This stated that to enable the internal market to operate under the conditions of a home market, it was necessary to abolish physical borders, in other words to abolish all checks, in keeping with the absence of checks at the borders between regions within a national market.
Deri kunne man læse: «For at markedet (det indre marked) skal kunne fungere på et hjemmemarkeds betingelser, bør de fysiske grænser afskaffes, dvs. at al kontrol bør afskaffes..., i lighed med at der ikke er nogen kontrol ved grænserne mellem regionerne inden for et nationalt marked«.