Article 4, Paragraph 2. · Regulation (EU) 2025/1534

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2.From the first day of the progressive start of operations of the EES, each Member State shall start using the EES on entry and exit at one or more border crossing points with, if possible and applicable, a combination of air, land and sea border crossing points, to record and store data of third-country nationals referred to in Article 2(1) and (2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/2226. By the 30th day from the first day of the progressive start of operations of the EES, each Member State shall register in the EES at least 10 % of the estimated number of border crossings for that Member State.During the first 60 days of the progressive start of operations of the EES, Member States may operate the EES without biometric functionalities, and national authorities may create or update individual files without biometric data.