Posted on 06 Oct 2010
Frontex is the European Union’s agency promoting, coordinating and developing European border management. It is headquartered in Warsaw, Poland and was officially established in 2004. Frontex is active in joint operations, training, risk analysis, research, rapid response capability, assistance of EU Member States and information sharing.
Please find below relevant press releases and resources:
- Press Release: 13800 Migrants Rescued in Central Med Last Week (30 May 2016)
- Press Release: EURTF Office in Catania Inaugurated (27 April 2016)
- Press Release: Number of migrants arriving in Greece dropped in March (18 April 2016)
- Press Release: Frontex assists Greece in transporting migrants to Turkey (8 April 2016)
- Risk Analysis for 2016 (March 2016)
- Profiting from Misery: How Smugglers Bring People to Europe (18 February 2016)
- The Role of Frontex in Return Operation (28 January 2016)
- Rapid Border Intervention Teams in Greece (28 January 2016)
- Frontex’ Single Programming Document 2016-2019
- Eastern European Borders Risk Analysis Network Quarterly Report (Quarter 4, 2015)
- Western Balkans Risk Analysis Network Quarterly Report (Quarter 4, 2015)
- Frontex Risk Analysis Network Quarterly Report (Quarter 4, 2015)
- Africa-Frontex Intelligence Community Joint Report (2015)
- Annual Risk Analysis 2015
- Western Balkans Annual Risk Analysis 2015
- Eastern European Borders Annual Risk Analysis 2015
- Twelve seconds to decide – in search of excellence: Frontex and the principle of best practice
- European Commission: How does Frontex Joint Operation Triton support search and rescue operations?
- Regulations (EU) No 1052/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the European Border Surveillance System (Eurosur) (22 October 2013)
- Eurosur: new tools to save migrants’ lives at sea and fight cross-border crime, Brussels (19 June 2013)
- Eurosur: Providing authorities with tools needed to reinforce management of external borders and fight cross-border crime, MEMO/11/896 (12 December 2011)
- Code of Conduct for joint return operations coordinated by Frontex
- Directive 2008/115/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals (16 December 2008)
- Council Decision 2004/573/EC on the organisation of joint fights for removals from the territory of two or more Member States, of third-country nationals who are subjects of individual removal orders (29 April 2004)
- Frontex: human rights responsibilities, Parliamentary Assembly, Council of Europe (8 April 2013)
- Council adopts new rules for the surveillance of the EU external sea borders, Brussels (13 May 2014)
- Regulation 2013/0106 (COD) PE-CONS 35/14 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing rules for the surveillance of the external sea borders in the context of operational cooperation coordinated by the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union, Brussels (30 April 2014)
- Council Decision 2010/252/EU supplementing the Schengen Borders Code as regards the surveillance of the sea external borders in the context of operational cooperation coordinated by the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union (26 April 2010)
- Regulation (EU) No 1168/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2007/2004 establishing a European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union (25 October 2011)
- Council Regulation (EC) No 2007/2004 establishing a European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union (26 October 2004)
