Deri kunne man læse: «For at markedet (det indre marked) skal kunne fungere på et hjemmemarkeds betingelser, bør de fysiske grænser afskaffes, dvs. at al kontrol bør afskaffes..., i lighed med at der ikke er nogen kontrol ved grænserne mellem regionerne inden for et nationalt marked«.
This stated that to enable the internal market to operate under the conditions of a home market, it was necessary to abolish physical borders, in other words to abolish all checks, in keeping with the absence of checks at the borders between regions within a national market.