Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2024/2662 of 14 October 2024 establishing a standard EU Emergency Travel Document application form and amending Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/2452

1 The standard EU Emergency Travel Document application form shall be as set out in Annex I.

2 During the consultation provided for by Article 4 of Directive (EU) 2019/997 prior to the issuance of an EU Emergency Travel Document, the assisting Member State shall ask the Member State of nationality to provide information as to where the applicant is to return the EU Emergency Travel Document to be issued upon arrival at the final destination, such as: (a) the authority of the Member State of nationality responsible for issuing travel documents; (b) an embassy or consulate of the Member State of nationality; (c) border officials of the Member State of nationality.

3 The Member State of nationality shall provide the information referred to in paragraph 2 to the assisting Member State. The assisting Member State shall communicate that information to the applicant when issuing the EU ETD.

Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/2452 is amended as follows: (1) in Article 1, the following paragraphs are added: ‘The rules on the filling in and affixing of uniform EU ETD stickers shall be as set out in Part III of the Annex. The rules on different bodies having responsibility for producing uniform EU ETD forms and stickers shall be as set out in Part IV of the Annex.’; (2) point 3.8 of Part I of the Annex to Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/2452 is replaced by the text in Annex II to this Decision; (3) the text in Annex III to this Decision is added as Part III of the Annex to Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/2452; (4) the text in Annex IV to this Decision is added as Part IV of the Annex to Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/2452.

This Decision shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.