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which are not located on the same side of the border as the drainage divide. South of
Dalarna, the border in part follows local drainage divides, but also across lakes and along rivers. Some border marks were placed on small lake islands so that they got divided by the border. In those fairly short
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Already in 1957 there were agreements that one country manned certain border crossings and the other one some others, checking in both directions. In 1959 the collaboration was formalised by an agreement on 28 October 1959, ratified in Sweden (K. Prop 1959:180) and finally the ratifications were
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The basic setting was a control zone stretching 15 kilometers on each side of the border where the officers from the other country could act. So the
Swedish custom officers could act in behalf of the Norwegian agency according to the Norwegian laws. They were then protected as a Norwegian civil
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exchanged between the
Swedish foreign minister and the Norwegian ambassador on 30 December. On the Swedish side, the agreement was expressed as a law on 18 December (SFS 1959:590), as a royal decree (SFS 1959:591) and in an instruction from the
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419:. These checks are sporadic along the Norway–Sweden border. Cars are usually not forced to stop. To combat drug smuggling, the use of CCTV surveillance has recently been increased, with systems using
818:, have been known to wander across the border. Reflecting the fact that the population is shared, a Norwegian–Swedish research project named Skandulv was founded in 2000, and is administered by the
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on one side of the border, but for some on both sides, one for each direction. A treaty gives the customs officers of one country the right to carry out clearance and checks for both countries.
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in the 1980s, drivers can easily get permission to drive on the other side of the border. Before this the border stations were used for changing train crews.
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servant. If they committed an infraction, the punishment should be handled by the
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Road E16 crossing the border without customs control
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399:Both countries are members of the
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395:Norway–European Union relations
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176:In 1751 a treaty was signed in
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241:Negotiations in Karlstad
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417:Swedish Customs Service
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1070:on 24 November 2010
1021:Blix, Hans (1964).
976:on 16 November 2010
806:Biological exchange
766:Riksrøysa/Riksrösen
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352:Norrbotten
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800:Riksrösen
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