shall mean any check, inspection, verification or formality performed at Member States' frontiers by national authorities which halt or hamper the free movement of the vehicles or vessels concerned,
1.This Regulation shall apply to controls pursuant to an international agreement and those referred to in Regulation (EEC) No 4060/89 performed within the Community by Member States in respect of road and inland waterway transport operations effected by means of transport registered or put into circulation in a third country.
2.This Regulation shall not affect the rights or obligations of a Member State, where the means of transport referred to in paragraph 1 enters from a third country, to perform all necessary controls, in order to establish that such means of transport are authorized to undertake transport in or through the territory of the Member State concerned.