(1) With a view to the progressive establishment of an area of freedom, security and justice, the Treaty establishing the European Community provides both for the adoption of measures aimed at ensuring the free movement of persons, in conjunction with flanking measures relating to external border controls, asylum and immigration, and for the adoption of measures relating to asylum, immigration and safeguarding the rights of third country nationals.
(1) Da bi se postopoma vzpostavilo območje svobode, varnosti in pravice, Pogodba o ustanovitvi Evropske skupnosti predvideva sprejetje ukrepov za zagotavljanje prostega pretoka oseb skupaj s spremljajočimi ukrepi, povezanimi s kontrolo na zunanjih mejah, azilom in priseljevanjem, in sprejetje ukrepov, povezanih z azilom, priseljevanjem in varovanjem pravic državljanov tretjih držav.