Schengen Agreement

A Dictionary of Contemporary World History | 2004 | 691 words | Copyright

Schengen Agreement (14 June 1985) Signed in Schengen (Luxemburg), the treaty sought to abolish border controls of private and commercial traffic between the signatory states. A second Agreement (Schengen II), signed in 1990, enhanced the provisions for common policing through the creation of the Schengen Information System. Immigration controls to third countries were harmonized, and external border controls to third countries enhanced. Originally signed by a core of European Community member states, it was incorporated into the EU by the Treaty of Amsterdam. By 2002, its members included all EU states apart from Great Britain and Ireland. Norway and Iceland were Associated Members.

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