Originally Posted by AviosTreasureHunter

The anomoly is because Germany decided to experiment at MUC (and only MUC) to expand their EasyPass scheme to Australian citizens (and some other nationalities but not Brits). At all other German airport EasyPass is just for non EU citizen German residents, US, Taiwanese and South Korean citizens. Germany says this is reciprocal but oddly does not include Brits despite UK E-Gates all being open for Germans. Go figure.

Interestingly, Germans are almost the only EU citizens that are not allowed to use the E-Gates in Australia! I remember landing at Darwin from East Timor and Germany was the glaring ommission from the large photograph of flags who could use the E-Gates. They even had an ABF lady shouting 'Any Germans?' to ensure they were sent to a manned desk.

As for GVA, sadly the E-Gates at Swiss Airport are still only for EU/EEA/CH.