Align Border Quarantine rule with EU regulations. Track essential travellers and turn back non-essential tourists.

The EU only requires a 14-day quarantine for those arriving from outside the EU. Further restrictions are left up to member states, some of which have imposed restrictions on travel between regions. Scotland should adhere to this regulation, so not imposing a quarantine on arrivals from EU states, but only on those from outside the EU. The Scottish Government rule to halt all non-essential trips should remain in force, which will prevent cross-border tourist traffic from abroad and from England/Eire. This requires control of travellers by airlines before boarding to inbound flights. All arrivals though should be subject to some sort of registration and tracking system for the first 14 days, including those crossing by road and rail from England or by ship from Northern Ireland. The rule for who to exclude from cross-border traffic must be simple to apply: only business travellers and close-family visits should be permitted provided separate accomodation advance bookings or provision can be proved at the border, but no quarantine should be imposed while in that accomosation provided the travellers are not known to be ill.
This means police controls on the cross-border roads and collection of information from passangers on trains leaving Newcastle or Carlisle, respectively ships from Northern Ireland. It will mean major public information campaigns in the UK, and all by all airlines flying internationally to Scotland, who must be made subject to a public duty to inform potential passangeres before booking of the Scottish Governnment rules. The airlines must be made responsible for not allowing those to board who would be refused entry.

The 14 day quarantine regulation is too stringent for international arrivals from countries which can be trusted to have a functioning public health surveillance system in the pandemic. What is important is that tracking and tracing can function also for international travellers, and they are restricted so that tourists are excluded so long as the pandemic is not brought under control. Business travel must *not* be restricted so long as it is essential for business purposes. Close family visits should be possible so long as the visiting relatives can stay in isolated property. A blanket quarantine rule applying also to the EU is disriminatory and could be subject to court action: Scotland is still until at least the end of 2020 in the EU and should not go counter to EU law. It should not follow UK pre-emptive Brexit political posturing.