| 14 March 2007 Slovakia will meet the EU conditions concerning its border with Ukraine by June, Interior Minister Robert Kalinak told journalists on 14 March. Slovakia won’t accept any variant other than that we will be prepared in June. The Slovak-Ukrainian border is to become an external border of the broadened Schengen area as of 2008. EU assessment commission will arrive in Slovakia in late June to check the security of the border with Ukraine. The Slovak Government agreed with EU today on an Action Plan according to which Slovakia would join the Schengen area. Mr Kalinak said the plan was a reaction to last year's critical comments about Slovakia not being sufficiently prepared for Schengen. Kalinak reconfirmed that a new Slovak-Ukrainian border crossing in Vysne Nemecke would be opened by June 2007. First EU assessment commission will come to Slovakia in late March to assess the country's preparedness in the area of personal data protection. In September, the commission is planned to check the protection of Slovak air borders. When joining the EU, Slovakia and other newly acceded EU states were to join the new police database, the Schengen information system, called SIS II. However, due to delay in the development of SIS II, EU extended operation on SIS I database to include the new EU states. | 
