ABOLITION OF CHECKS AT INTERNAL BORDERS AND MOVEMENT OF PERSONS

(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;

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.

(c) If the device provides for the recording of crew members` driving times, times spent performing occupational activities other than driving, and rest periods as well as vehicle speeds and distance covered, the keeping of the individual control book may be entirely dispensed with;

the potential damage in terms of loss of production or sales in the event of the entry, establishment or spread of a pest or disease; the costs of control or eradication in the territory of the importing Member; and the relative cost-effectiveness of alternative approaches to limiting risks.

(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of checks at common borders (hereinafter referred to as the 'Schengen Implementation Convention') which are not repealed pursuant to Article 2(2);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 Government will carry out (in combination with the monetary, fiscal and income policy) a more restrictive policy of direct price regulation with gradual raising of controlled prices or the policy of indirect price regulation with the introduction of methodologies of price formation in order to eliminate price disparities, ensure price stability, competitiveness and efficiency of economic operators.

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;

the abolition of checks on persons at internal borders, in particular the removal of obstacles to and restrictions on traffic at road crossings on the internal borders

The Ministers and State Secretaries confirm that an operational SIS is an essential condition for the abolition of controls at the internal borders.

With regard to the movement of persons, the Parties shall endeavour to abolish checks at common borders and transfer them to their external borders.

Each Contracting Party shall be responsible for the application of the Convention, particularly the abolition of checks at the internal borders during the initial phase of application.

The abolition of border controls goes hand in hand with abolition of the requirement to produce or present a valid document that permits the holder to cross borders.

Abolition of checks on persons and of the requirement to present cross-border travel documents at land borders, ports and airports

whereas consequently the aim of this Directive is not to abolish these controls but to eliminate differences between rules in so far as these constitute a hindrance to trade;

With regard to the cross-border carriage of goods by road, the Parties shall waive, as from 1 July 1985, systematic performance of the following checks at their common borders:

AGREEMENT between the Governments of the States of the Benelux Economic Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders

The avoidance of any further delay in abolishing such checks at the common borders even after all the compensatory measures have been implemented is contingent on the necessary preconditions being fulfilled.

The Agreement between the Governments of the States of the Benelux Economic Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders dated 14 June 1985 fn.

That interest furthermore is often disguised as motivated by a higher goal, e.g. the pursuit of the legitimate aim of protecting public morals, the defence of traditional family values, control over limited public resources, etc.

Controls on persons at internal borders between Greece and the Member States which fully apply the Schengen acquis shall be lifted in the period from 1 January 2000 to 26 March 2000.

AGREEMENT ON THE ACCESSION OF THE KINGDOM OF DENMARK to the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 on the gradual abolition of checks at the common borders signed at Schengen on 19 June 1990

PROMPTED by the resolve to achieve the abolition of checks at their common borders on the movement of nationals of the Member States of the European Communities and to facilitate the movement of goods and services at those borders,

The Parties shall seek solutions enabling them by 1 January 1986 to waive systematic checks at their common borders on passenger waybills and licences for the carriage of passengers by road for hire or reward.

This Regulation shall apply only until 1 May 2004 to the border inspection posts listed in Annex II which are due to be abolished upon the accession of Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia.

Until 1 May 2004 this Regulation shall not apply to the border inspection posts listed in Annex II which are due to be abolished upon the accession of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia.";

The Conference agrees that measures to be adopted by the Council, which will have the effect of replacing provisions on the abolition of checks at common borders contained in the 1990 Schengen Convention, should provide at least the same level of protection and security as under the aforementioned provisions of the Schengen Convention.

This empowerment should therefore be strengthened by the removal of centralised prior controls and in particular ending the advance approval of revenue and expenditure operations by the financial controller and the check by the accounting officer that payment constitutes valid discharge.

Since the border inspection posts between the existing Member States and the new Member States are to be abolished upon accession, a transitional measure should be adopted to save them having to introduce new administrative procedures for one month.

The following Decisions of the Central Group established by the Convention signed in Schengen on 19 June 1990 implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders, to the extent that they relate to the provisions in paragraph 2 above:

The following Declarations of the Executive Committee established by the Convention signed in Schengen on 19 June 1990 implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders, to the extent that they relate to the provisions in paragraph 2 above:

Council Decision 2000/586/JHA of 28 September 2000 establishing a procedure for amending Articles 40(4) and (5), 41(7) and 65(2) of the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 on the gradual abolition of checks at common borders (OJ L 248, 3.10.2000, p. 1)

The provisions of the following Decisions of the Executive Committee established by the Convention signed in Schengen on 19 June 1990 implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders, as amended by certain of the acts listed in paragraph 7 below:

Pursuant to Article 23 of the Schengen Convention, the visa shall be rescinded if checks reveal that the alien holding a visa issued correctly does not fulfil, or no longer fulfils, one or several of the conditions set out in Article 5(1)(c), (d) and (e) of the Schengen Convention.

The Standing Committee shall have sole responsibility for drafting the reports with a view to evaluating the preparations by the candidate States to bring the Schengen Convention into force and verifying that all of the preconditions for the practical application of the Schengen Convention and the abolition of checks at the internal borders have been fulfilled.

The following provisions of the Convention signed in Schengen on 19 June 1990 fn implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders, its related Final Act and Joint Declarations, as amended by certain of the acts listed in paragraph 7 below:

As soon as this Agreement enters into force and until all checks are abolished completely, the formalities for nationals of the Member States of the European Communities at the common borders between the States of the Benelux Economic Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic shall be carried out in accordance with the conditions laid down below.

The following provisions of the Agreements on Accession to the Convention signed in Schengen on 19 June 1990 implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders, their Final Acts and the related Declarations, as amended by certain of the acts listed in paragraph 7 below:

Having regard to the signature done at Paris on this twenty-seventh day of November in the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety of the Protocol on the Accession of the Government of the Italian Republic to the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 between the Governments of the States of the Benelux Economic Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders,

At the time of signing the Agreement on the Accession of the Italian Republic to the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 between the Governments of the States of the Benelux Economic Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders signed at Schengen on 19 June 1990, the Contracting Parties have adopted the following Declarations:

Having regard to the signature done at Bonn on this twenty-fifth day of June in the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-one of the Protocol on the Accession of the Government of the Portuguese Republic to the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 between the Governments of the States of the Benelux Economic Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders, as amended by the Protocol on the Accession of the Government of the Italian Republic signed at Paris on 27 November 1990,

NOTING that 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 the rules adopted on the basis of these agreements, are aimed at enhancing European integration and, in particular, at enabling the European Union to develop more rapidly into an area of freedom, security and justice,

Having regard to the initiative of the Hellenic Republic(1), Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament(2), (1) The Schengen Information System, (hereinafter referred to as the "SIS") set up pursuant to the provisions of Title IV of the Convention of 1990 implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 on the gradual abolition of checks at common borders (hereinafter referred to as the "Schengen Convention")(3), constitutes an essential tool for the application of the provisions of the Schengen acquis as integrated into the framework of the European Union.

The transitional provisions for the border inspection posts between the Member States and the new Member States which are due to be abolished on accession are not made sufficiently clear in Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 282/2004 introducing a document for the declaration of, and veterinary checks on, animals from third countries entering the Community(2) and should be reworded to avoid any ambiguity.

The KINGDOM OF BELGIUM, the FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, the FRENCH REPUBLIC, the GRAND DUCHY OF LUXEMBOURG and THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS, Parties to the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 between the Governments of the States of the Benelux Economic Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders signed at Schengen on 19 June 1990, hereinafter referred to as "the 1990 Convention", of the one part,

Having regard to the signature done at Bonn on this twenty-fifth day of June in the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-one of the Protocol on the Accession of the Government of the Kingdom of Spain to the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 between the Governments of the States of the Benelux Economic Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders, as amended by the Protocol on the Accession of the Government of the Italian Republic signed at Paris on 27 November 1990,

The Schengen Information System, hereinafter referred to as "SIS", set up pursuant to the provisions of Title IV of the Convention of 1990 implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 on the gradual abolition of checks at common borders(3), hereinafter referred to as "the 1990 Schengen Convention", constitutes an essential tool for the application of the provisions of the Schengen acquis as integrated into the framework of the European Union.

At the time of signing the Agreement on the Accession of the Kingdom of Spain to the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 between the Governments of the States of the Benelux Economic Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders signed at Schengen on 19 June 1990, to which the Italian Republic acceded by the Agreement signed at Paris on 27 November 1990, the Contracting Parties have adopted the following Declarations:

At the time of signing the Agreement on the Accession of the Portuguese Republic to the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 between the Governments of the States of the Benelux Economic Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders signed at Schengen on 19 June 1990, to which the Italian Republic acceded by the Agreement signed at Paris on 27 November 1990, the Contracting Parties have adopted the following Declarations: