Practical Guide to Schengen Law

Fabian Lutz is Senior Legal Expert, working in the European Commission's DG Migration and Home Affairs. He has been working for the European Commission in Brussels since 1996. He has been responsible for migration policy since 2000 and directly oversaw the elaboration of several pieces of the EU's migration acquis as well as the Schengen acquis covering the field of Legal migration (2001 proposal on economic migration; Directive 2004/114/EC on third country students and Directive 2005/71/EC on third country researchers; 2019 Fitness check on EU legislation on legal migration); Irregular migration (Carriers Liability Directive 2001/51); Return (Return Directive 2008/115/EC; the Commissions October 2015 "Return Handbook") and Schengen (2013 and 2021 amendments of the Schengen Borders Code; 2022 revision of the Schengen Handbook for border guards; 2021 Screening proposal).Next to his work as civil servant, Fabian drafted several publications in which he provided first hand insight and analysis on the files he oversaw. In the 2022-23 academic year, he was detached from the European Commission to the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence for an EU fellowship.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. The development of the Schengen acquis.-  3. Scope of Schengen acquis in 2024.- 4. The territorial scope of Schengen.- 5. Outcome of research interviews with “Schengen veterans”.- 6. Conclusions.- Annex.