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 nan gradual implementation of a caller physics separator power system, known arsenic nan Entry/Exit System (EES), which involves registering nan fingerprints of group from third-party countries and taking their photographs earlier they participate 29 European countries

Although nan automated system's preamble started connected Sunday, nan full process will return astir six months to beryllium afloat implemented crossed each EU Member States.

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

According to nan EU Commission, nan caller integer strategy intends to place visa overstayers and antagonistic forbidden migration and personality fraud. Its motorboat came arsenic a consequence of increasing governmental unit successful galore EU countries calling connected nan Union to return a tougher stance connected migration issues.

"The Entry/Exit System is nan 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 nan outer separator will beryllium taxable to personality 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 nan caller procedures".

The implementation of nan strategy intends that from now on, non-EU citizens will person to registry their biometric information erstwhile they first participate nan Schengen area.

The strategy will screen each EU countries isolated from Ireland and Cyprus, arsenic good arsenic Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. For consequent travel, only biometric verification of personality will beryllium required.

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