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ESSENTIAL TRAVEL Part A Categories of persons referred to in Article 21a(4): 1. healthcare professionals, health researchers and elderly care professionals; 2. frontier workers; 3. transport personnel; 4. diplomats, staff of international organisations and people invited by international organisations whose physical presence is required for the well-functioning of these organisations, military personnel and humanitarian aid workers and civil protection personnel in the exercise of their functions; 5. passengers in transit; 6. passengers travelling for imperative family reasons; 7. seafarers; 8. persons in need of international protection or needing to enter for other humanitarian reasons. Part B Categories of persons referred to in Article 21a(5): 1. children in early childhood education and care and pupils in education in a neighbouring country and their guardians who accompany them, who cross the border for the purpose of receiving such education, as well as students or persons travelling for educational purposes; 2. seasonal workers, including food-producing workers;

3. persons travelling for compelling reasons of animal care or for measures necessary for agriculture and forestry in individual cases; 4. highly qualified workers as well as key and scientific staff whose employment is necessary from an economic, societal and security perspective and whose work cannot be postponed or performed abroad; 5. personnel of the public authorities for defence, public policy, public health and national security, i.e. police staff, border police, immigration, public health, civil protection departments, etc. or representatives of law enforcement authorities, if the travel is related to the performance of official duties, including personnel responsible for operating and maintaining critical infrastructure; 6. fishermen and persons performing work or providing services on ships or offshore mining and drilling platforms, based on an employment relationship other than a maritime employment contract; 7. persons entering the Member State for the purpose of receiving essential medical services, including occupants of emergency vehicles;

8. spouses (married, civil partner, cohabiting partner) and children of an essential traveller, including third-country nationals travelling for family reunification; 9. third-country nationals travelling to respond to a summons by a judicial authority; 10. persons in possession of an International Press Card issued by the International Federation for Journalists; 11. care-dependent persons travelling to their care-takers.