MOSCOW (Sputnik) — She added that other progress had been made with regards to benchmark on data protection. She also said that Turkey's Minister for EU Affairs Volkan Bozkır was expected to come to Brussels this week to meet with EU commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos to continue this dialogue.
"There continues to be progress on the meeting of five remaining benchmarks by Turkey, notably president [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan last week signed the law, operation of which will lead to entering into effect the Turkish-EU readmission agreement, as regards third countries, which are the provisions we were waiting to come into force on 1 June, so that is on track," the commission's spokeswoman Natasha Bertaud said at a press briefing.
"Let's add to this progress that progress has been made concerning the reporting on corruption of officials. So it leaves us with terrorism law and the biometric definition," EC spokesman Margaritis Shinas added.
In March, Brussels and Ankara agreed on a deal, under which Turkey pledged to take back all undocumented migrants, in return, the bloc pledged to introduce a visa-free regime, as well as to speed up the Turkish EU accession bid.
On May 6, Erdogan said that Turkey would not revise its anti-terrorism legislation under the EU-Turkey deal on migration. On May 29, European Parliament President Martin Schulz said that visa-free regime between Turkey and the 28-nation bloc would be possible only if Ankara fulfilled all 72 EU requirements.
