Translation of "frontière terrestre commune " (French → English) :

(i) the common land border between a Member State and a neighbouring third country;

(ii) the common land border between a Member State fully implementing the Schengen acquis and a Member State bound to apply such acquis in full, in conformity with its Act of Accession, but for which the Council decision authorising it to fully apply that acquis has not entered into force;

For the purposes of this Regulation, a third country or an OCT shall be considered to be neighbouring a Member State, including its outermost regions, where the third country or the OCT and that Member State share a common land border or where both the third country or OCT and the Member State are eligible under a joint maritime cross-border or transnational programme under the European territorial cooperation goal, or are eligible under another cross-border, sea-crossing or sea-basin cooperation programme, including where they are separated by international waters.

The purpose of the regulation is to lay down common rules on the criteria and conditions for establishing a regime of local border traffic at the ‘external land borders’ of the Member States, i.e. the common land border between: a Member State and a neighbouring third country (e.g. the border between Poland and Ukraine); a Member State fully implementing the Schengen acquis and a Member State bound to apply such acquis in full but for which the Council decision authorising it to fully apply that acquis has not entered into force (e.g. the border between Austria and Hungary); or two Member States bound to apply the Schengen acquis in fu ...[+++]ll but for which the Council decision authorising them to fully apply that acquis has not entered into force (e.g. the border between the Czech Republic and Poland).

The same reasons justifying the creation of a regime of local border traffic at the land borders between Member States and third countries also fully justify application of the same regime to the common land borders between Member States until controls at such borders are to be abolished.

"external land border" means the common land border between a Member State and a neighbouring third country;