Passport Control
Schengen at Copenhagen Airport, Roskilde – in brief
What is Schengen?
Schengen is a treaty providing for the free movement of persons travelling between the Schengen member states. While, in principle, passengers can travel between Schengen countries without showing their passport, control measures will be tightened for passengers arriving from non-Schengen countries. All passengers travelling into and out of the Schengen area must still show their passport.
Which countries have signed the Schengen Treaty?
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Austria
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Belgium
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Czech Republic
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Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Greenland
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Estonia
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Finland, Ålandsøerne
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France, Corsica
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Greece
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Holland, the Netherlands
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Hungary
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Iceland
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Italy, Sicily, Sardinia
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Latvia
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Lithuania
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Luxembourg
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Malta
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Monaco
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Norway (except Svalbard)
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Poland
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Portugal, Madeira, the Azores
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Schwitzerland
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Slovenia
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Slovakia
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Spain, the Canaries, the cities Ceuta and Melilla
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Balearic Islands (Mallorca and Ibiza)
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Sweden
When did Denmark become a Schengen country?
Denmark implemented the Schengen system on 25 March 2001 together with the other Nordic countries.
What does this mean for passengers?
Under Schengen, border control of people travelling between two Schengen countries is abolished. This means that a person travelling from one Schengen country to another will not go through passport control.
However, as a traveller in another Schengen country, you must still carry a passport for purposes of identification.
More about Schengen
Design of the airport for Schengen purposes
Copenhagen Airport has changed its layout so that Schengen and non-Schengen passengers can be kept separate. In practice, this means that a kind of borders will be established inside the terminals – between a Schengen zone and a non-Schengen zone.