The following glossary of terms was produced by the European Stability Initiative, a non-profit research and policy institute. It was compiled from key concepts and technical terms that appear in the visa roadmaps for Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.

• Breeder documents
• ID cards
• Carriers’ responsibility
• Confiscation of assets of criminals
• Council of Europe Conventions
• Council of Europe conventions relating to judicial cooperation in criminal matters
• Corruption
• EU joint action on travel ban
• EU legislative instruments
• Eurojust
• European Police Office (Europol)
• Strategic cooperation agreements
• Operational cooperation agreements
• FRONTEX
• Group of States against Corruption (GRECO)
• ICAO and EC standards regarding biometric information in travel documents
• Inland detection of illegal migrants
• Integrity and security of the passport personalisation and distribution
• LASP/SLTD database
• Machine-readable biometric travel document
• Migration management
• Monitoring of migration flows
• Migration profiles
• Money laundering
• National Integrated Border Management
• National Strategy for Reintegration of Returnees
• Personal Data Protection Law
• Readmission agreement
• Bilateral readmission agreement
• Implementing protocols
• EU standard travel documents for expulsion purposes
• Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)
• Refugees
• IDPs
• Schengen Agreement
• Schengen White and Black Lists
• SIS and VIS
• Trafficking in human beings
• Visa Facilitation Agreement
• Visa refusal rate and refusal rate of entry
• Visa refusal rate
• Refusal rate of entry