10. Welcomes the progress in implementing the Visa Liberalisation Action Plan; calls on the authorities to implement swiftly and fully all the required criteria; calls on the Commission to step up its work on Kosovo’s visa liberalisation process; is prepared to endorse, and calls on the Council to endorse quickly, the visa-free regime for Kosovo, as soon as the Commission has determined in a timely manner that all the technical criteria have been met; expresses the need, at the same time, to continue to seek out and prosecute hu
man traffickers and smugglers in order to disincentivise their
illegal activity; ...[+++] urges all the EU institutions, and particularly the Commission, to accelerate the visa liberalisation process for Kosovo, and urges the Kosovo authorities to fulfil their commitments and implement the remaining benchmarks with the aim of Kosovo entering the visa-free regime in the course of 2016, which will bring the people of Kosovo closer to the EU;