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Migration and Home Affairs

Advance passenger information (API)

Definition

Information concerning the passengers whom carriers will transport to an authorised border crossing point through which these persons will enter the territory of an Schengen Member State, which carriers are obliged to transmit, by end of check-in, at the request of the authorities responsible for carrying out checks on persons at external borders.

Source

Derived by EMN from Art.3 of Council Directive 2004/82/EC (Directive on the obligation of carriers to communicate passenger data)

Translations

  • BG: Предварителна информация за пътниците
  • CS: předem předané údaje o cestujících
  • DE: Vorabinformationen über die beförderte Person / Vorabdaten über die beförderte Person / Vorab-Passagier-Informationssystem
  • EL: εκ των προτέρων διαβίβαση πληροφοριών σχετικά με επιβάτες (API) (EL); δεδομένα API (CY)
  • EN: advance passenger information (API)
  • ES: información anticipada del pasajero
  • ET: reisijate eelandmed
  • FI: lentomatkustajien ennakkotiedot / API-tiedot
  • FR: informations préalables sur les passagers
  • GA: Réamhfhaisnéis faoi Phaisinéirí
  • HR: prethodno dostavljeni podaci o putnicima
  • HU: előzetes utasinformáció
  • IT: informazioni anticipate sui passeggeri
  • LT: išankstinė informacija apie keleivius
  • LV: iepriekšēja pasažieru informācija
  • MT: Tagħrif bil-quddiem dwar il-passiġġieri
  • NL: vooraf te verstrekken passagiersgegevens
  • PT: Sistema Avançado de Informação sobre Passageiros
  • RO: informații prealabile referitoare la pasageri (API)
  • SK: vopred poskytované informácie o cestujúcich (API)
  • SL: predhodni podatki o potnikih
  • SV: förhandsuppgifter om passagerare
  • NO: Forhåndsvarsel om passasjerer (b); Førehandsvarsel om reisande (n)
  • KA: მგზავრის წინასწარი მონაცემები (API)
  • UK: попередня інформація про пасажира (API)
  • HY: ուղեւորի մասին նախապես տրված տվյալներ

Synonym(s)

  • advance passenger data
  • API
  • APIS
  • Advance Passenger Information System

Note(s)

This information comprises: the number and type of travel document used, nationality, full names, the date of birth, the border crossing point of entry into the territory of the Schengen Member States, mode of transport, departure and arrival time of the transportation, total number of passengers carried on that transport, the initial point of embarkation.