The Ministry of the Interior has opened e-consultations on proposed amendments to the Ordinance on the Treatment of Third-Country Nationals, with the consultation period open until 5 June 2025. These amendments are based on the Act on Amendments to the Act on Foreigners (Official Gazette No. 40/25), which entered into force on 16 March 2025 incorporating Regulation (EU) 2024/1717 (Recast Schengen Borders Code).
In accordance with Article 95 of the amended Act, the Minister of the Interior is required to align the existing Ordinance on the Treatment of Third-Country Nationals (Official Gazette Nos. 136/21 and 145/23) with the new legislative provisions within six months of the Act’s entry into force.
The proposed amendments will modify Articles 1 (forms, including decisions on refusal of entry, travel documents for return procedures, return orders, short stay certificates, expulsion decisions), 2 (list of regulations), 14 (return orders), 16 (subsidiary protection residence permit and temporary residence certificates), 33 and 33(a) (Transfer of third-country nationals found in the border area of the internal border), 55(a) (forms rejecting requests for rectification or erasure of data registered in ETIAS and EES), of the Ordinance.