The colours of Tirana. Photo: flickr/lassi.kurkijarvi
This section lists all documents relevant for the visa liberalisation process of Albania. For a narrative of the process for all five Western Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia), please see "The road to visa-free travel".
ESI analysis
- The Council decision giving Albania and Bosnia visa-free travel (8 November 2010)
- The final sprint: Albania's and Bosnia's progress in reaching the open benchmarks (9 August 2010)
- ESI Scorecard for Albania and Bosnia: Meeting the roadmap conditions (26 April 2010)
- Albania's catching up (November 2009)
- ESI visa "grade report" (May/June 2009). Detailed analysis.
- Scorecard of progress (22 May 2009)
Visa facilitation and readmission agreements
- Agreement and on the facilitation of the issuance of visas (in force since 1 January 2008)
- Agreement on the readmission of persons residing without authorisation (in force since 1 January 2008 except for the agreement with Albania, which entered into force on 1 May 2006)
Visa roadmaps
- Visa liberalisation roadmap for Albania (presented to the government on 3 June 2008)
Readiness reports by the Albanian government
- First readiness report (no date – around August/September 2008)
- Update (12 January 2009)
- Commission letter (15 July 2009)
- Second readiness report (1 October 2009) and Summary
- Updated second readiness report (2 November 2009)
- Updated second readiness report (16 November 2009)
- Further measures, blocks 1 and 2 (29 January 2010)
- Summary of achievements (February 2010)
- Commission letter (following 6 May 2010 meeting)
- Report on remaining benchmarks (25 June 2010)
Progress assessments by the European Commission
- Assessment by the European Commission on the fulfilment of the open benchmarks by Albania and Bosnia (14 September 2010)
- Oral assessment by the European Commission of Albania's and Bosnia's progress in meeting the remaining open benchmarks (2 September 2010)
- Assessments by the European Commission of Albania (19 April 2010)
- Assessments by the European Commission of Albania (27 November 2009)
- Assessments by the European Commission (18 May 2009)
- Assessments by the European Commission (24 November 2008)
- ESI document: One-page overview of the Commission's findings
- ESI document: Report from the 24 November meeting with EU member state officials
Other documents
- Commission proposal on visa-free travel for Albania and Bosnia (27 May 2010)
- Commission letter to Albania (following 6 May 2010 meeting)
- Letter by the EP's LIBE Committee concerning visa-free travel for Albania and Bosnia (2 March 2010)
