As announced in December 2012, the Federal Police and the Federal Ministry of the Interior plan to jointly develop automated border control using the EasyPASS lanes (eGates). Following a successful pilot project at Frankfurt Airport now about 100 eGates will be installed in the five busiest airports in Germany: Frankfurt, Munich, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Berlin.
Thanks to the nationwide introduction of EasyPASS, border control has been accelerated. All adult citizens of the EU Member States, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland, who have an electronic passport, can use the EasyPASS lanes on a voluntary basis without prior registration. EasyPASS users will benefit directly from the automated control procedures offered by the eGates; moreover, the other travellers will gain from the shorter queues.