MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the recent hybrid attacks and instrumentalisation of migrants in Ceuta and the need for a coordinated response to protect the EU’s external borders

Tabled by Ana Catarina Mendes

Added: 10a. Recalls that, under Article 41 of the Schengen Borders Code and the declaration by the Kingdom of Spain on the cities of Ceuta and Melilla in the Final Act to the Agreement on the Accession of the Kingdom of Spain to the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 19851a, specific rules apply in respect of Ceuta and Melilla, meaning that those arriving irregularly in Ceuta cannot travel freely onwards to the Spanish mainland or to other EU Member States or Schengen associated countries; --------------------------------- 1a The Schengen acquis – Agreement on the Accession of the Kingdom of Spain to the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 between the Governments of the States of the Benelux Economic Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders signed at Schengen on 19 June 1990, to which the Italian Republic acceded by the Agreement signed at Paris on 27 November 1990 (OJ L 239, 22.9.2000, p. 69, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/agree_internation/2000/922(3)/oj).

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE788.264