There are four entries. That is not an oversight. In a pre-launch subject the volume of coverage is enormous and the volume of actual change is small, and most of what circulates is a restatement of a position that has not moved. We do not log restatements.
Entries
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7 July 2026
The EU stops publishing an ETIAS launch window
The ETIAS section pages no longer state a start date or a quarter. Press reporting the same month said a delay was coming. Neither of those is an announcement, and the difference matters.
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10 April 2026
The Entry/Exit System becomes fully operational
The phased deployment that began in October 2025 completed across all Schengen countries. This is the one border change on this site that affects travel today.
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12 October 2025
The Entry/Exit System begins its phased rollout
Biometric registration started at a limited set of border crossings and expanded from there over roughly 180 days.
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16 July 2025
The ETIAS fee is set at EUR 20
A delegated act replaced the fee in the 2018 regulation. Sources still quoting the original figure are reading the unamended text, and many still are.
The launch window, and what happened to it
Three of the six items on the legacy version of this page reported that a launch window still stood. In March 2025 a formal endorsement of a revised timeline, in January 2026 a restatement that it was on track, and in early 2026 another. None of them changed anything, and repeating them here would give a reader the impression of momentum that did not exist.
The relevant history in one paragraph. A revised implementation timeline was endorsed in 2025, and the portal then described operations beginning in a named quarter. Through the first half of 2026 that description was repeated rather than revised. It is no longer on the ETIAS section pages, and what has replaced it is a commitment to give notice: The European Union will inform about the specific date for the start of ETIAS several months prior to its launch.
We do not repeat the quarter here, even in the past tense. Launch timing has one home on this site and it is the launch status tracker, which sets out every wording still in circulation, labelled, including the two places a window is still written down. This hub records that the change happened and sends you there for what is true now.
What we did not log, and why
One further legacy item reported a figure for the number of unauthorised ETIAS websites identified, attributed to Frontex. We could not retrieve any Frontex publication carrying that figure this session. Our rule is that a scam figure is only stated with a Frontex publication cited, so it is not an entry and the number does not appear anywhere on this site. The behaviour it describes is real and is covered by pattern on avoiding ETIAS scams; the count is not something we can stand behind.
How entries here are maintained
Each entry renders its fact from the same data layer as every other page, with the source type shown. Entries carry expiry dates like everything else here, so an entry describing a live situation fails our build once its underlying value is due for rechecking. An archive that quietly stops being true is the specific failure this hub exists to avoid, and it is what happened to the page it replaces.
The method in full is on sources and method.
Last verified 10 September 2026. How we verify