EU's digital border Entry and Exit system comes into effect across member states

Published on 12/10/2025 - 14:32 GMT+2

The EU connected Sunday began the gradual implementation of a caller physics borderline power system, known arsenic the Entry/Exit System (EES), which involves registering the fingerprints of radical from third-party countries and taking their photographs earlier they participate 29 European countries

Although the automated system's instauration started connected Sunday, the full process volition instrumentality astir six months to beryllium afloat implemented crossed each EU Member States.

Major airports successful Italy, including those of Fiumicino and Malpensa airports and the ports of Genoa and Civitavecchia, connected Sunday began the usage of the caller system, portion Germany began its gradual signifier successful Stuttgart.

According to the EU Commission, the caller integer strategy aims to place visa overstayers and antagonistic amerciable migration and individuality fraud. Its motorboat came arsenic a effect of increasing governmental unit successful galore EU countries calling connected the Union to instrumentality a tougher stance connected migration issues.

"The Entry/Exit System is the integer backbone of our caller communal European model connected migration and asylum," European Commissioner for Home Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner said successful a statement.

"Any third-country nationalist who crosses the outer borderline volition beryllium taxable to individuality verification, information checks and registration successful EU databases," - Brunner added.

He stressed that "the six-month implementation play gives Member States, travellers and businesses clip to set smoothly to the caller procedures".

The implementation of the strategy means that from present on, non-EU citizens volition person to registry their biometric information erstwhile they archetypal participate the Schengen area.

The strategy volition screen each EU countries but Ireland and Cyprus, arsenic good arsenic Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. For consequent travel, lone biometric verification of individuality volition beryllium required.

The EES is expected to beryllium afloat operational connected 10 April 2026, erstwhile the accepted stamps successful passports volition beryllium wholly replaced by physics entries.