Entry/Exit System (EES), Regulation (EU) 2017/2226
Digital registration of non-EU travellers at the Schengen external border.
What we read it for
Registration at the border on the entry pages; operations started gradually from 12 October 2025.
Identity
| Type | Regulation |
| Identifier | EU 2017/2226 |
| CELEX | 32017R2226 |
| Adopted | 2017-11-30 |
| In force | 2017-12-29 |
| Applies from | 2025-10-12 |
73 articles in the base act
Structure
The chapter structure of this act is not read into the register yet. The official text carries it.
Articles
73 articles are read into the register, one address each.
- 1 · Subject matter
- 2 · Scope
- 3 · Definitions
- 4 · Borders at which the EES is operated and use of the EES at those borders
- 5 · Set-up of the EES
- 6 · Objectives of the EES
- 7 · Technical architecture of the EES
- 8 · Interoperability with the VIS
- 9 · Access to the EES for entering, amending, erasing and consulting data
- 10 · General principles
- 11 · Automated calculator and obligation to inform third-country nationals on the remaining authorised stay
- 12 · Information mechanism
- 13 · Web service
- 14 · Procedures for entering data in the EES
- 15 · Facial image of third-country nationals
- 16 · Personal data of third-country nationals subject to a visa requirement
- 17 · Personal data of visa-exempt third-country nationals
- 18 · Personal data of third-country nationals who have been refused entry
- 19 · Data to be added where an authorisation for short stay is revoked, annulled or extended
- 20 · Data to be added in case of rebuttal of the presumption that a third-country national does not fulfil the conditions of duration of authorised stay
- 21 · Fall-back procedures where it is technically impossible to enter data or in the event of failure of the EES
- 22 · Transitional period and transitional measures
- 23 · Use of data for verification at the borders at which the EES is operated
- 24 · Use of the EES for examining and deciding on visas
- 25 · Use of the EES for examining applications for access to national facilitation programmes
- 26 · Access to data for verification within the territory of the Member States
- 27 · Access to data for identification
- 28 · Keeping of data retrieved from the EES
- 29 · Member States’ designated authorities
- 30 · Europol
- 31 · Procedure for access to the EES for law enforcement purposes
- 32 · Conditions for access to EES data by designated authorities
- 33 · Procedure and conditions for access to EES data by Europol
- 34 · Data retention period
- 35 · Amendment of data and advance data erasure
- 36 · Adoption of implementing acts by the Commission prior to development
- 37 · Development and operational management
- 38 · Responsibilities of Member States and Europol
- 39 · Responsibility for data processing
- 40 · Keeping of data in national files and national entry/exit systems
- 41 · Communication of data to third countries, international organisations and private entities
- 42 · Conditions for communication of data to a Member State which does not yet operate the EES and to a Member State to which this Regulation does not apply
- 43 · Data security
- 44 · Security incidents
- 45 · Liability
- 46 · Keeping of logs by eu-LISA and Member States
- 47 · Self-monitoring
- 48 · Penalties
- 49 · Data Protection
- 50 · Right of information
- 51 · Information campaign
- 52 · Right of access to, rectification, completion and erasure of personal data, and of restriction of the processing thereof
- 53 · Cooperation to enforce the rights on data protection
- 54 · Remedies
- 55 · Supervision by the supervisory authority
- 56 · Supervision by the European Data Protection Supervisor
- 57 · Cooperation between supervisory authorities sssand the European Data Protection Supervisor
- 58 · Protection of personal data accessed in accordance with Chapter IV
- 59 · Logging and documentation
- 60 · Amendment to the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement
- 61 · Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 767/2008
- 62 · Amendments to Regulation (EU) No 1077/2011
- 63 · Use of data for reporting and statistics
- 64 · Costs
- 65 · Notifications
- 66 · Start of operations
- 67 · Ceuta and Melilla
- 68 · Committee procedure
- 69 · Advisory Group
- 70 · Training
- 71 · Practical handbook
- 72 · Monitoring and evaluation
- 73 · Entry into force and applicability
Language versions
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National law
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| National law | Identifier | Official text |
|---|---|---|
| Sweden: Line not read yet | — | National register |
| Norway: Line not read yet | — | National register |
| Denmark: Line not read yet | — | National register |
| Finland: Line not read yet | — | National register |
| Germany: Line not read yet | — | National register |
| United Kingdom: Line not read yet | — | National register |
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