Queries
Article 5
1. In order to send the verification query, the carrier shall provide the following traveller data: (a) surname (family name); first name or names (given names); (b) date of birth, sex and nationality; (c) the type and number of the travel document and the three letter code of the issuing country of the travel document; (d) the date of expiry of the validity of the travel document; (e) the scheduled day of arrival at the border of the Member State of entry; (f) one of the following: (i) the scheduled Member State of entry; (ii) where possible to identify the scheduled Member State of entry, an airport in the Member State of entry; (g) the details (local date and time of scheduled departure, identification number where available or other means to identify the transport) of the means of transportation used to access the territory of a Member State. 2. For the purposes of providing the information referred to in paragraph 1, points (a) to (d), carriers shall be allowed to scan the machine-readable zone of the travel document. 3. Where the passenger is exempt from the scope of Regulation (EU) 2018/1240 in accordance with Article 2 of that Regulation or is in airport transit, the carrier shall be able to specify it in the verification query. 4. Carriers shall be able to send a verification query for one or more passengers. The carrier interface shall include the reply referred to in Article 6 for each passenger included in the query.