EU Under Industry Pressure over ‘Shambolic’ EES Rollout
Holidaymakers face longer waits as biometric registration restarts and the average time saved by a pre-registration app is only 23 seconds, Frontex said.
- On Monday, European border checks resume in full force as member states' rights to waive Entry/ Exit System checks during periods of maximum stress expire.
- Introduced in April, the EES requires British passport holders and other third-country nationals to register biometric data across 29 countries, a requirement that earlier caused widespread delays and missed flights.
- Travel expert Jake Cullum-Hollins suggests wait times should decrease as airports adapt and faulty kiosks are fixed, while lower passenger volumes currently may mitigate earlier summer chaos.
- ABTA advises passengers to proceed through passport control immediately after security, and the app allows pre-registration for select destinations, reducing border time to fingerprint scans only.
- In July, nine countries penned a letter to European Commissioner for Internal and Migration Affairs Magnus Brunner, calling the end of the suspension a "source of serious and legitimate concern.
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EU under industry pressure over ‘shambolic’ EES rollout
The EU’s Entry/Exit System is facing fresh pressure after emergency measures designed to prevent border chaos expired, with major travel companies warning that passengers could once again face lengthy queues and missed flights.
As of today, Sunday 6 September, the extraordinary flexibility measures granted to EU Member States for the European EES (entry exit system) system, which came into operation in April of this year, end. The risk is now that the long queues will return to the borders that had marked the beginning of the summer at several European airports. [...] L'articolo Riparto i controli biometrici at airports: da oggi rischio rischio code e disaggi alle fron…
The new rules at the external borders of the European Union have brought major changes for non-EU travelers.
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