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The EU will set up its Entry-Exit System (EES) by the end of 2024. It is a new IT system to record travellers entering and leaving the EU. FRA will examine the potential fundamental rights implications of the system. It aims to develop guidance and support material for EU Member States and EU institutions to implement the system in a fundamental rights’ compliant manner.
Europe’s migration and security challenges have prompted the EU to develop and enhance multiple large-scale IT systems. When the EES becomes operational, it will support border management in various ways. However, this also has wide-ranging fundamental rights implications. These include data protection, the right to information, preventing discrimination, the right to asylum, access to justice and child rights.
This project builds on FRA’s past findings on the use of biometric data and on EU large-scale border management IT systems. Over the next ten months, FRA will work with an external contractor and its national research network, Franet. It will collect the views and experiences of staff working at border crossing points, authorities and experts in six selected EU Member States (Bulgaria, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy and Poland). It will carry out interviews, round table discussions, a survey and on-site observations.
