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The Entry/Exit System (EES) is Europe’s new border management system for registering non-EU nationals travelling for a short stay, each time they cross the external borders of 29 European countries.
What is the EES?
The Entry/Exist System, or EES, is an IT system that will be used at Schengen Area external borders for scanning passports and other travel documents of ‘non-EU nationals’. (For the purposes of the EES, ‘non-EU national’ means a traveller who is not a citizen of any European Union country or of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland). Replacing manual passport checks, the automated Entry/Exit System will use biometric and biographic data contained in passports and travel documents to register non-EU Nationals who travel to the Schengen Area for ‘short-stays’, stays that amount to less than 90 days within any 180 day period.
Starting from 12th October 2025, the 29 European countries using the EES will progressively roll out the system at their external borders over a period of six months.
During this period, travellers’ data may not be collected at every border crossing point right away. Once the progressive rollout is complete, the EES will be fully operational at all external border crossing points.
What countries will implement the EES?
All Schengen Zone countries will implement the EES. Those countries are: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.
As Ireland is not participating in EES, travellers coming directly to Ireland are not bound by the scheme’s requirements.
For more information, visit https://www.irishimmigration.ie/at-the-border/eu-entry-exit-system-ees/
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