Schengena-area border controls will be
reintroduced from tomorrow, May 10, until May 30 to ensure the
"orderly execution" of a G7 finance summit in Bari May 11-13 and
the G7 summit in Taormina May 26-27, official sources said
Tuesday.
The controls were set to come back into force on the French
border at Ventimiglia and Italy's other border crossings with
Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia, they said.
Civil aviation authority ENAC has already urged travellers to
get to the airport earlier as their ID documents will take
longer to be checked.
ENAC hosted a meeting on the issue Monday with officials from
the interior ministry, representatives of the Assaeroporti
airport management group, the Italian Board of Airline
Representatives (IBAR), and officials from the International Air
Transport Association (IATA).
ENAC has already asked Italian and foreign airlines to inform
their passengers, both on their websites and via all other
possible means, and has called on the air transport sector to
provide "collaboration and responsibility in applying the most
suitable measures to cut to the minimum the impact of the
reintroduction of passport controls, so that air transport
activities may be carried out with promptness and regular
execution of operations".
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED © Copyright ANSA
