Croatia 1 July apply for Schengen: The border with Bosnia and Herzegovina will be monitored by helicopters and boats

Today the government on Tuesday accepted a proposal that Croatia should begin evaluation for entry into Schengen. Croatia to join the Schengen be applied first of July this year, which is a European policy on the right to request to join after two years of membership, reported the correspondent Anadolu Agency (AA).

"After the application starts for the first time Croatian evaluation process that pass all member states of the Schengen again every five years. The date of registration Croatia will not be ready to join the Schengen, but the evaluation process will take about a year, year and a half as the period within which the be time for additional preparation, "said Minister of the Interior Ranko Ostojic.

The European Union Croatia has made available 120 million intended to improve standards in the supervision and control of future external borders and must be redeemed by July 2016.

Minister of the Interior Ranko Ostojic announced that the funds would be used in technical equipment, and in the education of the Ministry of Interior and officials of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA).
"Croatia has a large external borders, only with B & H has over 1,010.9 kilometers of border," said Ostojic.

Croatia will monitor the external boundary from the air by helicopters, followed by a boat on the Danube, Sava and Una, and the state border with Serbia will be placed additional poles with surveillance cameras.

Each object floating at sea must be visually identified to the extent that is a must see inscription, ie. The name and designation of the vessel.

Radars and long-range cameras will be placed at the southern maritime border towards the Strait of Otranto, and the border with Italy will become part of the Schengen area and thus will not require increased supervision.

Ostojic said that realization only technical preconditions will not mean Croatian accession to Schengen, but it is necessary to regulate border management, visas, migration and asylum, edit the police and security, the Schengen Information System, customs cooperation, personal data protection, judicial cooperation and a number of other elements the application of the Schengen acquis.

Minister Ostojic said the Croatian accession to the Schengen zone allow unhindered movement of Croatian citizens throughout the Schengen Area and Croatia to open for people from these countries.
  • 5 Mar, 2015
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