POLICIES ON BORDER CHECKS, ASYLUM AND IMMIGRATION

In order to facilitate trade between them, the Contracting Parties shall simplify border controls and formalities.

At common border crossings, the Customs administrations concerned shall, whenever possible, operate joint controls.

In order to accelerate border crossing of goods and to improve customs controls, a control document may be introduced at individual border crossing points.

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.

6 Parties shall strengthen co-operation among border control agencies by, inter alia, establishing and maintaining direct channels of communication.

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 decision to be taken by the Council to remove controls at internal borders after it has verified that the necessary conditions to that effect have been met;

TAKING INTO ACCOUNT the need of the Member States to ensure effective controls at their external borders, in cooperation with third countries where appropriate,

(a) justice and home affairs (strengthening of the judicial system, external border controls, anti-corruption strategy, strengthening of law enforcement capacities);

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

(b) Title III, Chapter 4 of the Convention of 19 June 1990 implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 on the gradual abolition of checks at common borders;

In the case of discontinuous emission monitoring, compliance is achieved if the average reading per check does not exceed the value of the limit.

c) in coordinating joint tasks of border checks and control as well as other operations at the common state border or in individual border areas involving the cooperation of the Contracting Parties;

1 Without prejudice to international commitments in relation to the free movement of persons, Parties shall strengthen, to the extent possible, such border controls as may be necessary to prevent and detect trafficking in human beings.

A Schengen Facility is hereby created as a temporary instrument to help beneficiary Member States between 1 May 2004 and the end of 2006 to finance actions at the new external borders of the Union for the implementation of the Schengen acquis and external border control.

Protocol on the position of the United Kingdom and Ireland on policies in respect of border controls, asylum and immigration, judicial cooperation in civil matters and on police cooperation

PROTOCOL ON THE POSITION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND ON POLICIES IN RESPECT OF BORDER CONTROLS, ASYLUM AND IMMIGRATION, JUDICIAL COOPERATION IN CIVIL MATTERS AND ON POLICE COOPERATION

c) Exchange of information, knowledge and experience in the field of border controls, as well as material and technical support of the passport control services in order to detect forged and altered travel documents and prevent illegal entry and illicit immigration.

The United Kingdom shall exercise controls on persons crossing the external borders of the Sovereign Base Areas in accordance with the undertakings set out in Part Four of the Annex to Protocol No 3 to the Act of Accession of 16 April 2003.

User Members shall ensure that preshipment inspection entities treat all information received in the course of the preshipment inspection as business confidential to the extent that such information is not already published, generally available to third parties, or otherwise in the public domain.

e) border control stamp of a third country border crossing point at the common border with the requested Contracting Party, taking into account the itinerary and the date of the border crossing of the person in the process of readmission.

(c) information requirements are limited to what is necessary for appropriate control, inspection and approval procedures, including for approval of the use of additives or for the establishment of tolerances for contaminants in food, beverages or feedstuffs;

(g) the field of border controls, on issues related to organisation, training, best practices and other operational measures on the ground and where relevant, equipment, while being aware of the potential dual-use of such equipment.

The Parties will take all possible measures to eliminate the bottlenecks at border crossing points, so that there are no solid queues between the check point of exit and the check point of entry of the Parties, such as would impede the expeditious movements of vehicles from one country to another.

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,

Where the Customs intend to establish a new Customs office or to convert an existing one at a common border crossing, they shall, wherever possible, co-operate with the neighbouring Customs to establish a juxtaposed Customs office to facilitate joint controls.

5.5.28 The officers may also be asked to explain about the boundaries of the watertight compartments, the openings therein with the means of closure and position of any controls thereof and the arrangements for the correction of any list due to flooding.

In order not to hamper the proper functioning of the internal market, the enforcement of the new Member States' national rules during the transitional periods referred to in Annexes V to XIV to the Act of Accession of 16 April 2003 shall not lead to border controls between Member States.

The UN Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (UN/ECE CLRTAP), with several protocols (the second refers to the control of sulphur dioxide; new protocols are in preparation, e.g. for VOC, SO2, NOx, heavy metals, POP, etc.).

Pending the entry into force of an agreement between Member States on arrangements for crossing external borders, the Member State which authorizes transit without a visa through the transit zone of its airports shall not be regarded as responsible for control on entry, in respect of travellers who do not leave the transit zone.

Article 1, second, third and fourth paragraphs, and Article 3(1), second, third and fourth subparagraphs, of the Protocol on the position of the United Kingdom and Ireland on policies in respect of border controls, asylum and immigration, judicial cooperation in civil matters and on police cooperation,

(c) the provisions on mutual assistance in criminal matters of the Convention of 19 June 1990 implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 on the gradual abolition of checks at common borders (hereinafter referred to as the 'Schengen Implementation Convention') which are not repealed pursuant to Article 2(2);

When entering the territory of the Republic of Slovenia after transiting through the territory of one or more States to which the provisions are fully applicable concerning the abolition of internal border controls and of restrictions on the movement of persons, as set out in the Schengen acquis, the 90 (ninety) days shall become effective as of the date of crossing the external border limiting the free movement area formed by the aforesaid States.

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:

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.

While entering, within, or leaving the territory of one Contracting Party, the laws and regulations applicable within that territory relating to the admission to or departure from its territory of passengers, crew or cargo on aircraft (including regulations relating to entry, clearance, immigration, passports, customs and quarantine or, in the case of mail, postal regulations) shall be complied with by, or on behalf of, such passengers, crew or cargo of the other Contracting Party's air carriers.

While entering, within, or leaving the territory of one Party, the laws and regulations applicable within that territory relating to the admission to or departure from its territory of passengers, crew or cargo on aircraft (including regulations relating to entry, clearance, immigration, passports, customs and quarantine or, in the case of mail, postal regulations) shall be complied with by, or on behalf of, such passengers, crew or cargo of the other Party's airlines.

RECALLING that the provisions of the Schengen acquis consisting of the Agreements on the gradual abolition of checks at common borders, signed by some Member States of the European Union in Schengen on 14 June 1985 and on 19 June 1990, as well as related agreements and rules adopted on the basis of these agreements, have been integrated into the framework of the European Union by a Protocol annexed to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty establishing the European Community;

(b) its laws and regulations relating to the admission to, remaining in, or departure from its territory of passengers, crew members and cargo including mail (such as regulations relating to entry, clearance, transit, civil aviation security, immigration, passports, customs and quarantine) by airlines and by or on behalf of such passengers, crew members and cargo including mail, upon transit of, admission to, departure from and while within the said territory.

The Union rules and arrangements on transit of persons by land between the region of Kaliningrad and other parts of the Russian Federation, and in particular the Council Regulation (EC) No 693/2003 of 14 April 2003 establishing a specific Facilitated Transit Document (FTD), a Facilitated Rail Transit Document (FRTD) and amending the Common Consular Instructions and the Common Manual, shall not in themselves delay or prevent the full participation of Lithuania in the Schengen acquis, including the removal of internal border controls.

border control

external border checks and surveillance,

External border checks and surveillance

Consultation in the event that alternative border checks are carried out

Corresponding border customs offices are in charge of the control of goods";

The upper control limits (UCL) and lower control limits (LCL) for the guinea pig control are between OD values 1,4 and 0,4 respectively.

Internal borders may be crossed at any point without any checks on persons being carried out.

A copy of the CVED shall be kept by the official veterinarian at the border inspection post.

The official veterinarian at the border inspection post shall retain a copy of the CVED.