Delivering an area of freedom, security and justice for Europe's citizens
The Commission released its Action Plan Implementing the Stockholm Programme (COM 171/2010).
It is planning to present a legislative proposal amending Directive 2002/90/EC defining the facilitation of unauthorised entry, transit and residence in 2012, and a proposal for an immigration code, i.e. “the consolidation of legislation in the area of legal immigration taking into account the evaluation of the existing legislation, needs for simplification and where necessary extend the existing provisions to categories of workers currently not covered by EU legislation”, in 2013.