Travel to France, Checks & Paperwork Docs Requirements??

gasgas said:
To bring this up to date, from 2024 (but it doesn't say when in 2024, it was originally 2023) you will need an ETIAS before you go or you won't be allowed in. This costs €7 and will be valid for 3 years. As usual there will be web sites charging you lots of drinking vouchers for doing just what you can do yourself, so make sure you use the official web site which is
https://travel-europe.europa.eu/etias_en
But for the rest of this year, just get in the van and go. With your covid certificate, ferry ticket, passport, health insurance, and rubber dinghy with outboard to get back in case your van beraks down.
Click to expand...
No Covid Certificate or Rubber Dinghy required. Original Implementation Date was well before 2023 [2019?], but latest projection is post August 2024 [think November has been mentioned]

Steve
 
Val54 said:
No, both out bounds this year from Portsmouth, thorough check of the van and lockers but zero interest in fridge or freezer compartment 👍👍
Click to expand...
Went through Dover nearly 3 weeks ago .
Apart from me driving past French window (it was first thing) all ok .
Passport check only , and dog
 
Val54 said:
No, both out bounds this year from Portsmouth, thorough check of the van and lockers but zero interest in fridge or freezer compartment 👍👍
Click to expand...
Graham @GMJ posted the definitive answer on the Food Inspection some months ago [mid 2022'ish?]. The EU has accepted that the intention of the Inspections of Foodstuffs was to minimise the possibility of their entering the Food Chain without have sanitary and phytosanitary certification. With the greatest will in the world, no EU Food Retailer is going to be hovering in the Docks looking to acquire one's half eaten Sainsbury's Pasty, or open bottle of Orange Juice that's stopping the orphaned Scotch Egg in the fridge making a bid for freedom ... As long as it's for personal use, there's no problem [although I think the UK Gov Travel Advice Notes still refer to not being able to carry foodstuffs [and, IIRC, the Windsor Agreement recognising the validity of taking in one's own food for personal consumption]

Steve
 
gasgas said:
To bring this up to date, from 2024 (but it doesn't say when in 2024, it was originally 2023) you will need an ETIAS before you go or you won't be allowed in. This costs €7 and will be valid for 3 years. As usual there will be web sites charging you lots of drinking vouchers for doing just what you can do yourself, so make sure you use the official web site which is
https://travel-europe.europa.eu/etias_en
But for the rest of this year, just get in the van and go. With your covid certificate, ferry ticket, passport, health insurance, and rubber dinghy with outboard to get back in case your van breaks down.
Click to expand...

To bring it even more up to date, it looks as though the ETIAS will not be in until 2025!

etias.com

ETIAS Implementation Likely Delayed to 2025: Unforeseen Issues and Olympics Complications

The European Travel Information and Authorization System (ETIAS), initially scheduled to be launched in 2021, has likely faced yet another…
etias.com etias.com
 
since covid we use the tunnel which has only checks boarding the train but not at the other end just drive straight on the motorway on arrival & another big plus you don't get the big holdup's like the ferry .so the extra cost is worth it to us plus i believe the food on p&o ferry's i am told now the staff are foreign is shyt . cheyenne
 
The official EU Website is no longer showing proposed implementation date, or even a year, so any other reports are only speculative. The latest update on progress was 8 September 2023

ETIAS News Release 8 Sep 23

Steve
 
  • Thank You
Reactions: GMJ
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who viewed this discussion (Total:0)

Back
Top