EU and European Parliament Councils have reached an agreement on the Regulation on the Gradual Introduction of the Entry / Out (EES) system, electronic system that will allow definitive to hike the stamps in the passport.
This agreement should now formally confirm both legislative institutions. After that, the Commission should be made a special decision on the beginning of the gradual introduction of the EES. The transition period will last for six months. The ees is a common electronic system that will record and store information on the date, time and place of entry and exit of EU citizens exceeding EU borders, which is definitely leaving the stamps in the passport.
It will automatically calculate the duration of the permissible stay of these third countries and issuing warnings to EU Member States on the expiration of the period of permitted residence. It was planned that the EES began to apply already in November last year, but it was postponed because not all countries were ready to implement.
Therefore, the Commission has proposed to gradually move with the application of the system. The EES will be applied to persons who need a visa for short-term stays and on those who come from countries outside the EU excepted by the obligation to own visa. In the first two months of the Member State, the system could apply without the use of biometric data, and after three months, the EES should also be applied with biometric data to at least 50 percent of border crossings.
Full application of the system, that is, the registration of all passenger transitions should follow the end of the transitional period. During the transition period, it would continue to put the stamp in the passport. The EES will apply to persons who need a visa for short-term stay and to those who come from countries outside the EU excepted by the possibility of visiting the visa.
Within that new system, border control officers will scan the fingerprints of people who cross the border for the first time or to take photos of those persons. This information will be stored in the digital file, which will allow you to know exactly who enters the Schengen space with a foreign passport and who remains longer than 90 days allowed, writes Radio Sarajevo.
