TITLE IV

Annexes III, IV and VIII shall be amended in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 33(2). The Commission shall be assisted by a committee, hereinafter ‘the Committee’. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Articles 5 and 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof and provided that the implementing measures adopted in accordance with this procedure do not modify the essential provisions of this Regulation. The period laid down in Article 5(6) of Decision 1999/468/EC shall be set at three months. The Committee shall adopt its rules of procedure. Without prejudice to the implementing measures already adopted, the application of the provisions of this Regulation concerning the adoption of technical rules and decisions in accordance with the procedure referred in paragraph 2 shall be suspended four years after the entry into force of this Regulation. On a proposal from the Commission, the European Parliament and the Council may renew the provisions concerned in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty and, to that end, shall review them prior to the expiry of the four-year period. Member States shall notify the Commission of: the list of residence permits; the list of their border crossing points; the reference amounts required for the crossing of their external borders fixed annually by the national authorities; the list of national services responsible for border control; the specimen of model cards issued by Foreign Ministries. The Commission shall make the information notified in conformity with paragraph 1 available to the Member States and the public through publication in the Official Journal of the European Union, C Series, and by any other appropriate means. This Regulation shall be without prejudice to Community rules on local border traffic and to existing bilateral agreements on local border traffic. The provisions of this Regulation shall not affect the special rules applying to the cities of Ceuta and Melilla, as defined in 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 1985 OJ L 239, 22.9.2000, p. 73. . By 26 October 2006, the Member States shall notify the Commission of national provisions relating to Article 21(c) and (d), the penalties as referred to in Article 4(3) and the bilateral arrangements concluded in accordance with Article 17(1). Subsequent changes to those provisions shall be notified within five working days. The information notified by the Member States shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union, C Series. The Commission shall submit to the European Parliament and the Council by 13 October 2009 a report on the application of Title III. The Commission shall pay particular attention to any difficulties arising from the reintroduction of border control at internal borders. Where appropriate, it shall present proposals aimed at resolving such difficulties. Articles 2 to 8 of the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 shall be repealed with effect from 13 October 2006. The following shall be repealed with effect from the date referred to in paragraph 1: the Common Manual, including its annexes; the decisions of the Schengen Executive Committee of 26 April 1994 (SCH/Com-ex (94) 1, rev 2), 22 December 1994 (SCH/Com-ex (94)17, rev. 4) and 20 December 1995 (SCH/Com-ex (95) 20, rev. 2); Annex 7 to the Common Consular Instructions; Council Regulation (EC) No 790/2001 of 24 April 2001 reserving to the Council implementing powers with regard to certain detailed provisions and practical procedures for carrying out border checks and surveillance OJ L 116, 26.4.2001, p. 5. Regulation amended by Decision 2004/927/EC (OJ L 396, 31.12.2004, p. 45). ; Council Decision 2004/581/EC of 29 April 2004 determining the minimum indications to be used on signs at external border crossing points OJ L 261, 6.8.2004, p. 119. ; Council Decision 2004/574/EC of 29 April 2004 amending the Common Manual OJ L 261, 6.8.2004, p. 36. ; Council Regulation (EC) No 2133/2004 of 13 December 2004 on the requirement for the competent authorities of the Member States to stamp systematically the travel documents of third country nationals when they cross the external borders of the Member States and amending the provisions of the Convention implementing the Schengen agreement and the Common Manual to this end OJ L 369, 16.12.2004, p. 5. . References to the Articles deleted and instruments repealed shall be construed as references to this Regulation. This Regulation shall enter into force on 13 October 2006. However, Article 34 shall enter into force on the day after its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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