The EU's long-awaited Entry/Exit System (EES) , a digital registration tool for visitors to Europe, finally launches on Sunday after multiple delays.

What happens on October 12?

Non-European travellers arriving in all EU countries - with the exception of Cyprus and Ireland, who are not in the Schengen zone - will be asked to show their passport and have their fingerprints and photo taken at border checkpoints

This information will also be required upon arrival in Schengen member nations Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland, and will be stored for three years in most cases

It will be collected at the first time of entry after the EES is introduced. For future trips, passport control officers will check travellers' fingerprints and photo against the database - a procedure whi

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