1.   Consequently, frontier controls were necessary to ensure that cross-frontier trade in goods adhered to the various national requirements.

2.   These are national quotas and must be removed or harmonised once frontier controls are eliminated.

3.   The removal of frontier controls is being held up by failure to harmonise VAT and excise duties.

4.   Back then, the EU leaders ruled duty-free constitutes an unfair tax break and makes no sense in a Union where frontier controls have largely disappeared.

5.   EUs leader decided duty free constitutes an unfair tax break and makes no sense in a Union where frontier controls have largely disappeared.

6.   French Prime Minister Alain Juppe on Wednesday demanded a six month reprieve for the frontier controls.

7.   Nine years ago, EU leaders decided duty-free constitutes an unfair tax break and makes no sense in a union where frontier controls have largely disappeared.

8.   Russian ORT television journalists Pavel Sheremet and Dmitry Zavadsky are currently on trial on charges of illegally crossing the Belarusian border while reporting on lax frontier controls.