The Channel Tunnel (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 1994

PART IGeneral Provisions

Article 1Definitions

(1) “Frontier controls” means police, immigration, customs, health, veterinary and phytosanitary, consumer protection, and transport controls, as well as any other controls provided for in national or European Community laws and regulations.

(2) “Fixed Link” means the Channel Fixed Link defined in Article 1 of the Treaty done at Canterbury on 12 February 1986.

(3) “Trains” means international trains travelling between Belgian and British territory, using the Fixed Link and passing through French territory.

(4) “Non-stop trains” means international trains travelling between Belgian and British territory, using the Fixed Link and crossing French territory without making a commercial stop, except for technical stops.

(5) “Officers” means persons responsible for policing and frontier controls who are under the command of the persons or authorities designated in accordance with Article 3(2).

(6) “Control Zone” means that part of the territory of the host State and the non-stop trains, within which the officers of the other States are empowered to effect controls. Each control zone shall be defined by mutual agreement between the host State and the State whose officers will be operating in the said zone; however, in the case of non-stop trains, the control zone in French territory shall be determined jointly by the three Governments.

(7) “Host State” means the State in whose territory the controls of the other States are effected.

Article 2Scope

(1) This Agreement shall apply to rail traffic between the United Kingdom and Belgium travelling via the Fixed Link and passing through French territory.

(3) A Protocol concerning frontier controls and policing on non-stop trains between the United Kingdom and Belgium via the Fixed Link is attached as an annex to this Agreement and shall form an integral part thereof.