Freedom of movement: elimination of controls on persons crossing internal frontiers

The aim of the current proposal was to give concrete expression to the objective of Article 7a of the EC Treaty, namely to create an area without internal borders in which the free movement of goods, services, capital and persons was guaranteed, by creating such an area in the domain of the free movement of persons, which was the only domain in which the objective had still to be fully realised. Parliament had yet to deliver an opinion on the matter. Having concluded its debate, the Council asked the Permanent Representatives Committee to continue its examination of the proposal.