To ensure that EU security is maintained across the EU’s external borders, a coordinated and phased approach to the rollout of ICS2 version 2 is needed, as described in the “Transition from ICS2 version 1 to version 2” section. The change affects airlines flying direct flights from third countries to member states exempted from joining the central system ICS2 Release 2 until 30 June 2023 (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, France, Greece, Croatia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland , Romania, Sweden).
ICS2 version 2 will be published by 1 March 2023, by which time EU Member States (including Norway and Switzerland) should be ready to implement their respective ICS2 National Entry Systems (NES). However, some EU Member States will not be able to connect to ICS2 version 2 on 1 March 2023 and have requested a statutory exemption from this requirement. The EU Commission granted an exemption to twelve EU member states until June 30, 2023.
Source: tra.org
