On the border of the EU NOVA Schengen rules, strict control PASSENGERS

On the borders of the EU of tomorrow to apply the new Schengen rules checking passengers for the protection of the EU from terrorism. In addition to citizens of third countries, the border will be thoroughly checked and the citizens of the EU, which will cause additional waiting and crowds.In current practice, it was enough to border police officers perform basic control of passengers travel documents.

However, it will now be a document check in the Schengen Information System, the Interpol database of stolen and lost travel documents, and the national database for stolen, misused, lost or damaged travel documents.From the Croatian Ministry of the Interior announced that the border police officers conduct systematic check of all passengers through Interpol and national databases.Third-country nationals to enter Croatia must have proper travel documents enabling them to cross the border, which must be valid for at least three months after the planned date of departure from the territory of a Member State.

In addition, passengers must justify the purpose and conditions of the intended stay, and that they have sufficient means of subsistence both for the duration of the intended stay and for the return to their home country or transit to a third country for which they are sure they will accept them or have such means able to legitimately obtained.For them in accessible databases should not be issued a warning for the purposes of the prohibition of entry and must not pose a threat to public order, international security, public health or international relations of any of the EU member states.

Border guards Slovenia will, for example, a detailed check the travel documents of all persons with special readers, document by document, at every border crossing.To avoid any inconvenience, all passengers are advised to check the status of your documents, especially if they are in the last two years they were estranged, lost or damaged, according to media reports.This is necessary to ensure the information on the documents correctly entered in the state and other databases.

Passengers should check and if their travel documents valid, as well as information on the situation at border crossings before starting on a journey, then to choose passes with less frequency of traffic or to embark on a journey in parts of the day and week when the crowds usually less.Systematic checks are foreseen adopted amendments to the Law on the Schengen Borders Code, under which member countries of the Schengen area have an obligation to introduce enhanced system checks at its border crossings.

These checks have been introduced to prevent any threat to the internal security and public order of the Member States of the EU.

• 6 Apr, 2017
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