Greenland

(DENMARK)

Jan Mayen
(NORWAY)

Council of the
European Union
Reykjavík
ICELAND

Movements to and from Ceuta and Melilla,

the Faroe Islands and Greenland are
subject to specific rules.

THE SCHENGEN AREA

The borders with Andorra, Monaco, San
Marino and Vatican City are the subject of
specific control arrangements under national
or international law.
Faroe Islands
(DENMARK)
SWEDEN FINLAND

The whole Schengen acquis applies to the European


NORWAY
territories of the following EU Member States: Belgium,
Oslo Helsinki
Czechia, Germany, Estonia, Greece, Spain (including
Tallinn
the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands), France,
Stockholm
ESTONIA
Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta,
the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal (including Azores
Madeira and the Azores), Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland (PORTUGAL)
Riga
and Sweden. LATVIA

DENMARK Azores N
D
 enmark is an EU Member State that applies the whole (PORTUGAL) A
IRELAND Copenhagen LITHUANIA E
Schengen acquis as international law, except for the Dublin
C
measures determining those third countries whose Vilnius O
nationals must have a visa when crossing the external C N
THE I A
borders of Member States and the measures concerning NETHERLANDS T E
Amsterdam N C
the introduction of a uniform format for visas. Berlin A O
Azores
Warsaw LC
(PORTUGAL)
I celand, Norway (except Svalbard), Switzerland and TI
Liechtenstein are associated States (not EU Member
Brussels
GERMANY
POLAND AT
BELGIUM
N
States), which take part in preparing the Schengen acquis A
LUXEMBOURG L
acts that are subsequently adopted by the EU institutions. Paris Luxembourg Prague T
These four countries apply the Schengen acquis acts after A Madeira
CZECHIA (PORTUGAL)
their adoption through association agreements. SLOVAKIA
Vienna Bratislava
Bulgaria, Azores
Romania and Croatia are EU Member States Madeira C
(PORTUGAL)
that apply the whole Schengen acquis, except for the
FRANCE Bern AUSTRIA Budapest (PORTUGAL) I
Vaduz

SWITZERLAND
LIECHTENSTEIN
T
part concerning the absence of internal border controls HUNGARY N
and visas. These States are connected to the Schengen SLOVENIA
ROMANIA
A
Information System (SIS); Croatia, although connected
Ljubljana
Zagreb L
to SIS, is not obliged to refuse entry to persons for
CROATIA
T
whom non-admission alerts have been issued and
Bucharest
A
MONACO
cannot issue such alerts itself. These three Member ANDORRA
SAN MARINO

States are awaiting a Council Decision to set the date by Canary Islands
PORTUGAL ITALY BULGARIA (SPAIN)
when the whole Schengen acquis (opening of internal Madrid
Sofia
borders) is to be applied. Lisbon
SPAIN Rome
VATICAN CITY
Canary Islands
Balearic Islands
C
 yprus is an EU Member State that applies the Schengen (SPAIN)
(SPAIN)
acquis except for the part concerning the SIS, the
absence of internal border controls and visas. It does not
Madeira
yet have access to the SIS (PORTUGAL) GREECE

Ceuta (SPAIN)
I reland is an EU Member State that is authorised to apply
Melilla Athens
the part of the Schengen acquis concerning police and (SPAIN)
judicial cooperation in criminal matters. Ireland has not
as yet put into effect the part of the Schengen acquis in CYPRUS Nicosia

which it has asked to participate. MALTA Valletta

Canary Islands
(SPAIN)
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Canary Islands