{{Short description|Cross-border traffic of residents of a border area}} {{expand Polish|date=March 2024}} <!-- has info specific to Poland--> {{expand German|date=March 2024}} <!-- has info specific to Germany--> [[File:Bescheinigung Grenzverkehr 1928.jpg|thumb|A 1928 small border traffic permit for travel between the Free State of Saxony and Czechoslovakia ]] The '''local border traffic''' or '''small border traffic''' is cross-border traffic of residents of a border area. In many cases local border traffic is subject to bilateral regulation aimed at the simplification of border crossing for these residents.<ref>Steve Peers, ''EU Justice and Home Affairs Law'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=X0YlF7X1mlgC&pg=PA210 p. 210]</ref>
Often, additional border crossing points are created to carry only local border traffic.
== Brexit and Northern Ireland == {{See|Brexit and the Irish border|Irish Sea border}}
right|thumb|The border between the United Kingdom and the European Union in Ireland The UK left the EU following Brexit. The open border between Northern Ireland and Ireland created a problem of a porous external EU border. Article 3 of the Northern Ireland Protocol retained the Common Travel Area for citizens of the UK to enter the EU via Ireland freely.<ref>https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/ireland/entry-requirements</ref><ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/uk-domestic-flights-passport-need-fly-ireland-simon-calder-b2577435.html</ref>
==European Union== {{main|Schengen Area#Local border traffic at external borders}}
The European Union rules on local border traffic were established by Regulation (EC) No 1931/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006.<ref>[http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32011R1342:EN:NOT Regulation (EU) No 1342/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 amending Regulation (EC) No 1931/2006 as regards the inclusion of the Kaliningrad oblast and certain Polish administrative districts in the eligible border area]</ref> <!-- more immediate refs required -->
==Former Yugoslavia== Of the former Communist states, citizens of Yugoslavia enjoyed a significant freedom of international movement. In 1960, local border traffic on the Yugoslavia — Italy border in Istria registered almost seven million crossings in both directions.<ref>''Review: Yugolsav Magazine'', 1961, [https://books.google.com/books?id=BVc8AQAAIAAJ&q="local+border+traffic p.43]</ref> In 1977 Yugoslavia had 55 local border traffic agreements with the neighboring countries, including 7 with Italy, 11 with Austria, 8 with Hungary, 10 with Romania, 8 with Bulgaria, 5 with Greece.<ref>Vojislav Mićović, Velimir Popović, ''Yugoslavia's openness to the world: the freedom of exchange of information and cultural goods and of movement of people'', p. 97</ref>
==See also== *{{section link|Border control|Expedited border controls}} *Thousand-mark ban
==References== {{reflist}}
Category:Borders Category:Expedited border crossing schemes Category:Road traffic management