Visas: Council implementing powers for examining visa applications, instrument Vision. Initiative Finland

ACT: Council Decision 2006/684/EC amending Annex 2, Schedule A, to the Common Consular Instructions on the visa requirements for holders of Indonesian diplomatic and service passports.

CONTENT: Annex 2, Schedule A, to the Common Consular Instructions (CCI) contains the list of countries whose nationals are not subject to a visa requirement in one or more Schengen States when they are holders of diplomatic, official or service passports, but who are subject to this requirement when they are holders of ordinary passports.

Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands wish to exempt holders of Indonesian diplomatic and service passports from visa requirements. The Common Consular Instructions should therefore be amended accordingly.

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 1 November 2006.