Fees (Schengen Visas) (Amendment) Regulations, 2010

L.N. 121 of 2010

FEES ORDINANCE

(CAP. 35)

Fees (Schengen Visas) (Amendment) Regulations, 2010

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 2 of the Fees

Ordinance, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign

Affairs, with the concurrence of the Minister of Finance, the

Economy and Investment has made the following regulations

(1) The title of these regulations is the Fees (Schengen

Visas) (Amendment) Regulations, 2010 and they shall be read and

construed as one with the Fees (Schengen Visas) Regulations, 2007

hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”

(2) These regulations transpose Regulation (EC) No

810/2009 of the European Parliament and the Council of 13 July

2009. (3) These regulations shall come into force on the 5th

April 2010.

In regulation 4 of the principal regulations, immediately

after paragraph (d) thereof, there shall be added the following new

paragraph

“(e) representatives of non-profit organisations, aged

25 years or less, participating in seminars, conferences,

sports, cultural or educational events organised by non-profit

making organisations:.

Provided that a non-profit making organisation shall be

construed in terms of the definition “non-profit making” in article 2

of the Voluntary Organisations Act.”.

The Schedule to the principal regulation shall be Substitute the

substituted as follows

B

“SCHEDULE

(Regulation 2)

For the granting of a Schengen visa -

a) Airport Transit Visa (Category A)

€ 60

b)

Short-Stay Visa (Category C)

€ 60

c) Visa with Limited Territorial Validity

€ 60

(Category C)

d)

National Long-Stay Visa (Category D)

€ 60”

€0.19