‘border checks’ means the checks carried out at border crossing points, to ensure that persons, including their means of transport and the objects in their possession, may be authorised to enter the territory of the Member States or authorised to leave it;
ciallaíonn “seiceálacha teorann” na seiceálacha a dhéantar ag pointí trasnaithe teorann, lena n-áirithiú go bhféadfar daoine, lena n-áirítear a modh iompair agus na hábhair atá ina seilbh, a údarú le dul isteach ar chríoch na mBallstát nó imeacht uaithi;