In order to ensure a smooth launch of the EES, to facilitate its timely roll-out in all Member States, to provide Member States with the necessary flexibility to start using the EES within a clearly defined period and to facilitate technical and operational adjustments when starting to operate the EES, it is necessary to lay down rules for the progressive start of operations of the EES, during which Member States should be able to choose a phased roll-out of the EES. To ensure that those adjustments take account of potential travel flows and seasonal peaks, while taking into consideration that the progressive start of operations of the EES could also have some impact for the Member States in terms of increased workload at border crossing points, such a progressive start of operations should have a limited duration of 180 days.
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