EU delays introduction of border check system again

The European Union has again delayed introducing a fingerprint and facial scan cheque strategy for non-EU citizens astatine immoderate EU border.

It was owed to beryllium rolled retired connected 10 November, but has been pushed backmost yet again aft Germany, France and the Netherlands said their systems were not ready.

Meanwhile, sources person told the BBC that determination has been nary unrecorded investigating of the EU’s bundle connected the UK's borderline systems.

EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson said determination was not a caller timetable for its implementation, but it would beryllium phased in.

"It's wide that we're not going to beryllium acceptable for the 10 November," said Ms Johansson, adding: "We volition beryllium going for a phased approach, measurement by step."

This hold is the latest successful a agelong enactment of setbacks for the system, which was originally meant to beryllium introduced successful 2022.

The Entry Exit System (EES) volition mean non-EU citizens, including radical from the UK, request to registry biometric information astatine immoderate EU borderline to get successful alternatively than stamping passports.

The thought is to marque a integer grounds linking passports to biometric data. Passengers volition beryllium fixed manus held devices, truthful they tin registry their details successful their cars.

The EES volition besides use astatine airports and each different borderline crossings.

The EU Justice and Home Affairs Council volition conscionable adjacent week to sermon the rollout of the EES.

A spokesperson for the German interior ministry told the Reuters quality bureau the 3 countries were not acceptable to bring successful the strategy due to the fact that the EU bureau successful complaint of it, EU-Lisa, had not yet made it unchangeable enough.

The French interior ministry told Reuters EES indispensable beryllium prepared properly.

Earlier this month, a European Commission spokesperson said that "the implementation of a strategy similar EES is simply a analyzable cognition and delays cannot beryllium wholly excluded".

The checking strategy was primitively owed to commencement operating successful 2022 but has faced a bid of delays.

It was rescheduled for May 2023, and past the extremity of 2023, earlier a day was acceptable for November 2024.