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1. ‘external land border’ means the common land border between a Member State and a neighbouring third country; 2. ‘border area’ means an area that extends no more than 30 kilometres from the border. The local administrative districts that are to be considered as the border area shall be specified by the States concerned in their bilateral Agreements as referred to in Article 13. If part of any such district lies between 30 and 50 kilometres from the border line, it shall nevertheless be considered as part of the border area. The areas listed in the Annex to this Regulation shall be considered as part of the border area; ◄ 3. ‘local border traffic’ means the regular crossing of an external land border by border residents in order to stay in a border area, for example for social, cultural or substantiated economic reasons, or for family reasons, for a period not exceeding the time limit laid down in this Regulation;

4. ‘persons enjoying the Community right of free movement’ means:

(i) citizens of the Union within the meaning of Article 17(1) of the Treaty establishing the European Community, and nationals of third countries who are members of the family of a citizen of the Union exercising his or her right of free movement to whom Directive 2004/38/EC () applies;

(ii) nationals of third countries and members of their families, whatever their nationality, who, under Agreements between the Community and its Member States, on the one hand, and those third countries, on the other, enjoy rights to move freely equivalent to the right of citizens of the Union; 5. ‘third-country national’ means any person who is not a citizen of the Union within the meaning of Article 17(1) of the Treaty establishing the European Community and who is not covered by point 4;

6. ‘border residents’ means third–country nationals who have been lawfully resident in the border area of a country neighbouring a Member State for a period specified in the bilateral Agreements referred to in Article 13, which shall be at least one year. In exceptional and duly justified cases specified in those bilateral Agreements, a period of residence of less than one year may also be considered as appropriate; 7. ‘local border traffic permit’ means a specific document, as introduced by Chapter III, entitling border residents to cross an external land border under the local border traffic regime; 8. ‘the Schengen Convention’ means the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 between the Governments of the States of the Benelux Economic Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders ().