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Old Feb 11, 2020 | 1:27 pm
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Originally Posted by JamesBigglesworth
Who said anything about an EU-wide system?

I said that at entry or exit to the region a person should have the entry/exit recorded. That's completely true. I'm sorry you read more into it than was in the sentence.
And that is totally incorrect.

[MENTION=7202]GUWonder[/MENTION] in the post above explain it very well.

There is no legal requirement to record entry/exits of EU citizens. You can read the consolidated text of the Schengen Borders Code (2019) here

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-cont...R0399-20190611

I can assure you that Spain (a country I know well) does not record EU citizens going in and out of the Schengen Area (that if you find a border guard that bothers to put your passport or ID card in the machine reader, that a couple of years ago was 0% chance).
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