Border controls are measures used by a country to monitor or regulate its borders. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands In Political geography and International politics, a country is a Political division of a geographical entity Borders define geographic boundaries of political entities or legal jurisdictions such as Governments States or subnational administrative The control of the flow of people, animals and goods across a border may be controlled by government Customs services. Customs is an Authority or agency in a Country responsible for collecting and safeguarding customs duties and for controlling the flow of goods Security is enforced by various kinds of Border Guards and Coast Guards. Border Guard, Border Patrol, Border police, or Frontier police is a National security agency that performs Border control, i A coast guard is a national organization responsible for various services at sea Official designations, jurisdictions and subordinations of these agencies vary.
Border controls exist to:
- regulate immigration (both legal and illegal)
- control the movement of citizens
- collect excise tax
- prevent smuggling of drugs, weapons, endangered species and other illegal or hazardous material
- control the spread of human or animal diseases (see also quarantine)
The degree of strictness of border controls depends on the country and the border concerned. Immigration refers to the movement of people among countries While the movement of people has existed throughout human history at various levels modern immigration implies long-term Excise or Excise tax (sometimes called an excise duty) is a type of Tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to Customs duties Smuggling, also known as trafficking, is the clandestine transportation of goods or persons past a point where prohibited such as out of a building into a Prison An endangered species is a population of an organism which is at risk of becoming Extinct because it is either few in numbers or threatened by changing environmental or predation A dangerous good is any Solid, Liquid, or Gas that can harm people other living Organisms property or the environment For other uses see Quarantine (disambiguation Quarantine is voluntary or compulsory isolation typically to contain the spread of something In some countries, control may be targeted at the traveller's national origin or other countries that have been visited. Others may need to be certain the traveller has paid the appropriate fees for their visas and has future travel planned out of the country. A visa (short for the Latin carta visa, lit "a document that has been seen" is a document issued by a Country giving an individual Yet others may concentrate on the contents of the travellers baggage, and imported goods to ensure nothing is being carried that might bring a biosecurity risk into the country. Biosecurity A set of preventive measures designed to reduce the risk of intentional removal (theft of a valuable biological material In the member states of the Schengen agreement, internal border control is often virtually unnoticeable, and often only performed by means of random car or train searches in the hinterland, while controls at borders with non-agreement states may be rather strict. The term Schengen Agreement is used for two agreements concluded among European states in 1985 and 1990 which deal with the abolition of systematic Border controls The hinterland is the land or district behind the borders of a coast or river
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- Champion P. Borders define geographic boundaries of political entities or legal jurisdictions such as Governments States or subnational administrative It has been suggested to create a new article named Checkpoint (security and that this article should be a sub-article to the new article D. ; Hofstra D. E. ; Clayton J. S. (2007) Border control for potential aquatic weeds. Stage 3. Weed risk assessment. Science for Conservation 271. p. 41. Department of Conservation, New Zealand. [1]
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