Press Release: Commission draws up rules for access to work by third-country nationals and, at the same time, proposes a method to the Member States for eventually devising a common immigration policy

The European Commission adopted a proposal on 11 July 2001 for a Council Directive on conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals for the purposes of paid employment and self-employed economic activity. This is a fundamental legal and administrative tool for improving the management of migration flows, since it determines, for the first time, common criteria in all the Member States, a single procedure, which has been simplified and made transparent through the introduction of a single document (stay and residence), while establishing the rights of third-country nationals. At the same time, the Commission is proposing a mechanism for open cooperation which will introduce a method for monitoring the development of national immigration policies.

http://ec.europa.eu/comm/justice_home/unit/immigration_en.htm http://ec.europa.eu/comm/justice_home/unit/immigration_en.htm

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