On Friday 7 April, the amendment to the Schengen Border Code bringing in systematic controls on all travellers crossing the external Schengen borders, including European nationals, who will be checked against European police files, entered into force. The reform, which was proposed at the end of 2015 following the Paris attacks, was definitively approved on 7 March (see EUROPE 11740).
Readers may recall that the new regulation requires air, land and sea border agents to check all travellers...