Federal Act
on Foreign Nationals and Integration
(Foreign Nationals and Integration Act, FNIA)¹

¹ In ac­cord­ance with Reg­u­la­tion (EU) 2017/2226³⁵³, the entry and exit sys­tem (EES) con­tains the per­son­al data of third-coun­try cit­izens who enter the Schen­gen area for a stay of a max­im­um of 90 days in any peri­od of 180 days or whose entry in­to the Schen­gen area is re­fused.

² The fol­low­ing cat­egor­ies of data are trans­ferred via the na­tion­al in­ter­face to the EES:

a.

al­pha­nu­mer­ic­al data re­lat­ing to the third-coun­try cit­izens con­cerned and the data re­lat­ing to visas is­sued if such must be is­sued;

b.

fa­cial im­age;

c.

the time of entry in­to and exit from the Schen­gen area, the bor­der cross­ing point and the au­thor­ity re­spons­ible for the bor­der checks;

d.

re­fus­als of entry.

³ If third-coun­try cit­izens are visa-ex­empt, in ad­di­tion to the data un­der para­graph 2, the re­spons­ible au­thor­ity shall fin­ger­print the per­sons con­cerned and trans­fer the fin­ger­prints to the EES.