Press Release: Enlargement of the Schengen area to be completed: border controls lifted at airports on 30 March.

On 21 December 2007, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Hungary, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia became part of the Schengen area. On Sunday 30 March 2008 at 0:00, the enlargement process was completed by lifting air border controls between these countries and with the 15 states that were already part of the Schengen system.