Georgia european union visa. Mission of georgia in brussels european union the embassypage for georgias mission in brussels has updated contact details for the mission including address telephone number fax number and email address as well as information about the missions website and social media presence. The european commission submitted a legislative proposal on the visa liberalization for georgia to the european parliament. The rules in force regarding visa requirements are set out in regulation no 18062018.
The european union and georgias close relationship is based on the eu georgia association agreement including a deep and comprehensive free trade area dcfta which entered into force in july 2016 and strives for political association and economic integration. If georgia reintroduces the visa requirement for all citizens of the union the visa fee to be charged by georgia shall not exceed eur 35 or the amount agreed if the fee is reviewed in accordance with the procedure provided for in article 144. Ec gisco administrative boundaries ceurogeographics cun fao this map is for reference purposes only.
Georgia and the european union have maintained relations since 1996 in the inogate framework and in 2006 a five year action plan of rapprochement was implemented in the context of the european neighbourhood policy enp. A european union monitoring mission was sent to georgia in the wake of the 2008 south ossetia war. On 9 march 2016 the european commission presented a proposal to allow visa free travel to the schengen area for georgian citizens.
The european commission proposed on 9 march 2016 to allow visa free travel to the schengen area for georgian citizens holding a biometric passport. The designations employed and the presentation of material on this map do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the european union concerning the legal status of any. When member states cooperate with an external service provider an additional service may be charged.
This proposal builds on the successful implementation by georgia of all the benchmarks set in its visa liberalisation action plan. A more comprehensive association agreement entered into force on 1 july 2016. From 28 march georgian nationals with biometric passport can travel visa free to the 26 countries of the schengen area and stay for 90 days in any 180 day period.
995 32 236 43 64 delegation georgiaateeaseuropaeu. The negotiations on visa. It was assumed that visa free regime would be discussed for both countries as a package georgia and ukraine but the meps members of the european parliament decided to divide the two countries.
Georgian president giorgi margvelashvili who had called visa liberalization an enormous achievement at the time said during a meeting of the european union interior ministers on march 8 in brussels that tbilisi is ready to take more action and introduce new measures in order to preserve the visa free regime with the schengen area.