Child's passport question / Spain

[srebbe64]

I'm off on holiday at the weekend for a week - sunny Tenerife (I hope!)

Anyway, we've got four kids and their passports last for just 5 years (as opposed to 10 years like adults' passports).

With some countries it's stated that the passports must have at least 6 months before they expire. I've just checked the dates of all my family's passports and my youngest daughter's passport is due to expire in a couple of months.

As such, does anyone know whether Tenerife (Spain, I suppose) has any rules about passport expiry dates?

[staceyb]

my brother flew to lanzarote on an expired passport a couple of years ago, well actually it expired while he was there and unfortunately they let him back in.

[SGirl]

Does it matter if the country in question is in the EU? My passport expired 2 days after returning from Germany once. It was commented on at Passport Control in Germany, but they couldn't stop me travelling.