art_11__para_3

3. No entry or exit stamp shall be affixed: to the travel documents of Heads of State and dignitaries whose arrival has been officially announced in advance through diplomatic channels; to pilots’ licences or the certificates of aircraft crew members; to the travel documents of seamen who are present within the territory of a Member State only when their ship puts in and in the area of the port of call; to the travel documents of crew and passengers of cruise ships who are not subject to border checks in accordance with point 3.2.3 of Annex VI; to documents enabling nationals of Andorra, Monaco and San Marino to cross the border; to the travel documents of crews of passengers and goods trains on international connections; to the travel documents of nationals of third countries who present a residence card provided for in Directive 2004/38/EC. Exceptionally, at the request of a third-country national, insertion of an entry or exit stamp may be dispensed with if insertion might cause serious difficulties for that person. In that case, entry or exit shall be recorded on a separate sheet indicating that person’s name and passport number. That sheet shall be given to the third-country national. The competent authorities of the Member States may keep statistics of such exceptional cases and may provide those statistics to the Commission.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-14 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.