area without internal frontiers

The internal market is defined as "an area without internal frontiers."

Madam President, freedom to travel is probably the most important element in creating the internal market as an area without internal frontiers.

The European example of the gradual creation of area without internal frontiers is being called upon to serve as an example in this instance.

Measures brought into force by the European Union, creating an area without internal frontiers in which the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital is ensured.

Turning now to other matters, the single market comprises an area without internal frontiers. This implies that the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital is guaranteed.

Post 1992 when Europe becomes an area without internal frontiers, in which the free movement of goods is assured, one centrally located manufacturing and distribution base will suffice.

As for Britain, Ireland and Denmark, officials at the community's headquarters in Brussels believe that for the moment, they will simply be allowed to claim special circumstances and ignore their prior commitment to create "an area without internal frontiers."

As the Honourable Member will know, the aim of the existing Trans-European Networks guidelines is to try to ensure sustainable mobility of persons and goods within the area without internal frontiers under the best possible social and safety conditions.

Since the external frontiers of a Schengen state may be with another Community state, this poses a possible conflict with Article 8A of the EEC Treaty requiring the Community to be an area without internal frontiers.

At the heart of the 1992 programme lies Article 13 of the SEA: "The internal market shall comprise an area without internal frontiers in which the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital is ensured in accordance with the provisions of this Treaty".

Firstly, Article 7a, which provides for the creation of an area without internal frontiers, was, like the Schengen agreements, conceived at a time when the pressure of economic migration was not as great as it is today, and moreover when the Union's eastern border was formed by the Iron Curtain.

Madam President, the object of this exercise is to determine, through examining the question of the free movement of persons, whether or not the will exists to build a genuinely united Europe - to act, that is, in accordance with the Treaty on European Union, which defines the Union as an area without internal frontiers.