EU Entry-Exit System Delayed -  Read All About It


For those ex-pats who either live in or take holidays in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and arrive and depart through South Cyprus airports, it will interesting to see how they are handled in line with the following incoming legistrations.


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The much-delayed entry-exit system (EES) has been postponed – and possibly watered down – just eight weeks after the EU home affairs commissioner declared it would come into force on 10 November.

Entry-Exit system (EES)


Ylva Johansson said the ambitious Schengen area border plan, requiring “third-country nationals” – including British visitors – to provide fingerprints and facial biometrics on entry, would launch at every frontier post from the Arctic to the Aegean.


But in yet another blow for the troubled digital border project, it now appears a pilot programme is expected to begin some time in 2025, and a subtle change of wording from the European Commission suggests the demand for fingerprints may be quietly dropped.


A summary of proceedings of the EU’s Justice and Home Affairs Council on 10 October revealed: “To ensure a smooth transition, the commission outlined plans to roll out the EES in a phased manner.


“The details of this approach will be established in the coming weeks.”


It is now expected that a pilot scheme, perhaps involving a few medium-sized airports, ports and land frontiers, will begin at some point in 2025 – possibly as late as the autumn. But new legislation is required because it was never envisaged that there would be anything except a “big bang” approach with the system implemented everywhere from day one.


One senior UK travel industry source told The Independent: “It will almost certainly be well into 2025 before there is any chance of it having a significant effect on British travellers.”

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