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5. For the reasons set out in paragraph 2 of the draft

minute, we have been working on the assumption that all

these categories would be issued with CFP type

passports identical to the CFP proper except that the

words "European Community" on the cover would be

omitted. Guidance was sent along these lines to the

Governors of Dependent Territories in March 1981 and

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But, as the minute notes, there have been

developments.

There is a strong move in the European

Community for the reduction and, if possible, the

eventual abolition of controls at intra-Community

frontiers. The Brussels European Council in March 1985

endorsed the view of the People's Europe Committee that

there should be a reduction in frontier controls. It

agreed however that there was a valid distinction

between land frontiers on the one hand, and air and sea

entry points on the other and accepted that abolition

of frontier controls would only be possible to the

extent that it was compatible with the need to control

terrorism, drug smuggling, etc.

Despite these qualifications however the effort to

reduce the extent of frontier controls will certainly

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