Fishing boats and leisure craft
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.
Terms explained
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Leisure craft
These are vessels used mainly for sport or recreation.
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e-Borders
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.