News archive - EU Scientific Visa To Be Introduced to Facilitate S&T Cooperation
Germany has become only the fourth country to transpose the EU law on scientific visas into national law, following Austria, Slovakia and Slovenia. The deadline for the transposition of the regulation into national law is October 2007, but it now seems unlikely that all EU Member States will have undertaken the necessary measures by this date.
The amendments to immigration laws are going to make it easier for third country researchers to live and work in the European Union.
The decision allowing researchers from third countries to work in the Union was agreed by the Justice and Home Affairs Council in the summer of 2004. At the time, the Commission welcomed the decision, but was disappointed that the instrument approved by the Commission was not as far-reaching as the original proposal. The Commission would have liked to see more provisions for researchers' families, as splitting families acts as a deterrent to mobility.
The Commission has also hoped for an agreement on a timeframe within which Member States should provide residence permits requested by third country researchers.
The new policy will lessen the bureaucratic requirements that individual researchers need for residency and employment permission.
Entry created by Elke Dall on April 1, 2007
Modified on April 5, 2007
