Consular laissez-passers delivered by the Maghreb countries to Italy 2005-2006

Number of Consular Laissez-passers Delivered by each Maghreb Country to Italy, 2005

^{Source: Italian Ministry of the Interior. Data processed by MIREM}

Number of Consular Laissez-passers Delivered by each Maghreb Country to Italy, 2006

Note:

The data of the Italian Ministry of the Interior inform about the number of laissez-passers delivered by the Algerian Moroccan and Tunisian consular authorities to Italy in 2005 and 2006. At a bilateral level, Italy cooperates with these three Maghreb countries on the readmission of illegally staying persons. However, the bilateral cooperative modalities differ.

Actually, in the case of Algeria, a 2000 agreement related to the circulation of persons foresees, among others, the repatriation of the nationals of the contracting parties. In the case of Morocco and Tunisia, the bilateral cooperation with Italy is based respectively on a removal agreement dated July 1998 and an exchange of letters dated August 1998. In contrast with the Italian-Algerian agreement, the bilateral cooperation with Morocco and Tunisia is aimed not only at the removal of the nationals of the contracting parties, but also at the removal of third-country nationals.

The above graphs show that the number of laissez-passers requested by Italy increased from 2005 to 2006, whereas the delivery rate, which was already low, went down.