border control

external border checks and surveillance,

External border checks and surveillance

external border checks and surveillance,

External border checks and surveillance

border check:

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,

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 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

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.

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.

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.

(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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

(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.

automated border controls are another way of speeding up passenger checks while at the same time economising on staff.

«border control» means a check carried out at a border in response exclusively to an intention to cross that border, regardless of any other consideration;

Consultation in the event that alternative border checks are carried out

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

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.

Arrangements for the temporary reintroduction of checks at internal borders

checks at the external borders, in particular the application of the Common Manual,

If the Contracting Parties envisage abolishing checks before the compensatory measures are in place, they should notify the Executive Committee accordingly.

Taking into account the fact that the Faeroe Islands and Greenland apply the provisions on the movement of persons laid down within the framework of the Nordic Passport Union, persons travelling between the Faeroe Islands or Greenland, of the one part, and the States parties to the 1990 Convention and the Cooperation Agreement with the Republic of Iceland and the Kingdom of Norway, of the other part, shall not be subject to border checks.

The original of the certificate must accompany the consignment at the EU border inspection post.

provisions for carrying out checks at the authorised crossing points along the external borders and in the border areas,

The original of the certificate must accompany the consignment at the EU border inspection post.

opening carriageways and lanes previously blocked for border checks, particularly at motorway border crossing points,

assess the arrangements for carrying out checks at the external borders, at the official border crossing points and in the intervening areas,

Under agreements on cross-border police cooperation, the border authorities of the requesting State must also inform the border authorities of the States concerned so as to expedite any reactions in the field.

Completing the abolition of checks at the internal borders between the Schengen States also involves the removal of the obstacles restricting travel, in particular those constituted by the installations formerly required for checks.

of the various features of the new situation at the internal borders with regard to the abolition of checks.