The head of the Sarajevo Regional Centre, Mr. Dražen Vujica, spoke to Dnevni avaz about the European Union’s announcement to introduce new, automated European systems for registering travellers and issuing permits for travelling to EU countries, which should speed up the flow at the border of BiH and Croatia, i.e., the EU.
It is the long-announced system for the registration of travellers to Schengen countries, ETIAS (European Travel Information and Authorisation System), and the EU traveller registration system, EES (European Entry/Exit System), which should be implemented in parallel next year.
The essence of this system is that before travelling, citizens will fill out a request for travel to a certain destination via the application, enter the information required by the form, pay a fee of approximately seven euros, after which appropriate checks will be carried out, and then a permit will be issued that lasts for three years and is exclusively related to the travel document. This system abolishes the obligation to stamp passports; travel documents will be exclusively scanned; and the standard in Europe is that everyone has a chip-embedded machine-readable document.
“Every digitisation process brings positive things in terms of a faster and safer flow of people and goods, and from the EU’s point of view, this is a step towards increasing security. Bosnia and Herzegovina certainly has the most modern personal documents and follows all world standards in terms of security and protection of documents, the identity of citizens, and all other things,” points out Vujica.
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EU priprema nove sisteme na granicama: Pečatiranje pasoša odlazi u prošlost