On 20 March 2018, FRC Member, Sergi Vazquez Maymir, chaired the panel on “ABC gates: an interoperable solution in border control management” with speakers discussing legal, technical and ethical aspects of ABC -gates and in particular addressing the issues concerning its interoperability with Information Systems, the production of false positives by the e-gates and their potential vulnerability against hacking attempts. The panel was part of the final conference of the ABC4EU project, that had for objective providing a harmonized approach to the development of Automated Border Control (ABC) gates at EU level.