EUROPA - EU law and publications - EUR-Lex - EUR-Lex - 32007D0340 - EN - 2007/340/EC: Council Decision of 19 April 2007 on the conclusion of the Agreement between the European Community and the Russian Federation on the facilitation of issuance of short-stay visas // COUNCIL DECISION // (2007/340/EC) // AGREEMENT // between the European Community and the Russian Federation on the facilitation of the issuance of visas to the citizens of the European Union and the Russian Federation // Joint Declaration on Article 6(2) of the Agreement on fees for processing visa applications // Joint Declaration on Article 11 of the Agreement on diplomati ...[+++]c passports // Joint Declaration on issuance of short-stay visas for visits to military and civil burial grounds // Joint Declaration on the harmonisation of information on procedures for issuing short stay visa and documents to be submitted when applying for short stay visas // Joint Declaration concerning the Kingdom of Denmark // Joint Declaration concerning the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Ireland // Joint Declaration concerning the Republic of Iceland and the Kingdom of Norway // PROTOCOL // to the Agreement on the Member States that do not fully apply the Schengen - acquis

In order to ensure that medical certificates genuinely reflect seafarers’ state of health, in light of the duties they are to perform, the competent authority shall, after consultation with the shipowners’ and seafarers’ organisations concerned, and giving due consideration to applicable international guidelines, prescribe the nature of the medical examination and certificate.

1. A host Member State may require of specialised doctors whose part-time specialist medical training was governed by legislative, regulatory and administrative provisions in force as of 20 June 1975 and who began their specialist training no later than 31 December 1983 that their evidence of formal qualifications be accompanied by a certificate stating that they have been effectively and lawfully engaged in the relevant activities for at least three consecutive years during the five years preceding the award of that certificate.

Every Member State which applies relevant legislative, regulatory or administrative provisions shall accept as sufficient proof evidence of formal qualifications as a specialised doctor issued by other Member States which correspond, for the specialist training in question, to the titles listed in Annex VI, point 6.1, insofar as they attest a course of training which began before the reference date referred to in Annex V, point 5.1.2 and are accompanied by a certificate stating that the holders have been effectively and lawfully engaged in the activities in question for at least three consecutive years during the five years preceding the ...[+++] award of the certificate.

3. In order to ascertain whether the person concerned represents a danger for public policy or public security, when issuing the registration certificate or, in the absence of a registration system, not later than three months from the date of arrival of the person concerned on its territory or from the date of reporting his/her presence within the territory, as provided for in Article 5(5), or when issuing the residence card, the host Member State may, should it consider this essential, request the Member State of origin and, if need be, other Member States to provide information concerning any previous police record the person concerne ...[+++]d may have.

When issuing the International Tonnage Certificate (1969) for a segregated ballast oil tanker, which has been measured in accordance with the rules of the International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships, 1969, the competent body shall insert, for the purpose of this Regulation, under the heading 'Remarks' a statement conforming to paragraph 3 of Annex I to this Regulation and specifying: