Austria will divide its border crossings into three categories during the Euro 2008 soccer tournament, the Czech Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
The first will be permanently checked, others mobile and the third category will be tourist crossings without any controls, the ministry said.
In the mobile border crossings, the Austrian police will direct the traffic into a single lane and make random checks of individual cars, according to the ministry.
Austria, along with Switzerland the co-hosts of the Euro 2008 scheduled for June 7-29, will reintroduce internal border checks during selected matches.
"The Schengen treaties allow member states to temporarily reintroduce border checks under extraordinary conditions. Austria will do so during Euro 2008," spokesman for the Austrian Interior Ministry Rudolf Gollia said previously.
Gollia said checks would not be performed during the whole month and at all border crossings, but rather only a few days at some crossings where problematic soccer fans could try to enter Austria.
Border checks were reintroduced also during international soccer championships in the past years, including the previous Euro championship in Portugal in 2004 and the World Cup in Germany two years ago.
Source: Xinhua
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