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Sri Lanka: Internal Flights Alternative : An Update

internal flight alternative

- clarify the conditions for the application of the concept of internal flight alternative i.e. the conditions under which it may be considered that an applicant for asylum has a genuine protection alternative in a certain part of his/her country of origin, taking into account recent developments in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights.

The abolition of border control at internal borders does not affect the possibility for a Member State to provide by law for an obligation to hold or carry papers and documents.

B. whereas criminal organisations have gradually extended their operating range on an international scale, exploiting the opportunities offered by the opening of the internal borders of the European Union, as well as economic globalisation and new technologies, and entering into alliances with criminal groups in other countries (examples being the South American drug cartels and Russian-speaking organised crime) in order to carve up markets and spheres of influence; whereas increasingly criminal groups are diversifying in their operations, with links growing between drug trafficking, the trafficking of human beings, the facilitation of ...[+++]illegal immigration, weapons trafficking, and money laundering;

80. Calls on the Commission to issue guidelines to ensure that the Schengen rules are correctly implemented by the Member States so that freedom of movement of persons is fully respected and any misuse or abuse of the possibility of reintroducing controls at the internal borders is avoided;