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New Eurostar treaties open up direct travel from Amsterdam to London

8 Jul 2020

New treaties signed today make direct train services from Amsterdam to London possible later this year.

 

Direct high-speed train services from Amsterdam to London will be possible later this year, after new agreements were signed today (7 July).

 

For these services to operate, existing agreements between the UK, France and Belgium signed in 1993 have been modified to include the Netherlands. Representatives from all four countries signed the treaties at a ceremony in Brussels.

 

The Home Office-led treaty concerning Frontier Control arrangements extends the existing model of “juxtaposed border checks” to the Netherlands; whereby passengers are checked, prior to departure, successively by border officials from the departure and arrival countries.

 

This means UK Border Force officials will be stationed in Amsterdam and Rotterdam and able to carry out checks before boarding, as they already do in France and Belgium. It also allows for further cooperation between the police forces of the 4 countries involved in the fight against cross-border crime.

 

Further information:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-eurostar-treaties-open-up-direct-travel-from-amsterdam-to-london?utm_source=45256123-a8e2-4796-b13d-26166b92a572&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_content=immediate