Detention of third-country nationals in return procedures
Annex
This Annex provides an overview of the most relevant domestic legislation relating to the subjects covered in this report.
Hyperlinks to the original language document or, where available, to English translations of the legislation are also
provided. To increase the readability of the report, references to national laws have been replaced by acronyms or short
names throughout, all of which are outlined in Table A1.
Table A1: National legislations – full references and short name, EU27
Country
Acronym /
Short name
Austria
-
2005 Aliens Police Act (in German – amendments up to BGBl I No. 135/2009 included)
Belgium
Law on
Foreigners
Loi du 15 décembre 1980 sur l’accès au territoire, le séjour, l’établissement et l’éloignement des étrangers
Bulgaria
Law on
Foreigners
Foreigners in the Republic of Bulgaria Act of 5 July 1999 (in Bulgarian)
Cyprus
Aliens Act
Aliens and Immigration Act, 2001
Czech
Republic
FORA
Act No. 326/1999 Coll. on the Residence of Foreign Nationals in the Territory of the Czech Republic last
amended by judgement of the Constitutional Court promulgated under No. 47/2009 Coll.
(unofficial English translation)
Denmark
Aliens Act
Aliens (Consolidation) Act No. 785 of 10 August 2009 (English translation)
Estonia
OLPEA
Obligation to Leave and Prohibition on Entry Act 21 October 1998 (unofficial translation with amendments
up to 9 June 2004 included)
Finland
-
Aliens Act (301/2004) (unofficial English translation – amendments up to 1426/2009 included)
France
CESEDA
Code de l’entrée et du séjour des étrangers et du droit d’asile (in French – amendments up to 11 March 2010
included)
Germany
Residence
Act
Residence Act of 30 July 2004 (Federal Law Gazette I, p. 1950) as promulgated on 25 February 2008 (Federal
Law Gazette I, p. 162) (in German – Amendments up to 30 July 2009 (BGBl. I S. 2437) included
Greece
TCN Act
Codification of legislation on entry, residence and social integration of third-country nationals on Greek
territory, Law 3386/2005 (Government Gazette-GG A 212), (unofficial English translation at http://www.
mfa.gr/softlib/Aliens%20Law%20Grk%20(N3386%20-%202005)%20(EN)%20Codification%202009.09.pdf –
amendments up to 3801/2009 (GG Α 163) included)
Hungary
TCN Act
Act II of 2007 on the Admission and Right of Residence of Third-Country Nationals (unofficial English translation)
Italy
LD 1998/286
Decreto Legislativo, 25 luglio 1998, n. 286 (in Italian – amendments up to law of 15 July 2009, No. 94)
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