On Thursday 5 December, the European Commission proposed to phase in the operations of the new EU Entry/Exit System (EES) developed by the eu-LISA agency, giving Member States six months to deploy it.
“The EES is a state-of-the-art IT system that will digitally record the entries and exits, passport data, fingerprints and facial images of third-country nationals on short-term stays in one of the EU Member States or Schengen area countries”, explains the Commission in a press release.