.The EU Council approved the updated Schengen border code.
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According to global times news agency Europe,The EU Council approved the new Schengen Borders Code, which regulates the management of internal and external borders, as well as the border control of persons. The new reform will play an important role in increasing the resilience of the Schengen zone to current and future crises at its external borders.The global times Europe media reports that thanks to the regulation approved by the EU Council, it allows the adoption of pan-European measures limiting the access of third-country nationals to the European Union in the event of a large-scale emergency in the field of public health.In addition, the regulation introduces a procedure that will "enable the fight against the repeated crossing of migrants from one member state to another.Within the framework of the new code, the control distance at the internal borders of the EU may remain in force for a period of two years, in exceptional cases for 2.5 years.The decision of the EU Council enters into force after its publication in the "Official Journal” of the European Union.
