The Committee on Civil Liberties and Home Affairs (LIBE) votes on a new law that adds the UK to the list of countries whose nationals do not need a visa to enter the EU in the European Parliament in Brussels. It will be applicable once the UK becomes a non-EU country and if EU citizens travelling to the UK are also exempt from visa requirements.

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MORAES, Claude (S&D, UK)

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Visa waiver for UK nationals: extracts from the vote and statement by Claude MORAES (S&D, UK), rapporteur

General views in the meeting room, atmosphere ahead of the meeting (2 shots).

e-Vote results 53 voters, 53 in favour, adopted.

e-Vote for the negotiating mandate 52 voters; 50 in favour; 2 abstentions.

SOUNDBITE (English), MORAES Claude (S&amp;D, UK), rapporteur,, We amended the Council regulation 539/2001 listing the third countries whose nationals must be in possession of visas when crossing the external borders and those nationals are exempt from that requirement, as regards the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU. So this is a visa waiver proposal for the UK following its departure from the EU.

SOUNDBITE (English), Claude MORAES (S&amp;D, UK), This will allow the British citizens a visa waiver for their entry to the EU, following the departure of the UK from the EU.

SOUNDBITE (English), Claude MORAES (S&amp;D, UK), And it will be a reciprocal situation for the EU nationals to go to the UK.