Visa Code, Regulation (EC) No 810/2009

Procedures and conditions for issuing short-stay Schengen visas.

What we read it for

Processing times, fees, refusals and appeals on the visa pages.

Identity

58 articles in the base act

Structure

The chapter structure of this act is not read into the register yet. The official text carries it.

Articles

58 articles are read into the register, one address each.

• 1 · Objective and scope
• 2 · Definitions
• 3 · Third-country nationals required to hold an airport transit visa
• 4 · Authorities competent for taking part in the procedures relating to applications
• 5 · Member State competent for examining and deciding on an application
• 6 · Consular territorial competence
• 7 · Competence to issue visas to third-country nationals legally present within the territory of a Member State
• 8 · Representation arrangements
• 9 · Practical modalities for lodging an application
• 10 · General rules for lodging an application
• 11 · Application form
• 12 · Travel document
• 13 · Biometric identifiers
• 14 · Supporting documents
• 15 · Travel medical insurance
• 16 · Visa fee
• 17 · Service fee
• 18 · Verification of consular competence
• 19 · Admissibility
• 20 · Stamp indicating that an application is admissible
• 21 · Verification of entry conditions and risk assessment
• 22 · Prior consultation of central authorities of other Member States
• 23 · Decision on the application
• 24 · Issuing of a uniform visa
• 25 · Issuing of a visa with limited territorial validity
• 26 · Issuing of an airport transit visa
• 27 · Filling in the visa sticker
• 28 · Invalidation of a completed visa sticker
• 29 · Affixing a visa sticker
• 30 · Rights derived from an issued visa
• 31 · Information of central authorities of other Member States
• 32 · Refusal of a visa
• 33 · Extension
• 34 · Annulment and revocation
• 35 · Visas applied for at the external border
• 36 · Visas issued to seafarers in transit at the external border
• 37 · Organisation of visa sections
• 38 · Resources for examining applications and monitoring of consulates
• 39 · Conduct of staff
• 40 · Forms of cooperation
• 41 · Cooperation between Member States
• 42 · Recourse to honorary consuls
• 43 · Cooperation with external service providers
• 44 · Encryption and secure transfer of data
• 45 · Member States’ cooperation with commercial intermediaries
• 46 · Compilation of statistics
• 47 · Information to the general public
• 48 · Local Schengen cooperation between Member States’ consulates
• 49 · Arrangements in relation to the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games
• 50 · Amendments to the Annexes
• 51 · Instructions on the practical application of the Visa Code
• 52 · Committee procedure
• 53 · Notification
• 54 · Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 767/2008
• 55 · Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 562/2006
• 56 · Repeals
• 57 · Monitoring and evaluation
• 58 · Entry into force

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