"what we're staying in Europe now because travel businesses are spending tens of millions of pounds and Euros preparing for the eu's much delayed new border control system the entry exit system now due to launch in the Autumn means that non-eu Nationals including people from the UK will have to register their fingerprints and a photo before being allowed into the block well there have been repeated warnings that this registration process will cause delays for Holi
day makers at British border points including the port of Dover the Eurostar station in London and the Euro tunnel entry point in folkton where French border police check passports as people leave the UK our transport correspondent Katie Austin has the latest on what's being done to minimize the impact DOA Europe's busiest ferry port since brexit Brits have had to have their passports stamped as they travel through and there's more change to come this Autumn a new EU it system is due to go live at the border it'll replace passport stamping it'll also mean people have to register their
fingerprints have a photo taken and answer some questions about their journey and at places like Dover the registration process will have to be done here at the Port people queuing for fairies will be handed an iPad to collect the extra information Dover has already suffered from long cues at Peak periods the time it will take to register has prompted concerns of longer Waits so right now would take somewhere between seconds and a minute and a half typically for a car to go through border controls so a firsttime traveler who has to register their details should anticipate that it will take a couple of minutes to register those details on the system so then it depends on how many people are in the car what
nationalities are in the car as well and and so it will take a bit longer the port is spending about million pounds preparing trying to make things go smoothly coach loads of passengers will be processed in a separate area there's also a plan to reclaim Land from the Sea by next summer to create more space coach companies like this one in Cornwall worry about bottlenecks getting worse we find that a lot of our customers have already had a fairly lengthy Journey
before they even get to Dover we've also got to think about driver's hours and the cost on driver's hours it's not only DOA that's affected Euro tunnel is putting million pound towards new new lanes for cars and machines like this to take people's details at eurostar's London St panras terminal space is tight to try to avoid long cues it will install new EES
kiosks it's expanding into other areas of the station like this to fit them in behind me you have where our passengers arrive normally for checkin today and unfortunately es brings an additional step where we have kiosks and those kiosks will be positioned just around the Corner also a huge amount of people there to guide our passengers Eurostar insists its preparations will mean people don't need to turn up any earlier before a train for the first months the EU is expected to allow EES checks to be reduced if cues get really bad still travel busines
ses have nerves about what's on the horizon Katy Austin BBC News"
what we're staying in Europe now because travel businesses are spending tens of millions of pounds and Euros preparing for the eu's much delayed new border control system the entry exit system now due to launch in the Autumn means that non-eu Nationals including people from the UK will have to register their fingerprints and a photo before being allowed into the block well there have been repeated warnings that this registration process will cause delays for
Holiday makers at British border points including the port of Dover the Eurostar station in London and the Euro tunnel entry point in folkton where French border police check passports as people leave the UK our transport correspondent Katie Austin has the latest on what's being done to minimize the impact DOA Europe's busiest ferry port since brexit Brits have had to have their passports stamped as they travel through and there's more change to come this Autumn a new EU it system is due to go live at the border it'll replace passport stamping it'll also mean people have to register
their fingerprints have a photo taken and answer some questions about their journey and at places like Dover the registration process will have to be done here at the Port people queuing for fairies will be handed an iPad to collect the extra information Dover has already suffered from long cues at Peak periods the time it will take to register has prompted concerns of longer Waits so right now would take somewhere between 45 seconds and a minute and a half typically for a car to go through border controls so a firsttime traveler who has to register their details should anticipate that it will take a couple of minutes to register those details on the system so then it depends on how many people are in the car what nationalities are in the car as well and and so it will take a bit longer the port is spending about 10 million pounds preparing trying to make things go smoothly coach loads of passengers will be processed in a separate area
there's also a plan to reclaim Land from the Sea by next summer to create more space coach companies like this one in Cornwall worry about bottlenecks getting worse we find that a lot of our customers have already had a fairly lengthy Journey before they even get to Dover we've also got to think about driver's hours and the cost on driver's hours it's not only DOA that's affected Euro tunnel is putting 70 million pound towards new new lanes for cars and machines like this to take people's details at eurostar's London St panras terminal space is tight to try to avoid long cues it will install 49
new EES kiosks it's expanding into other areas of the station like this to fit them in behind me you have where our passengers arrive normally for checkin today and unfortunately es brings an additional step where we have kiosks and
those kiosks will be positioned just around the Corner also a huge amount of people there to guide our passengers Eurostar insists its preparations will mean people don't need to turn up any earlier before a train for the first 6 months the EU is expected to allow EES checks to be reduced if cues get really bad still travel businesses have nerves about what's on the horizon Katy Austin BBC News"
- New EU border control system called the Entry-Exit System (EES) set to launch in Autumn.
- Non-EU nationals, including UK citizens, required to register fingerprints and photo before entering the EU.
- Concerns raised about potential delays for travelers at British border points like Dover, Eurostar station in London, and Eurotunnel entry point in Folkton.
- Dover, Europe's busiest ferry port, spending £10 million to prepare for the new system, including separate processing areas for coach loads of passengers.
- Eurotunnel investing £70 million in new lanes for cars and machines, Eurostar adding 49 new EES kiosks at London St Pancras terminal to minimize queues.
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