27.5.2014 Official Journal of the European Union L 15723 DECISIONS DECISION No 565/2014/EU OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 15 May 2014 introducing a simplified regime for the control of persons at the external borders based on the unilateral recognition by Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus and Romania of certain documents as equivalent to their national visas for transit through or intended stays on their territories not exceeding 90 days in any 180-day period and repealing Decisions No 895/2006/EC and No 582/2008/EC THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular points (a) and (b) of Article 77(2) thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission, After transmission of the draft legislative act to the national parliaments, Acting in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure (!), Whereas: (4) Pursuant to Article 4(1) of the 2011 Act of Accession, Croatia, which acceded to the Union on 1 July 2013, is required from that date to subject nationals of the third countries listed in Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 539/2001 (3 to a visa requirement. Pursuant to Article 4(2) of the 2011 Act of Accession, the provisions of the Schengen acquis on the conditions and criteria for issuing uniform visas, as well as the provisions on mutual recognition of visas and on the equiva- lence between residence permits/long stay visas and short stay visas, only apply to Croatia after adoption of a Council decision to that effect. However, they are binding on Croatia from the date of accession. Croatia is therefore required to issue national visas for entry into or transit through its territory to third-country nationals holding a uniform visa or long-stay visa or residence permit issued by a Member State fully imple- menting the Schengen acquis or a similar document issued by Bulgaria, Cyprus and Romania, which do not yet fully implement it. The holders of documents issued by Member States fully implementing the Schengen acquis and documents issued by Bulgaria, Cyprus and Romania do not represent any risk for Croatia as they have been subject to all () Position of the European Parliament of 27 February 2014 (not yet published in the Official Journal) and decision of the Council of 6 May 2014. (% Council Regulation (EC) No 539/2001 of 15 March 2001 listing the third countries whose nationals must be in possession of visas when crossing the external borders and those whose nationals are exempt from that requirement (OJ L 81, 21.3.2001, p. 1).