Facilitation of re-entry
Article 16
1. Member States shall facilitate re-entry of third-country nationals who were admitted to that Member State as seasonal workers at least once within the previous five years, and who fully respected the conditions applicable to seasonal workers under this Directive during each of their stays. 2. The facilitation referred to in paragraph 1 may include one or more measures such as: (a) the grant of an exemption from the requirement to submit one or more of the documents referred to in Articles 5 or 6; (b) the issuing of several seasonal worker permits in a single administrative act; (c) an accelerated procedure leading to a decision on the application for a seasonal worker permit or a long stay visa; (d) priority in examining applications for admission as a seasonal worker, including taking into account previous admissions when deciding on applications with regard to the exhaustion of volumes of admission.