Czech Activities
The Ministry of the Interior endeavours to create a friendly climate for travelling across Europe whilst ensuring a high degree of security
The aim of Czech activities is to fully adhere to Schengen rules along the internal Schengen border whilst simultaneously broadening cooperation with neighbouring Schengen countries, and to make such cooperation more effective.
The principal features of Czech measures are as follows:
- transparency – to provide information on rules of checks and powers of security authorities through an information campaign aimed at Czech, German and Austrian nationals;
- thorough controls of how rules are respected – an equal approach during controls of how legal regulations are adhered to; focus on checks taking into account crime developments and identified security and public order risks;
- efforts to establish modern cooperation relevant to the 21st century – evaluation of current arrangements of police cooperation and of the manner in which individual tools of cooperation preceding negotiations with representatives of Germany and Austria at the political level are utilised. In addition, efforts are being made to put in place more efficient and sophisticated forms of cooperation, with consideration of common interests in security and public order along the joint border. In doing so the Czech Republic has initiated general discussion on legal concepts of how instruments of international police cooperation are conceived in both countries, within the context of Schengen acquis and other international commitments.
What is the objective of the Czech activities?
- To ensure that the borderland is indeed an area without border, inappropriate and undignified checks contravening rules of free movement of persons.
- To strengthen the belief in the fundamental principles of Schengen and to ensure that such principles are met.
- To increase awareness in the general public of rules and rights concerning checks in German, Austrian and Czech territories.
- To increase the effectiveness of cooperation with German and Austrian authorities by utilizing of standard Schengen tools of cooperation.