Division 2 41999 D 0013: the definitive version of the Common Consular Instructions (SCH/Com-ex (99)) 13 (OJ L 239, 22.9.2000, p. 317), as adopted by Decision of the Executive Committee of 28 April 1999, have since been amended by the acts listed below. A revised version of the Common Consular Instructions containing those amendments and including other amendments made pursuant to the provisions of Council Regulation (EC) No 789/2001 of 24 April 2001 (OJ L 116, 26.4.2001, p. 2), has been published in OJ C 326, 22.12.2005, p. 1.

• 32001 D 0329: Council Decision 2001/329/EC of 24.4.2001 (OJ L 116, 26.4.2001, p. 32),

• 32001 D 0420: Council Decision 2001/420/EC of 28.5.2001 (OJ L 150, 6.6.2001, p. 47),

• 32001 R 0539: Council Regulation (EC) No 539/2001 of 15.3.2001 (OJ L 81, 21.3.2001, p. 1),

• 32001 R 1091: Council Regulation (EC) No 1091/2001 of 28.5.2001 (OJ L 150, 6.6.2001, p. 4),

• 32001 R 2414: Council Regulation (EC) No 2414/2001 of 7.12.2001 (OJ L 327, 12.12.2001, p. 1),

• 32002 D 0044: Council Decision 2002/44/EC of 20.12.2001 (OJ L 20, 23.1.2002, p. 5),

• 32002 R 0334: Council Regulation (EC) No 334/2002 of 18.2.2002 (OJ L 53, 23.2.2002, p. 7),

• 32002 D 0352: Council Decision 2002/352/EC of 25.4.2002 (OJ L 123, 9.5.2002, p. 47),

• 32002 D 0354: Council Decision 2002/354/EC of 25.4.2002 (OJ L 123, 9.5.2002, p. 50),

• 32002 D 0585: Council Decision 2002/585/EC of 12.7.2002 (OJ L 187, 16.7.2002, p. 44),

• 32002 D 0586: Council Decision 2002/586/EC of 12.7.2002 (OJ L 187, 16.7.2002, p. 48),

• 32002 D 0587: Council Decision 2002/587/EC of 12.7.2002 (OJ L 187, 16.7.2002, p. 50),

• 32003 R 0693: Council Regulation (EC) No 693/2003 of 14.4.2003 (OJ L 99, 17.4.2003, p. 8),

• 12003 T: Act concerning the conditions of accession and the adjustments to the Treaties-Accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic (OJ L 236, 23.9.2003, p. 33),

• 32003 D 0454: Council Decision 2003/454/EC of 13.6.2003 (OJ L 152, 20.6.2003, p. 82),

• 32003 D 0585: Council Decision 2003/585/EC of 28.7.2003 (OJ L 198, 6.8.2003, p. 13),

• 32003 D 0586: Council Decision 2003/586/EC of 28.7.2003 (OJ L 198, 6.8.2003, p. 15),

• 32004 D 0014: Council Decision 2004/14/EC of 22.12.2003 (OJ L 5, 9.1.2004, p. 74),

• 32004 D 0015: Council Decision 2004/15/EC of 22.12.2003 (OJ L 5, 9.1.2004, p. 76),

• 32004 D 0016: Council Decision 2004/16/EC of 22.12.2003 (OJ L 5, 9.1.2004, p. 78),

• 32004 D 0017: Council Decision 2004/17/EC of 22.12.2003 (OJ L 5, 9.1.2004, p. 79),

• 32006 D 0440: Council Decision 2006/440/EC of 1.6.2006 (OJ L 175, 29.6.2006, p. 77).

The following adaptations are made to the Common Consular Instructions:

1. (a)

   In Annex 1, part II, the following entries are deleted:

   ‘BULGARIA’,

   ‘ROMANIA’.

2. (b)

   In Annex 2, the following entry is deleted from Schedule A:

   ‘Romania’.

3. (c)

   In Annex 2, the following entries are inserted in Schedule A:

   Holders of diplomatic and/or service passports who are accredited as members of the diplomatic or consular staff in the territory of Bulgaria shall be subject to visa requirements for their first entry, but shall be exempt from these requirements during the remainder of their assignment.
   Holders of diplomatic and/or service passports who are not accredited as members of the diplomatic or consular staff in the territory of Bulgaria shall be exempt from visa requirement for a maximum period of thirty (30) days.’
   	‘BG	RO
   Albania	DSf1	D
   Algeria		D
   Angola
   Antigua and Barbuda
   Armenia	D	DS
   Azerbaijan	DS	DS
   Bahamas
   Barbados
   Belarus		DS
   Benin
   Bosnia and Herzegovina	DS	DS
   Botswana
   Burkina Faso
   Cambodia
   Cape Verde
   Central Africa		DS
   Chad
   People's Republic of China	DSf2	DS
   Colombia		DS
   Congo		DS
   Côte d'Ivoire
   Cuba
   Dominica
   Dominican Republic
   Ecuador
   Egypt
   Fiji
   Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	DS	DS
   Gabon
   Gambia
   Ghana		DS
   Guinea		DS
   Guyana
   Georgia	D	DS
   India
   Iran	DS	D
   Jamaica
   Jordan		D
   Kazakhstan		DS
   Kenya
   Kuwait
   Kyrgyzstan		DS
   Laos
   Lesotho
   Malawi
   Maldives
   Morocco	DS	DS
   Mauritania		DS
   Moldova	DS	DS
   Mongolia	DS	DS
   Mozambique
   Namibia
   Niger
   North Korea	DS
   Pakistan		DS
   Peru	DS	DS
   Philippines		DS
   Russian Federation	DS	DS
   Samoa
   São Tomé and Príncipe		DS
   Senegal		DS
   Serbia and Montenegro	DS
   Seychelles
   Sierra Leone		DS
   South Africa	DS	DS
   Swaziland
   Tajikistan		DS
   Tanzania		DS
   Thailand		DS
   Togo
   Trinidad and Tobago
   Tunisia		DS
   Turkey	DS	DS
   Turkmenistan		DS
   Uganda
   Ukraine	DS	DS
   Uzbekistan		D
   Vietnam	DS	DS
   Yemen
   Zambia		D
   Zimbabwe

4. (d)

   In Annex 2, the following entries are inserted in Schedule B:

   ‘

   	BG	RO
   Australia	X
   Chile
   Israel
   Mexico
   United States of America	X

   ’

5. (e)

   In Part I of Annex 3, the footnote relating to Iran is replaced by the following:

   ‘For Bulgaria, Germany and Cyprus:

   • the following persons shall be exempt from the ATV requirement:

     • holders of diplomatic and service passports.

   For Poland:

   • the following persons shall be exempt from the ATV requirement:

     • holders of diplomatic passports.’

6. (f)

   In Part II of Annex 3, the following entries are inserted in the list:

   ‘

   	BG	RO
   Albania
   Angola	X
   Armenia
   Azerbaijan
   Burkina Faso
   Cameroon
   Congo
   Côte d'Ivoire
   Cuba
   Egypt
   Ethiopia		X
   Gambia
   Guinea
   Guinea Bissau
   Haiti
   India		X
   Jordan
   Lebanon
   Liberia	X
   Libya
   Mali
   North Korea
   Northern Marianas
   Philippines
   Rwanda
   Senegal
   Sierra Leone
   Sudan	X
   Syria
   Togo
   Turkey
   Vietnam

   ’

7. (g)

   In Annex 7, the following is inserted between the entries for Belgium and the Czech Republic:

   ‘BULGARIA

   According to the Aliens Act and its implementing Regulation, an alien wishing to enter for a short-term stay or to transit through the Republic of Bulgaria shall provide proof of possession of:

   • sufficient financial means for daily subsistence in the Republic of Bulgaria — a minimum amount of 50 BGN per day or its equivalent in other currency;

   • sufficient financial means for departure from the Republic of Bulgaria;

   in cash, non-cash means of payment (e.g. credit card, cheque, etc.), tourist voucher or other credible proof.’

   and, between the entries for Portugal and Slovenia:

   ‘ROMANIA

   Government Emergency Ordinance No. 194/2002 on the Regime of Aliens in Romania contains the following relevant provisions:

   Article 6

   Entry on the Romanian territory may be permitted to aliens complying with the following conditions:

   […]

   1. (c)

      they shall present, under the restrictions of this Emergency Ordinance, the documents that justify the purpose and conditions of their stay and which prove the existence of appropriate means both for their support during the interval of their stay, and for the return to the state of origin or for the transit to another state where there is the certainty that they shall be allowed to enter;

   […].

   Article 29(2)

   Cash in convertible currency, travellers cheques, cheque books over a foreign exchange bank account, credit cards with a statement of account dated no more than 2 days before the request of visa or any other method proving the existence of adequate financial resources may be accepted as a proof of financial means

   Article 35

   For obtaining the short-term visa at the Romanian diplomatic missions and consular offices, besides other conditions stipulated by law, aliens shall present proof of financial means of an amount of EUR 100/day or the equivalent value in convertible currency for the entire period of stay.

   The fulfilment of this condition is required for the following types of short-term visa:

   • Tourism;

   • Visit;

   • Business;

   • Cultural, scientific, humanitarian activities, short-term medical treatment or other activities which do not infringe Romanian legislation.’’

8. (h)

   In the Annex to Annex 8, point 3 is replaced by the following:

   ‘3.

   The logo consisting of a letter or letters indicating the issuing Member State (or “BNL” in the case of the Benelux countries, namely Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands) with a latent image effect shall appear in this space. This logo shall appear light when held flat and dark when turned by 90°. The following logos shall be used: A for Austria, BG for Bulgaria, BNL for Benelux, CY for Cyprus, CZE for the Czech Republic, D for Germany, DK for Denmark, E for Spain, EST for Estonia, F for France, FIN for Finland, GR for Greece, H for Hungary, I for Italy, IRL for Ireland, LT for Lithuania, LVA for Latvia, M for Malta, P for Portugal, PL for Poland, ROU for Romania, S for Sweden, SK for Slovakia, SVN for Slovenia, UK for the United Kingdom.’.