Desirous of instituting on an international scale effective methods of controlling the movement of firearms across frontiers;

The measures thus decided on shall be applicable forthwith, shall take account of the interests of all parties concerned and shall not entail frontier controls.

c) »International Convention« will mean the International Convention on the Harmonization of Frontier Controls of Goods, concluded at Geneva on 21 October 1982;

considering the commitments that the Parties assumed with the International Convention on the Harmonisation of Frontier Controls of Goods, concluded in Geneva on 21 October 1982, and

Aware of the need to avoid measures that may hamper legitimate international trade or result in impracticable or unduly onerous frontier controls that conflict with modern goals of freedom of movement of goods and of persons,

The other Member States shall be entitled to exercise at their frontiers or at any point of entry into their territory such controls on persons seeking to enter their territory from the United Kingdom or any territories whose external relations are under its responsibility for the same purposes stated in Article 1 of this Protocol, or from Ireland as long as the provisions of Article 1 of this Protocol apply to Ireland.

The United Kingdom shall be entitled, notwithstanding Articles III-130 and III-265 of the Constitution, any other provision of the Constitution, any measure adopted under the Constitution, or any international agreement concluded by the Union or by the Union and its Member States with one or more third States, to exercise at its frontiers with other Member States such controls on persons seeking to enter the United Kingdom as it may consider necessary for the purpose:

whereas the existence of such frontier controls results from disparities between national requirements in this field;

For this purpose the national authorities of the Schengen States, acting through their departments responsible for external frontiers controls and through liaison officers, in so far as bilateral agreements on the secondment of officials make provision for such duties, are to collect all information on specific problems arising at external frontiers which suggest a dysfunctioning at frontier control level.

Parallel to the forwarding of statistical information each Member State must communicate information on current difficulties in carrying out controls at external frontiers;

Whereas the only purpose of frontier controls of compulsory insurance cover against civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles is to safeguard the interests of persons who may be the victims of accidents caused by such vehicles;

Whereas the Commission Recommendation of 21 June 1968 on control by customs of travellers crossing intra-Community frontiers calls upon Member States to carry out controls on travellers and their motor vehicles only under exceptional circumstances and to remove the physical barriers at customs posts;

The United Kingdom shall be entitled, notwithstanding Article 7a of the Treaty establishing the European Community, any other provision of that Treaty or of the Treaty on European Union, any measure adopted under those Treaties, or any international agreement concluded by the Community or by the Community and its Member States with one or more third States, to exercise at its frontiers with other Member States such controls on persons seeking to enter the United Kingdom as it may consider necessary for the purpose:

whereas, however, it seems desirable, in order to simplify administrative procedure, to provide more flexible arrangements than the use of the T5 control copy, in the case of transactions under the simplified Community transit procedures for carriage by rail or large containers under Articles 412 to 442 of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93, which provides that when a transport operation begins within the Community and is to end outside it, no formalities need to be carried out at the customs office of the frontier station;

Facilitation of frontier controls

International Convention on the harmonization of frontier controls of goods

Controls, referred to in the Annex, performed pursuant to Community or national law in the fields of road and inland waterway transport between Member States shall no longer be performed as frontier-control but solely as part of the normal control procedures applied in a non-discriminatory fashion throughout the territory of a Member State.

For this purpose the national authorities of the Schengen States, acting through their departments responsible for external frontiers controls and through liaison officers, in so far as bilateral agreements on the secondment of officials make provision for such duties, are to collect all information on specific problems arising at external frontiers which suggest a dysfunctioning at frontier control level.

on the elimination of controls performed at the frontiers of Member States in the field of road and inland waterway transport

CONSIDERING that the Contracting Parties have ratified the International Convention on the Harmonization of Frontier Controls of Goods;

Council Regulation (EEC) No 1262/84 of 10 April 1984 concerning the conclusion of the International Convention on the Harmonization of Frontier Controls of Goods

amending Regulation (EEC) No 4060/89 on the elimination of controls performed at the frontiers of Member States in the field of road and inland waterway transport

Parallel to the forwarding of statistical information each Member State must communicate information on current difficulties in carrying out controls at external frontiers;

Council Regulation (EEC) No 4060/89 of 21 December 1989 on the elimination of controls performed at the frontiers of Member States in the field of road and inland waterway transport

whereas Directive 81 /389/EEC (7) established measures for the implementation of Directive 77/489/EEC, and in particular introduced controls at the internal frontiers of the Community;

whereas in connection with the abolition of controls and formalities at the internal frontiers and for reasons of clarity and administrative efficiency, the rules concerned should be redrafted;

Switzerland may perform controls at the frontier to verify permits issued under Annex 6 to the Agreement between the European Communities and the Swiss Confederation on carriage of goods by road and rail.

(b) Switzerland may perform controls at the frontier to verify permits issued under Annex 6 to the Agreement between the European Communities and the Swiss Confederation on carriage of goods by road and rail.

- reduction of rail transport frontier controls and transfer of these controls to the point of embarkation or disembarkation in accordance with the Convention of 20 May 1987 between the Community and Switzerland and between the EFTA countries on a common transit procedure,

Council Regulation (EEC) No 4060/89 of 21 December 1989 on the elimination of controls performed at the frontiers of Member States in the field of road and inland waterway transport (OJ No L 390, 30.12.1989, p. 18).

Council Regulation (EEC) No 3356/91 of 7 November 1991 amending Regulation (EEC) No 4060/89 on the elimination of controls performed at the frontiers of Member States in the field of road and inland waterway transport

Whereas, after 31 December 1992, the maintenance by Member States of quantitative restrictions would be incompatible with the single market, which entails the abolition of goods controls at the Community's internal frontiers;

They shall be carried out in compliance with the provisions of the International Convention on the Harmonisation of Frontier Controls of Goods, in particular Annex 4 thereof, as approved by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1262/84 (*).

'control' means any check, inspection, verification or formality performed at the frontiers of Member States by the national authorities, which signifies a stop or a restriction on the free movement of the vehicles or vessels concerned.

Whereas such controls, verifications and inspections may be performed with equal efficacy throughout the territory of the Member States concerned and crossing the frontier should not therefore be a pretext for carrying out such operations,

The competent authorities shall carry out control measurements of the quality of the waters, jointly where this is expedient, in areas where the waters form or cross the frontier between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Austria.

intended for spreading under the control of the competent authorities on land forming part of or belonging to the same holding, whether separated or not, located on both sides of the frontier between Member States and within a distance of approximately 20 kilometres.

whereas in connection with the suppression of controls and formalities at the internal frontiers and on the occasion of further amendments to Regulation (EEC) No 569/88, and for reasons of clarity and administrative efficiency, the rules concerned should be redrafted;

increasing the productivity of the terminals through technological improvements and accelerated procedures and the reduction of waiting times; controls and formalities affecting trains at international frontiers or combined transport terminals must not take longer than those applicable to road transport; customs controls and formalities should take no more than one hour;

The measures pursuant to paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not involve the application of internal frontier controls within the Community, but solely controls which are performed as part of the normal control procedures applied in a non-discriminatory fashion throughout the territory of the Community.

Council Decision of 18 September 1989 accepting on behalf of the Community the Resolution of the Inland Transport Committee of the Economic Commission for Europe concerning technical assistance measures for the implementation of the International Convention on the Harmonization of Frontier Controls of Goods

whereas in practice, under their laws incorporating the provisions of those Agreements into national law or, where they are not contracting parties to either Agreement, under their national law governing these types of international carriage, they normally carry out these controls and verifications at their frontiers;

Controls performed pursuant to Community law or national law in the event of transfers of the explosives governed by this Article shall no longer be performed as internal frontier controls but solely as part of the normal control procedures applied in a non-discriminatory fashion throughout the territory of the Community.

- implement law on the Romanian state frontiers including the merger of the Border Guard and the Border Police; speed up the demilitarisation of the bodies subordinated to the Ministry of the Interior; strengthen border controls to prevent illegal immigration and to enable full participation in the Schengen Information System,

Pursuant to Article 17 of the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Austria on transit of goods by road and rail (referred to as 'the transit agreement`), Austria may perform controls at the frontier to verify compliance with the ecopoint system as referred to in Articles 15 and 16 of the transit agreement.

This Protocol shall not prevent the application of greater facilities which two or more Contracting Parties grant to each other, nor the right of the Contracting Parties to apply their own legislation to controls and formalities at their frontiers, on condition that this does not reduce in any way the facilities deriving from this Protocol.

(a) Pursuant to Article 17 of the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Austria on transit of goods by road and rail (referred to as 'the transit agreement`), Austria may perform controls at the frontier to verify compliance with the ecopoint system as referred to in Articles 15 and 16 of the transit agreement.

The measures shall be applied in such a way as not to impede the free movement of goods or services between the Contracting Parties, notably as regards the administration and collection of tolls or road-use charges, the absence of controls or systematic verification at the frontiers between the Contracting Parties and the absence of excessive formalities.

All Contracting Parties concerned may perform controls at the frontier to verify compliance with the quota arrangements referred to in Article 16 of the transit agreement which are not replaced by the ecopoint system and with quota arrangements covered by bilateral agreements between Austria on the one hand and Finland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland on the other.