If there are local problems, it has been agreed that Customs will notify frontier controls.

It is true that frontier controls cannot simply be abolished without putting some alternative options in place.

The deadline of 1992 for the removal of frontier controls is therefore unlikely to be met.

It is quite ridiculous to claim that crime cannot be effectively combatted without frontier controls.

The third area of UK concern, and one which has not yet been resolved, relates to frontier controls.

Stage 1 is connected to the benefits from removing barriers affecting trade, i.e. frontier controls.

A dispute with Belgium indirectly buttressed her case that frontier controls would be needed to combat terrorism.

Physical barriers - frontier controls, and customs formalities.

These are national quotas and must be removed or harmonised once frontier controls are eliminated.

It may be surmised that Frontier Control drew thesame obvious conclusion at the start.

Consequently, frontier controls were necessary to ensure that cross-frontier trade in goods adhered to the various national requirements.

"Any response yet from Frontier Control?"

Mr Taylor added: 'We did warn him there may be problems at frontier controls.'

Several governments, particularly from the larger states, sought co-operation on immigration and frontier controls and also closer police collaboration.

"Plot a chase and intercept course and give our position and situation to Frontier Control," he ordered.

Moreover he mentioned all the measures to be demanded on the Hungarian side, when Austria will set back the frontier control during the Championship.

Mrs. Thatcher reiterated her opposition to a full abolition of frontier controls and to plans to harmonize value-added tax levels among the 12 members.

I should make it absolutely clear that from 1 January 1993 we shall continue to maintain our frontier controls, particularly on matters of international crime, drugs and immigration.

The removal of frontier controls is being held up by failure to harmonise VAT and excise duties.

The imposition of frontier controls caused some service disruption, with main line trains having to stop at both Dundalk and Goraghwood stations.

International Convention on the Harmonization of Frontier Controls of Goods (1982)

After all, it is quite possible that the chaotic state of frontier controls has facilitated the fraudulent importing of contaminated meat or cattle feeds into mainland Europe.

If the new VAT rules have brought vexations in their wake, it should not be forgotten that they have been introduced because frontier controls are abolished from today.

The honourable Member will certainly understand that some instructions, which are addressed to authorities with external frontier controls, for example, are by nature confidential and therefore not accessible to the public.

The BFS had been established (as the Frontier Control Service) in 1946 to take over control of border crossing points from the British Army.