Procedure

Airlines and shipping companies must send to the Spanish Ministry of the Interior the passenger and crew information (API) for flights departing from outside the Schengen area and arriving or in transit to Spanish territory.

At present, one of the possible ways of sending API data is through SITA services, since in Spain there was a contract with this company for this purpose which was not extended due to lack of approval from SITA. The contract expired last May 2018 and has not been renewed.

The Spanish Ministry of the Interior cannot start a new contracting procedure until next year and the same will depend on the existing budget

The companies will send the following information of all passengers to be made available to the National Police and the Civil Guard:

• Number and type of the document with which the passenger identifies himself/herself during transport.
• Nationality of the passenger.
• Name and Surname of the person to whom the identification document corresponds.
• Date of birth appearing on the passenger's identification document.
• Point of origin of the route of the transport.
• Destination point to which the transport will arrive.
• Dates of departure and arrival of the transport from the origin of the journey to its destination.
• Identification code of the company sending the data or "Carrier Code" that identifies the company.
• The identification number of the transport.

They are of two types: XML or UN EDIFACT. You can access the documents of both formats below:

• XML document: XML
• PDF document explaining the use of the UN-EDIFACT Format: UN-EDIFACT

The addresses for submitting API data for each method are:

• SITA: Contact SITA by email in advance.
• ARINC: Contact by phone: 933 74 07 17
• SFTP: We will inform you later if necessary.
• Web Service: Web Service Definition
• Web Application: Access to the Web Application