Testing, Testing, . . .

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Taken from UKBA site http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/aboutus/workingwithus/transportindustry/ebordersrequires/maritime/fishingleisure/

This page explains how we will communicate with owners of fishing boats and leisure craft who make international journeys, and when we plan to start telling them about the requirements they will have to meet for providing information to the e-Borders programme.

We have already started to communicate with this section of the industry at working groups and events, including the Royal Yachting Association on 18 March 2008. We will continue to communicate with this area of shipping in the coming months. We aim to start testing a method of operating e-Borders with owners of fishing boats and leisure craft from 2010.

There isn't actually any explanation of how it will work on the page. I await the test in 2010 with interest. Will they bother to tell anyone they are carrying out tests? Or is it only the input & output of the silly computer system they will be testing?

Their own definition of e-borders doesn't mention leisure craft, & quotes a 2014 implementation date.

TERMS EXPLAINED X
e-Borders is the name of a programme we have set up to introduce electronic border control to the United Kingdom by 2014. It will collect and analyse passenger and crew information provided electronically by carriers (airlines, rail and shipping companies) before travel starts on all journeys to and from the United Kingdom.

 

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I'm waiting for the government to introduce an "e-life" program, then I won't have to actually go anywhere or do anything. Life will be a lot easier...