ENTRY, TRANSIT AND DEPARTURE OF PASSENGERS AND CREW

A list of the applicable rules can be consulted in section GEN 1.6. In the sections below, a descriptive summary is offered to help airspace users, although if there is any discrepancy, the Rule will prevail over the content of the AIP. The content of this AIP section does not fulfil the quality requirements.

IMMIGRATION/EMIGRATION REQUIREMENTS FOR PASSENGERS

1. Control of persons

Immigration/emigration requirements in accordance with the origin or destination area of flights are as follows:

States that apply the Schengen Agreement

The Schengen Agreement is effective in the following countries: Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Slovenia, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Netherlands, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Sweden and Switzerland.

Application of the agreement abolishes passengers' inspection inside the borders of the above mentioned states.

As for air traffic concerns, it implies that passengers from flights between the above mentioned states (SCHENGEN SPACE) are not submitted to passport control (immigration/ emigration).

The Schengen Agreement affects both public and restricted aerodromes.

All information related to the Schengen Agreement, affecting aircraft operators and airport users in general, may be obtained directly at each airport, or from:

Rest of States

The outer borders of states applying the Schengen Agreement can only be crossed by the frontier passages entitled to such effect (Air frontiers see AD 1.3).

Flights coming from or leaving to states where the Schengen Agreement does not apply (rest of EU member states and rest of the world States) will be subject to a control of persons (immigration/emigration).

2. Control of crew

Holders of a pilot licence or of a crew membership card in accordance with those defined in Annex 9 of the Agreement on Civil Aviation, dated 7 September 1994, will be exempted from presenting a passport or visa, provided that, while on duty:

• They remain at the airport where the aircraft has stopped over.

• They remain at the destination airport.

• They remain within the airport territorial demarcation, or

• They leave the airport to head solely for another airport located within the territory of the contracting party.

CUSTOMS REQUIREMENTS

According to the origin or destination of flights, customs requirements are:

1. European Union (EU)

Hand and checked-in luggage control and formalities are abolished for passengers in flights between EU states unless the intracommunity flight passengers come from a third country.

2. Rest of the world

Any luggage that, having been checked-in at an airport not belonging to the EU, is transferred to an aircraft undertaking an intracommunity flight can only be dispatched at international community airports (see AD 1.3).

With regards to customs control, luggage or articles belonging to disembarking passengers shall be released immediately except for those selected by the customs authorities for inspection. Such baggage will be dispatched on the basis of the passengers' oral declaration.

When appropriate, in accordance with customs regulations, payment of customs charges and the deposit thereof should be made in legal Spanish currency and at the official rate of exchange.

No customs formalities are normally required on departure. However, money or foreign currency shall not be allowed to be taken out of Spain if it exceeds the provisions laid down in the Exchange Control legislation. With reference to works of art, archaeology, ethnography, antiques, etc., special authorisations shall be required.

When it has been confirmed that a luggage includes articles which are likely to be considered as “commercial expeditions” due to their entity or quantity, these articles should only be allowed to leave the country under special regulations and with the appropriate authorisation issued by the trade authorities, if such authorisation is required.

3. Customs requirements for crew members

Luggage or articles belonging to disembarking crew shall be released immediately except for those selected by the customs authorities for inspection. Such luggage will be cleared on the basis of the oral declaration of the crew.

HEALTH REQUIREMENTS

1. Departures, traffic or arrivals

The pilot in command or his official representative, when landing at the first aerodrome within a territory, shall fill in and submit to the airport health authorities the health part of the General Aircraft Declaration, in the cases established by the authorities, according to the International Health Regulations model.

The pilot in command or his official representative shall provide all data required by the health authorities related to the health conditions during the flight.

Any aircraft coming from an airport located within an area where malaria or any other mosquito transmitted disease exists, will be subject to insect pests clearing.

The airport health authorities may require the health inspection of the aircraft, containers and persons arriving on an international flight.

Upon the arrival of an aircraft, the health authorities may order the disembarking and isolation of any infected person, as well as to keep under surveillance anyone suspicious of being infected.

The entry or exit of corpses will be notified to the health authorities in order to carry out the established legal proceedings.

Any hand luggage containing more than 1 kg in weight of products of animal origin must comply with the veterinary regulations in force within the EU.

2. Relevant legislation

• Strasbourg Agreement on the Transfer of Corpses, of 26 October 1973, instrument of ratification (published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) 13-05-92).

• Decreto of 14 July 1950. Foreign Health. Aviation Industry Regulations (published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) 07-12-50).

• International Health Regulations, dated 25 July 1969 (published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) 18-02-74). Reviewed by the 58th Health World Assembly that took place in Geneva on 23 May 2005 (published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) 12-03-2008).

• Reglamento Orgánico de Sanidad Exterior, dated 7 September 1934 (published in Gaceta 19-9-34).

• Reglamento de Policía Sanitaria Mortuoria, Real Decreto 2263/1974, dated July 20th (published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) 17-08-74). Issued in accordance with Art. 27, on the moving of corpses considered as ordinary interments (published in the Resolución of 21 November 1975).

• Real Decreto 1418/1986, dated 13 June, on tasks of the Ministerio de Sanidad, Consumo y Bienestar Social in Foreign Health issues (published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) 10-07-86), as well as the correction of errors therein (published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) 12-08-86).

PRIOR NOTIFICATION AND REQUEST FOR PERMISSIONS

See GEN 1.4.