Part III Entry / Exit System

As a prerequisite, the European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) will perform a detailed checked on each applicant to determine whether they are allowed to enter any Schengen Zone country. Therefore, cruise ships must submit their passengers and crew manifest for verification before departing from the harbor.

To facilitate this, the Entry/Exit System (EES) is used to generate the required EES data file for submission, and this can be done in two ways.

• Web Portal (CSV): Export of required EES date file to .csv format and update to eu-LISA Web Portal
• System to System (S2S): Submit the required EES date file directly to eu-LISA endpoint using REST API, System to System(S2S)

Once the EES processes the submission, a response files is generated.

• For Web Portal submission, download the response file from the eu-LISA Web portal and manually uploaded into SPMS, EES module to update each passenger's or crew's status
• For System to System, manual uploading of response file is no longer needed. The returned statuses are automatically updated in SPMS through the API endpoint