1 See "Commissioner Johansson's speech on the Entry/Exit System at eu-LISA" (16 August 2024) at: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/SPEECH_24_4286.
2 See B. Restelica, “EU’s New Entry/Exit System Launch Date Postponed to November 10,” Schengen.news, 17 July 2024, by clicking here.
See A. Symons, “Is the EES delayed again? Everything you need to know about the post-Brexit Schengen checks,” Euronews, 18 July 2024, by clicking here.
For additional information, see S. Calder, "What will the EU’s new entry-exit system mean for British travellers?: Under the entry-exit system, from 10 November 2024 British travellers to the Schengen Area can expect to be fingerprinted and provide a facial biometric," Independent (online) (22 August 2024), by clicking here.
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For prior coverage of EES (and ETIAS), see GMS Flash Alert 2023-019 (24 January 2023).
3 For the regulation regarding EES, see: Regulation (EU) 2018/1806 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 November 2018 listing the third countries whose nationals must be in possession of visas when crossing the external borders and those whose nationals are exempt from that requirement (codification)’.
4 For additional information, see "New requirements to travel to Europe" at: https://travel-europe.europa.eu/ees_en.
5 Ibid.
6 See: https://travel-europe.europa.eu/ees/faqs-ees_en.
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