Border checks: implementation, provisions and procedures. Initiative Portugal

PURPOSE : to reserve to the Council implementing powers with regard to certain detailed provisions and practical procedures for carrying out border checks and surveillance. COMMUNITY MEASURE : Council Regulation 790/2001/EC to reserve to the Council implementing powers with regard to certain detailed provisions and practical procedures for carrying out border checks and surveillance. CONTENT: the Council adopted a Regulation, on the initiative of the Portuguese Republic, to adopt certain detailed provisions and practical procedures for carrying out border checks and surveillance. The objective is to reserve to the Council implementing powers, given the sensitivity of this area in the Member States, in particular involving political relations with third countries. Therefore, it is proposed that the Council reserves the right, during the transitional period of five years referred to in Article 67(1) of the Treaty establishing the European Community, to adopt, amend and update the detailed provisions and practical procedures referred to above by unanimity, pending a review by the Council of the conditions under which such implementing powers would be conferred on the Commission after the end of this transitional period. ENTRY INTO FORCE : 24 April 2001.�