Commission visited Switzerland to verificate its readiness to abolish border checks at its international airports

Switzerland, 9-13 February 2009, the fulfillment of the Schengen standards at Swiss international airports was being evaluated as a precondition for the abolition of border checks at internal Schengen flights. This Schengen evaluation re-visit was carried out by a team of 15 Member States experts - including the Czech Republic. Its main goal was to verify fulfillment of recommendations arising from previous evaluation in August 2008 which concern various aspects of air border control, especially infrastructure of airports and border control procedure. In case of a positive result of this evaluation, integration of Switzerland into Schengen area will be completed on 29 March 2009, thus concluding process of abolishing border checks launched on 12 December 2008 with lifting border checks on persons at Swiss land borders. The minister of the Interior of the Czech Republic Ivan Langer will inform his colleagues about the findings on the meeting of the JHA which will take place 26.2.2009. 

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