Then if they have no goods to declare they should be sent straight back to Spain and told to return in the correct lane.

However I have yet to see a RED exit lane

Documentation required

http://www.agenciatributaria.es/stat...ront_Autor.pdf

This must surely be contrary to EU law.

It's Spain

EU‘not informed’ on Spain’s cross-border worker channel move

by Dominique Searle

As Gibraltar and UK officials began looking at the detail of Spain’s decision to create, by decree, a special access for cross-border workers though the frontier, it emerged yesterday from official sources that the move had been made unilaterally with no prior consultation with either UK or the European Commission.

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180 Spanish incursions in less than five months, says Baroness Warsi

Date: 31 July 2014

Spanish State vessels have carried out a total of 180 incursions into British Gibraltar Territorial Waters between the 1st of March and the 22nd July this year. This was revealed by Foreign Office Minister Baroness Warsi in the House of Lords.

Mrs Warsi said the UK has made it clear to Spain that unlawful incursions are unacceptable. She pointed out that the British Government does not raise the incursions with the EU because the EU does not have any jurisdiction in this matter, adding that the main focus of its lobbying within the European Union remains Spain's unlawful, unjustified and disproportionate action at the border.

The Minister said the UK has also been very clear with the European Commission and other Members States that Spain's attempts to suspend Gibraltar from EU aviation legislation are unacceptable.

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Bit sneaky. If the UK and/or Gib complain or block the measure then Spain will be able to blame someone else for the queues and delays

Not to worry Mike we are at the moment being blamed by Spain for all the coastal pollution as far as Galacia plus I believe Gibraltar is solely to blame for the economic crisis and also it's our fault the Spanish Government is corrupt amongst other things

Good job we have broad shoulders

You dirty B£$%^s , as far as Galicia, there is no smoke without a fire so I reckon you are responsible for coastal pollution as far as Cantabria. Spain was being courteous in not apportioning the full blame and did not want to be reported as exaggerating the real situation.

Don't worry that is only a small problem when you realise that according to Spain we are responsible for killing all life in the Mediterranean.
Plus our three fishermen with their two rods each have harvested every single fish in all coastal waters up to 200 miles offshore around the whole of Europe.
Now they have saved up for a new Seagull outboard they are planning to decimate the Pacific.

Back to reality

EU ‘analysing’ Spanish frontier channel move

Spain presented the European Commission with a fait accompli in relation to its decision to make the ‘red channels’ into Spain from Gibraltar ‘green channels’ for crossborder workers who secure a pass from the Agencia Tributaria in La Linea.

A spokesman for the Commission confirmed this and yesterday explained that the Commission received the resolution setting up this new measure on Monday evening of this week “in the form of a hardcopy handed over by the Spanish ambassador to the Director General of DG Home Affairs, Mr Ruete.”

The Commission also confirmed that it had “no prior information of any kind before that related to this measure.”

The unilateral decision by Spain, which comes in the wake of a series of decisions by the Commission to reject Spain’s complaints over the placing of the reef, bunkering and reclamation, is an indication of Spain’s attempt to simultaneously meet the complaints of its own citizens over the delays it has imposed at the border whilst not conceding on its arguments for controls.

Whilst Gibraltar and UK government lawyers are working through the text of the Boletin Oficial de Estado that announced the move by publication on Tuesday morning, the Commission itself is also reviewing the decision by Madrid.

“The resolution first needs to be analysed and the Commission will revert to Spain with further questions if necessary,” said the Commission in answer to Chronicle questions.

Madrid’s announcement was followed yesterday with press reports that the Spanish Government intends to have 15 automatic entry points for pedestrians at the border in its intelligent frontier system. The system is expected to look something like those used in the tube stations in London.

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When you are not satisfied with EU decisions


Verdemar to send EU further info over Eastside project

Author: GBC

The Spanish environmentalist group, Verdemar Ecologistas en Accion says it will be sending the EU further information to support its complaints against Gibraltar’s Eastside project.

The group says its surprised that the European Commission should have decided not to open infraction proceedings against the UK. It claims that Britain did not inform Spain of the works, as it was bound to do under EU directives. It therefore believes there was no public debate on the matter and Spain did not have the opportunity to present its objections.

The group insists the project has a significant transboundary impact, something which the UK denies.

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Amber light as Madrid sets ‘red-green’ border channel for October’

Spanish Government plans to introduce a fast track for registered crossborder workers are unlikely to be in effect on the ground until October, it emerged yesterday. And a European Commission spokesman interviewed in Spain has welcomed the move though highlighting the the Commission expects further measures set out in its report.

According to a report in Area on line, the La Linea paper, the visit to the neighbouring town by Iñigo Méndez de Vigo, Spain’s secretary of state for the EU, the announcement last week through a Boletin del Estado decree will now open the application system for passes which is both online and in the La Linea offices of the Agencia Tributaria.

But reactions to that move show that it has added to already growing tensions over the border and the ongoing dispute with Spain generally. Whilst the European Commission said this week it is “analysing” the terms of the Boletin of which a hard copy was handed to the Commission on Monday evening, opinion is growing over the tension that such a spilt system - one for registered cross-border workers and another for the rest of the public - may provoke.

Whilst the UK and Gibraltar Government consider legal aspects of the Spanish move and the EU Commission say they have yet to analyse it, an initial reaction from a Commission spokesman interviewed on Rtve online audio was to welcome the “speed with which Spain has reacted to making passage for workers faster.”

Miguel Puente Pattison, the EC spokesman who was part of the first delegation from the Commission to visit the frontier last September said that Gibraltar is a specially sensitive case and the Commission had made great effort to focus only on the technical issues. He made that remark in respect of the recent decisions on the legality of the reef and bunker as well as local costal works in the context of EC directives.

Mr Patterson said the move on the fast track for workers was welcomed as this had been highlighted in the report and in meetings with trades union and representatives as a particular area of concern. But he also accepted that there were still further areas for both sides to comply on and that it is “also true that the recommendations states there should not be discrimination between people passing from Gibraltar. All from the EU have a right to be treated the same. Tourists from third countries have a right to be treated in an equivalent form but we also saw the report was sensitive to the problem for workers.” He added that clearly some measures remain to be put in place.

Sr Pattison also made clear that the EC does not want to know anything about the wider conflict over Gibraltar.

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Morrisons salutes its ‘lone star’ overseas store

Morrisons Gibraltar ranks very high in the top 100 stores which the company has established across the UK. Gibraltar is one of 500 stores and the only one outside the UK. Group Retail Director, Martyn Fletcher, told the Chronicle at a reception marking 20 years since the company set up business on the Rock, eight of these years as Morrisons.

Gibraltar, he confirmed, was a really important store for the company globally, although more importantly – “we believe it is a really important store for Gibraltarians”.

And he added, “I think people like the Morrisons and British products but also the mix that we bring to the store so it has a real nice blend to it.”

Recalling their “major” decision to keep the Gibraltar branch open when they bought Safeways, he said: “We believe it was the right thing to do especially given the Rock’s heritage and connection back to the UK. We felt we could do a really good job and this has been proven over the past eight years.”

Many staff members at Morrisons have been with the company for many years. So it was only right that they showed their strength in numbers at the 20 year anniversary

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29th of August, Beer Festival and "Liberation" day sounds like a good mix. A few squadies with a pint or two under their belts should sort that out. Thoughts of "They don't like it U$%& Mr Mannering Sir" come to mind.......