Consular Protection of EU Citizens in Third States: Variety is Delighting?

Csatlós, Erzsébet (2019) Consular Protection of EU Citizens in Third States: Variety is Delighting? In: Recent Challenges of Public Administration 3 : papers presented at the conference of '3rd Contemporary issues of public administration' on 26th September 2018. Lectiones Iuridicae, 23 . Iurisperitus Kiadó, Szeged, pp. 157-183. ISBN 9786155411809

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Abstract

Consular protection of European Union (EU) citizens in Third States is a right inherent to the citizenship status. Since the entry into force of the Maastricht Treaty, Member States are required to guarantee the same level of protection to non-national, unrepresented EU citizens as they would do to their own nationals in certain qualified situations although the measures are not harmonised. It is due to the domestic nature of consular protection regulation, although a simple common format without any details was established to replace travel documents to facilitate thus the effective protection. Meanwhile, during its practice of 20 years, it has been proven that an additional harmonisation is needed with detailed rules on cooperation of authorities and exact provisions on an EU type of travels document. Therefore, a Council directive proposal was submitted on 31 May 2018 to achieve this aim which, in case of adoption, may be a step forward a unified concept of EU citizenship towards third States and strengthen the same level of serving the interests of citizens and it would also be milestone in administrative cooperation to ensure good administration of consular protection.

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