Originally Posted by
jib71
It's the obvious tit for tat and it gets mentioned in this forum from time to time. I doubt that it will come to that.
The EU is supposed to suspend visa waivers for Japanese passport holders from mid-August or early October (not totally sure which date is referred to), if they follow their laws.
The most recent report on the matter:
imfname_11151251.pdf (parlament.gv.at)
This shows that Germany notified the EU on 13th August 2020:
C_2020332EN.01000301.xml (europa.eu)
EUR-Lex - 32018R1806 - EN - EUR-Lex (europa.eu)
Article 7 (f) says:
if within 24 months of the date of the publication referred to in the third subparagraph of point (a), the third country concerned has not lifted the visa requirement, the Commission shall adopt a delegated act in accordance with Article 10 temporarily suspending the exemption from the visa requirement for a period of 12 months for the nationals of that third country. The delegated act shall fix a date, within 90 days of its entry into force, on which the suspension of the exemption from the visa requirement is to take effect, taking into account the available resources in the consulates of the Member States and shall amend Annex II accordingly. That amendment shall be made by inserting next to the name of the third country in question a footnote indicating that the exemption from the visa requirement is suspended with regard to that third country and specifying the period of that suspension.
The date of notification was 13th August 2020, but the date of publication of the journal was 8th October 2020, which seems to be the date referred to in the legislation above.