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Malta - Justice and Home Affairs
Short-term priorities:
Assessment (November 2001)
With regard to asylum policy, Malta has announced that it will lift the geographical reservation to the Geneva Convention on Refugees. Maltese legislation is now aligned with the Union acquis. The Council of Europe agreement on the trafficking of drugs by sea has been signed and the services responsible for the fight against drugs have been strengthened. Thus priorities have been acted on to a large extent.
Evaluation (October 2002)
Malta has continued its efforts to implement the law on refugees and to bring its laws on immigration into line with the Community acquis.
Assessment (November 2003)
Please refer to the fact sheets on the adoption of the Community acquis.
Medium-term objectives:
Assessment (November 2001)
No progress has been made on legislation relating to justice and home affairs.
Evaluation (October 2002)
Malta has adopted and begun to implement a timetable for bringing policy and practices relating to visas into line with the acquis.
Assessment (November 2003)
Please refer to the fact sheets on the adoption of the Community acquis.
Following the signing of the Accession Treaty on 16 April 2003, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia acceded to the European Union on 1 May 2004.
REFERENCES
Decision 2000/249/EC of 20.03.2000Official Journal L 78, 29.03.2000
Commission Report COM(2001) 700 final - SEC(2001) 1751Not published in the Official Journal
Commission Report COM(2002)700 final - SEC(2002) 1407Not published in the Official Journal
Commission Report COM(2003) 675 final - SEC(2003) 1206Not published in the Official Journal
Treaty of Accession to the European Union [Official Journal L 236, 23.09.2003]
Last updated: 19.11.2004