THE CONCEPT OF THE EU READMISSON AGREEMENTS IN EU LAW Sample Clauses

THE CONCEPT OF THE EU READMISSON AGREEMENTS IN EU LAW. The purport of readmission signifies the one’s admittance once again in a process or to a place or organization.1 In order to understand the concept of Readmission Agreements, it is important to make reference to their content in the first place. These agreements categorize the persons to be readmitted in terms of ‘third country nationals’, ‘stateless persons’ and ‘own nationals’ of the Contracting Parties. A broader categorization is admissible for ‘refugees’ and ‘ex-citizens’ depending the requirements of the Readmission Agreement or relevant legal measure.2 The person concerned is subject to return either to its country of origin or to the country where they have entered or transited through, or in some cases to a third safe country. The return operation of the person concerned must comply with the provisions set out in the Readmission Agreements. These provisions put forward the administrative dimension of the readmission operations to apply properly and lawfully, and certain conditions for both Contracting Parties to acquiesce. Indeed, the Readmission Agreements are international agreements, ad hoc materialize its application which derive from the dynamics of the relevant international relations. The milestone of readmission procedures goes back to the 19th century in Europe. But, a dominant structure of the immigration discourse after the politicization of migration issues in the 1980’s had been redrawn in the 1990’s within a new structuring road in the Europe. Since the early 2000’s, the concept of migration and asylum management has been in the heart of European Union (EU) external policies. The abolishment of the national borders within the EU boundaries was modulated under the Schengen Acquis when the Treaty of Amsterdam took effect in 1999, combining its legal basis and 1 Oxford English Dictionary, available at: xxxxx://xxx.xxxxxx.xxx/en/definition/readmission (last accessed on 25 May 2019) 2 Xxxxxxx, Xxxx, “European readmission policy: Third Country Interests and Refugee Rights”, Leiden, 2009. page 28-29. application in accordance with EU Law. The authorization of the free movement of the persons in the EU gave a rank above to the Readmission Agreements’ position on the external level in more prominent ways.3 This chapter gives the notion and the description of the European Union Readmission Agreements (EURAs), explaining the legal basis and juridical structure of the Agreements and argues EU’s competence level in the EURAs.