 51 and 52: 51 In 2007-2009, a network of human
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Page 61 and 62: 61 Immigration Law for submission t
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Page 65 and 66: 65 voluntary participation, Latvia
Page 67 and 68: 67 of asylum seekers and improve th
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Page 73 and 74: 73 The concept developed by the Min
Page 75 and 76: 75 Cabinet of Ministers Regulation
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Page 81 and 82: 81 ‣ Executive summary to Cabinet
Page 83 and 84: 83 Literature: ‣ Apstiprina jaunu
Page 85 and 86: 85 ‣ Interesējas par darbaspēka
Page 87 and 88: 87 http://www.iem.gov.lv/lat/aktual
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