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Russia and the EU agreed that the tour will be much easier to get visas. The visa facilitation agreements between Russia and the EU entered into force on June 1 turned out that in practice the procedure for entry into Europe has become easier for a small number of people. The majority - ordinary tourists - faces additional challenges, including financial. On 1 June the Russians promises to simplify the procedure for entry into Europe - this day in force, entered into the agreement between the Russian Federation and the European Community on visa facilitation of the Russian Federation and the EU. Since early June, the cost of a standard visa is 35 €, in the case of temporary registration - 70 €. The duration of the program may not exceed 10 calendar days from the filing date. The new visa procedure does not apply to ordinary Russian tourists, but only in the number of categories. In the simplified scheme to issue visas to members of official delegations, businessmen, international transport of passengers and drivers, science and culture, students, journalists and those they receive from their parents to live in the countries of the Union Europe. For some of these categories offers the possibility to obtain multiple entry visas for a period of 1 year to 5 years. An agreement was signed by 24 of the 27 European countries. The document is not valid in the United Kingdom, Denmark and Ireland. Void agreement with Norway and Iceland are not EU members but belong to the Schengen area. The new rules added to tourists and tour operators of problems, including material properties. "Although states agree on visa facilitation, in fact, for normal tourists everything is more complicated," - said a spokesman for the Russian Union of Tourist Industry Irina Tyurina. Consulate brought the rules to the requirements of the new, and not in all cases, has played a positive role. Somewhere in the cost of visas is off, even - for example, an entry visa to the Czech Republic is now no need to pay € 43 and 35. But all collected before the registration of over 35 €. Therefore, a visa for tourists coming to Poland, now much more expensive. Before signing that costs 10 €, now, as agreed in the state - 35 At the same time many countries are prepared before a visa in a few days - the same poles, June 1 in order to document receipt of the application for 1-2 days, the Hungarians, the last 7 days. Now this period has increased at all. "All happy consulates to a new mode of operation, and now that the visa for 10 days, and wait if you can not expect to offer an emergency visa, and it is 70 €", - said Irina Tyurina said seeing the newspaper. Several countries have identified in accordance with the agreement of Russia and the EU, the value of adult and child visas. If the visa for the child and had little or free, but now it costs 35 € - for example, has established a procedure for Slovakia. The mass of the tour operator receives complaints, says the PCT. Many consulates coordinate their work with a new contract, the rules of the design documents have been changed. But they were not warned. The result - significantly increases the number of errors in the visa. For example, the failure rate of the Czech Republic is now in the neighborhood of 25-40%. Just the other day about 36 clients were "Inter" 10 failures, and 12 are invited for an interview. , 10 tourists without a visa "Calypso", 8 ". Turtrans Voyage" by almost all the errors related to the claims paperwork to the consulate. See