Corrigendum to Council Decision 2004/466/EC of 29 April 2004 amending the Common Manual in order to include provision for targeted border controls on accompanied minors (OJ L 157, 30.4.2004)
Date: 2004-06-02
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Schengen Agreement, border control, infancy, trafficking in human beings, young person

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Corrigendum to Council Decision 2004/466/EC of 29 April 2004 amending the Common Manual in order to
include provision for targeted border controls on accompanied minors

(Official Journal of the European Union L 157 of 30 April 2004)

Decision 2004/466/EC should read as follows:

COUNCIL DECISION
of 29 April 2004
amending the Common Manual in order to include provision for targeted border controls on
accompanied minors

(2004/466/EC)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 790/2001 of
24 April 2001 reserving to the Council implementing powers
with regard to certain detailed provisions and practical procedures
for carrying out border checks and surveillance (1),

Having regard to the initiative of the Italian Republic,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

It is necessary to adopt special procedures for entry and
exit checks on persons crossing the external borders,
including on accompanied minors, given especially that
the persons accompanying or supposedly accompanying
minors are in fact often traffickers in human beings, and
provision should be made for border control authorities to
pay particular attention to all travelling minors.

Point 5 of the Declaration of the Executive Committee of
9 February 1998 on the abduction of minors states that ‘it
is equally imperative that the authorities responsible for
border control systematically check the identity papers and
the travel documents of minors. This is particularly impor-
tant if minors are travelling in the company of just one
adult’.

(3)

In accordance with Articles 1 and 2 of the Protocol on the
position of Denmark, annexed to the Treaty on European
Union and to the Treaty establishing the European Com-
munity, Denmark is not taking part in the adoption of this

(1) OJ L 116, 26.4.2001, p. 5.

Decision, and is not bound by it or subject to its applica-
tion. Given that this Decision builds upon the Schengen
acquis, under the provisions of Title IV of Part Three of the
Treaty establishing the European Community, Denmark
shall, in accordance with Article 5 of the said Protocol,
decide, within a period of six months after the Council has
adopted this Decision, whether it will implement it into its
national law.

As regards Iceland and Norway, this Decision constitutes a
development of provisions of the Schengen acquis, within
the meaning of the Agreement concluded by the Council
of the European Union and the Republic of Iceland and the
Kingdom of Norway concerning the association of those
two States with the implementation, application and devel-
opment of the Schengen acquis, which fall within the area
referred to in Article 1, point A of Council Decision
1999/437/EC (2) on certain arrangements for the applica-
tion of that Agreement.

in

part,

accordance

This Decision constitutes a development of provisions of
the Schengen acquis in which the United Kingdom does not
take
Council
Decision 2000/365/EC of 29 May 2000 concerning the
request of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and North-
ern Ireland to take part in some of the provisions of the
Schengen acquis (3); the United Kingdom is therefore not
taking part in its adoption and is not bound by it or sub-
ject to its application.

with

This Decision constitutes a development of provisions of
the Schengen acquis in which Ireland does not take part, in
accordance with Council Decision 2002/192/EC of 28 Feb-
ruary 2002 concerning Ireland’s request to take part in
some of the provisions of the Schengen acquis (4); Ireland
is therefore not taking part in its adoption and is not bound
by it or subject to its application.

(4)

(5)

(6)

(2) OJ L 176, 10.7.1999, p. 31.
(3) OJ L 131, 1.6.2000, p. 43.
(4) OJ L 64, 7.3.2002, p. 20.

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(7)

This Decision constitutes an act building upon the Schen-
gen acquis or otherwise related to it, within the meaning of
Article 3(1) of the Act of Accession,

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on the day following that of
its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 3

Article 1

This Decision is addressed to the Member States in accordance
with the Treaty establishing the European Community.

In the second paragraph of point 6.8.1 of part II of the Common
Manual, the sentence reading: ‘Staff carrying out checks must pay
particular attention to minors travelling unaccompanied’ shall be
amended as follows: ‘Staff carrying out checks must pay particu-
lar attention to minors, whether travelling accompanied or
unaccompanied’.

Done at Luxembourg, 29 April 2004.

For the Council
The President
M. McDOWELL