Franco-Dutch treaty on Saint Martin border controls
| Treaty between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the French Republic on the control of persons entering Saint Martin through the airports. Traité entre le Royaume des Pays-Bas et la République française sur le contrôle des personnes entrant dans Saint Martin dans les aéroports. Verdrag tussen het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden en de Franse Republiek inzake personencontrole op de luchthavens op Sint Maarten. |
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| Signed | 17 May 1994 |
| Location | Paris, France |
| Effective | 1 August 2007 |
| Signatories | Kingdom of the Netherlands and France |
| Languages | French and Dutch |
The Franco-Dutch treaty on Saint Martin border controls, often called the Franco-Dutch treaty (formally: Treaty between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the French Republic on the control of persons entering Saint Martin through the airports. French: Traité entre le Royaume des Pays-Bas et la République française sur le contrôle des personnes entrant dans Saint Martin dans les aéroports. Dutch: Verdrag tussen het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden en de Franse Republiek inzake personencontrole op de luchthavens op Sint Maarten.) is a treaty between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and France aimed at improving border controls at the two airports on the island of Saint Martin, which is composed of the Dutch Sint Maarten and the French Collectivity of Saint Martin.
The airports concerned are Princess Juliana International Airport and L'Espérance Airport.
The treaty was signed on 17 May 1994 in Paris, and is drawn up in both a French and Dutch original.
Ratification proved to be difficult in the Netherlands. An advice from the Estates of the Netherlands Antilles, which said that the treaty would have negative effects on Sint Maarten's tourist industry, initially blocked the ratification. There had also been objections about the authority of the committee (see below). The parliament of the Kingdom of the Netherlands decided in 1999 to hold off ratification until Sint Maarten made its position clear. Sint Maarten's position was never made clear, however. After France put pressure on the Dutch government, the treaty was eventually ratified in 2006, much to the dismay of the leader of the People's Progressive Alliance.
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