ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE SANGATTE PROTOCOL ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF BUREAUX RESPONSIBLE FOR CONTROLS ON PERSONS TRAVELLING BY TRAIN BETWEEN FRANCE AND THE UNITED KINGDOM

NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE 1(2) OF THE CHANNEL TUNNEL (INTERNATIONAL ARRANGEMENTS) (AMENDMENT NO 3) ORDER 2001

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to article 1(2) of the above Order, that the Additional Protocol between Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the French Republic, signed at Brussels on 29 May 2000, entered into force on 25 May 2001, and that the above Order accordingly came into force on the same date. That Order gives effect to material provisions of the Additional Protocol, which supplement the provisions of the Protocol between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the French Republic Concerning Frontier Controls and Policing, Co-operation in Criminal Justice, Public Safety and Mutual Assistance Relating to the Channel Fixed Link, signed at Sangatte, on 25 November 1991 (“the Sangatte Protocol”). The Additional Protocol supplements the system of juxtaposed frontier controls set up under the Sangatte Protocol, by making provisions for United Kingdom immigration controls to be carried out in the stations of Paris-Gare du Nord, Calais and Lille-Europe in France, and French immigration controls in the stations of London-Waterloo, London-St Pancras and Ashford in the United Kingdom.