The Ministry of the Interior has issued an order to extend the restrictions on entering Spain by air for passengers from countries outside the European Union and the Schengen Area as well as to adapt these limitations to the evolution of the pandemic in the different countries.
The order, signed by the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, and published this Friday in the Official State Gazette (BOE), extends the restrictions on entry by air until May 31.
In addition, the order adapts these restrictions for entry through air borders to the evolution of the pandemic in third countries. Specifically, as of May 1, travellers from India, Brazil, South Africa, Botswana, Comoros, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Peru and Colombia, with or without stopovers, will only be able to enter the national territory if they are “people residing in Spain or Andorra, or Spanish citizens and their spouse or partner with whom they maintain a union analogous to the conjugal one registered in a public registry, and those ascendants and descendants who live in their care, provided they travel with or to meet them.”
They may also do so if they are “transport personnel, seafarers and the aeronautical personnel necessary to carry out air transport activities”, “diplomatic, consular, international, military, civil protection and humanitarian organisation personnel, in the exercise of their functions “or” persons who document reasons of force majeure or situation of need, or whose entry is allowed for humanitarian reasons “.
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This measure has been adopted with the aim of “facing the risk derived from new variants and the epidemiological situation suffered by some third countries” and is adopted in line with the measures adopted by the Ministry of Health to establish the quarantine measure for the people arriving, with or without intermediate stops, from Brazil, South Africa, Botswana, Comoros, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Peru and Colombia.
The Interior Order is also established in line with the decision of the Ministry of Health to establish quarantine conditions for people traveling, with or without stopovers, from India as of May 1.
“In order to accompany these measures and to facilitate the control of their compliance, it is appropriate to limit the categories of people exempt from the generic restriction applicable to these countries,” says the text of the Ministry of the Interior published today in the BOE.
Entry restrictions by air for passengers from countries outside the European Union and the Schengen Area have been extended and adapted to the evolution of the pandemic in different countries. The last extension, which came into effect on March 26, expired at midnight this Friday, April 30.
All these restrictions are adopted in accordance with the European Union recommendations for the temporary restriction of non-essential travel to residents of countries outside the EU and the Schengen Area.
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