Best Practice Guidelines and Manuals Catalogue
The following is a list of Best Practice Guidelines and Manuals across the Maritime Domain, as provided by the three Agencies.
Please note that further details on each item can be obtained via the link provided for that particular item.
Provides best practice guidance and a harmonised approach to the development and maintenance of inventories
of hazardous materials in accordance with Article 5 and Article 12 of the Regulation (EU) 1257/2013 of the
European Parliament and the Council on ship recycling (hereinafter referred to as “the Regulation” or as “the
SRR”). This document has been prepared based on current knowledge and experience from the Member States,
the industry and EMSA and other stakeholders.
This study provides border guards with an overview of the ethical issues that can arise from their work. It provides border guards with a guide to the ethical principles that can help to manage and resolve those issues. The study is divided into three parts. The first part is a survey and analysis of codes of conduct currently in use by border agencies in EU countries. It begins by giving a brief description of the aims and functions of codes of conduct. It then provides an overview of 23 border guard codes of conduct, highlighting their shared concerns and noting their differences. This comparative survey is first presented in a table and then discussed in more detail. The study concludes by identifying both, main areas of overlap and gaps between the national codes of conduct and the Schengen Code and Handbook.
Link: https://www.frontex.europa.eu/media-centre/news/news-release/frontex-publishes-study-on-ethics-in-border-security-iXGzI6
- Maritime Border Control
Developed under the framework of the Consultative Technical Group for Marine Pollution Preparedness and
Response (CTG MPPR) by a Working Group comprised of representatives from Member States and EMSA.
The aim of the catalogue is to provide a detailed information about services provided by Frontex to the final users (MS, EU entities and Agencies as well as other stakeholders time to time involved).
Contact: EUROSUR@frontex.europa.eu
- Maritime Safety Including Vessel Traffic Management
- Fisheries Inspection & Control
- Maritime Border Control
- Maritime Environmental Protection & Response
- Prevention and Suppression of Trafficking and Smuggling and Connected Maritime Law Enforcement
- Maritime Search and Rescue
- Maritime Monitoring and Surveillance
- Maritime Ship and Port Security
The brochure has been built for Imposter detection for border guards with some reference material and
terminology. Checking a person’s identity starts with a comparison of the person and the document that he or
she presents. The increasing quality of security features in identity documents is making it more and more
difficult to forge such a document. To obtain another identity, it is more common to use another person’s
authentic document whose photo matches with the perpetrator’s face. To combat such lookalike fraud and to
decide whether the person who presents the document is actually the person the document shows, a universal,
systematic approach is necessary.
- Maritime Border Control
Frontex Code of Conduct sets out the basic principles serving as a framework for persons who are seconded national experts, other law enforcement officers or officers or participants from third countries in any Frontex operational activity. Aims to promote general values intended to guarantee the principles of the rule of law and respect for fundamental rights with particular focus on vulnerable persons, as well as on persons seeking international protection.
Link: https://myfx.frontex.europa.eu/cases/GRP36/GRP-2017-00036/Documents/Materials%20for%20newcomers/CODE%20OF%20CONDUCT/Code_of_conduct_applicable_to_all_persons_particiating_in_Frontex_operational_activities.pdf
- Maritime Border Control
The study presents the findings and recommendations of the 2017–2018 European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) Common Core Curriculum interoperability assessment programme (CCC-IAP) as part of the Eastern Partnership integrated border management (EaP-IBM) capacity building project led by Frontex, in cooperation with the World Customs Organisation, the International Organisation for Migration and the International Centre for Migration Policy Development. The purpose of the IAP is to measure the level at which, following the acquisition of the knowledge and skills defined in the CCC, the new border guards in the EaP countries participating in the project can demonstrate interoperability, proved by the results of an evaluation administered online.
Contact: HoU.TRU@frontex.europa.eu
Link: https://myfx.frontex.europa.eu/cases/DMS9/DMS-00009/Documents/FPI-21.0015/IAP%20Study.pdf#search=Interoperability%20%20Assessment%20Programme%20Study
- Maritime Border Control
This document intends to provide Member States with tools for the development of risk profiles, including proposing a methodology for building tactical risk profiles, presenting a framework on risk profiles to be used for the more effective combination and processing of risk indicators, and providing practical resources and examples.
Contact: Sensitive document - HoU.RIU@frontex.europa.eu also available in FOSS
- Maritime Border Control
This document intends to provide Member States with practical tools for the development of risk profiles, and more particularly to present a common risk profile template and examples of how it could be developed depending on a number of threats described here. It also provides a checklist about questions Border Management Authorities (BMAs) should tackle when they are developing risk profiles. Finally, this booklet aims at exposing the different data elements contained in the EU databases and that can be used to detect risk indicators.
Contact: Sensitive document - HoU.RIU@frontex.europa.eu also available in FOSS
- Maritime Border Control
This document intends to provide Member States with a tentative framework for building a targeting capability, by providing guidelines about the different processes to be set up, areas of interest to be taken into account as regards the organisation, management and coordination of the capability, and its cooperation with external partners.
Contact: Sensitive document - HoU.RIU@frontex.europa.eu also available in FOSS
- Maritime Border Control
- Prevention and Suppression of Trafficking and Smuggling and Connected Maritime Law Enforcement
- Maritime Monitoring and Surveillance
This plan describes the coordinated set of operating procedures for medical interventions to be implemented for migrants landing on Sicilian shores, taking into account both healthcare at disembarkation and healthcare administered in first reception centres. This plan applies both to planned landings in the context of search and rescue operations at sea (SAR) and other planned operations, and to unplanned landings. This plan also applies to landings on the Island of Lampedusa and other minor islands of Sicily and does not contradict the ‘Recommendations for the management of healthcare problems related to the influx of migrants on small islands’ issued by the Ministry of Health on 5 November 2012, – Office 3, Coordination of the Office for Maritime, Air and Border Healthcare, but instead defines all roles and skills in operational job role information.
- Maritime Border Control
This document is a common paper, produced by Frontex, EASO and EUROPOL to address directly Occupational Health and Safety (OSH) issues affecting deployments in shared operational settings. It covers deployment scenarios and sets out safety and security issues for deployed staff. The aim is to inform and to raise awareness concerning OSH-topics of particular relevance to deployments to land and sea locations within frontline states of the EU.
Contact: OSH.DMD@frontex.europa.eu
- Maritime Border Control
The objective of the RVS is to provide a list of recommended vaccinations as a prevention measure for particular communicable diseases, specifically designed for the individual and community protection of personnel assigned to Frontex coordinated operational activities. A secondary objective of the survey was to raise awareness on both the need of considering vaccinations as a useful tool to improve the OSH of all personnel deployed by Frontex via national partner authorities, and on the importance of recommendations/procedures for such personnel.
Contact: OSH.DMD@frontex.europa.eu
- Maritime Border Control
This study examines how border security research is set up, managed and operationalised in and beyond Europe.
Link: https://prd.frontex.europa.eu/wp-content/uploads/study-from-lab-to-field-challenges-and-oportunities-for-operationalizing-border-security-research.pdf
- Maritime Border Control
Frontex has developed this manual to promote a shared understanding of child protection and build cross-border cooperation in this field among Member States’ border guard agencies and third countries. With it, we aim to enhance the awareness and improve the professional skills of border guards in the area of child protection. Border guards should understand the concept of child protection and be able to apply the relevant standards to their everyday work. This comprehensive and operational manual builds on best practices and real-life-based case studies. It results from a joint effort that has drawn on the knowledge and expertise of a multidisciplinary team of experts from EU Member States, EU agencies, third countries and international and non-governmental organisations.
Contact: HoU.TRU@frontex.europa.eu
Link: https://myfx.frontex.europa.eu/cases/PRJ36/PRJ-2018-00009/Documents/40%20Deliverables/Project%20Components/VEGA/Training%20handbooks/Frontex%20Training%20on%20the%20Protection%20of%20Children%20at%20the%20Border.pdf#search=Frontex%20course%20manual%20on%20the%20protection%20of%20children%20at%20the%20borders
- Maritime Border Control
Frontex Mental Health Strategy has been drafted to support Member States in strengthening their capacities in fulfilling their ‘duty of care’ in the area of occupational mental health and to encourage both the Agency and national border guarding services to introduce measures preventing mental health risks and promoting psychosocial well-being ‘of the participants in Frontex joint operations’.
Contact: OSH.DMD@frontex.europa.eu
Link: https://myfx.frontex.europa.eu/cases/PRJ36/PRJ-2018-00009/Documents/40%20Deliverables/Translations/Mental%20Health%20Strategy/Mental%20Health%20Strategy_WEB_V2.pdf#search=Frontex%20Mental%20Health%20Strategy%20%282016%29
- Maritime Border Control
Designed specifically as a ‘manual for the trainer’ for use in the training of fisheries officials, Union Inspectors before their first deployment, as well as other officials in the Member States and the Commission, in the general principles and specific types of fisheries inspection.
https://training.efca.europa.eu/
- Fisheries Inspection & Control
- Maritime Accident and Disaster Response
Provides a harmonised approach to the enforcement of Directive 2000/59/EC on Port Reception Facilities for Ship-
Generated Waste and Cargo Residues (hereafter referred to as ‘the PRF Directive’)
The guidance was prepared in close cooperation with the European Commission (DG MOVE), member states and
industry within the context of the European Sustainable Shipping Forum. It aims to support port authorities and
administrations backing the use of LNG as a ship fuel, as part of a joint effort to increase safety and sustainability.
The purpose of the Incident Reporting Guidelines is to provide information and advice to SafeSeaNet users in
Member States and participating EFTA States on how and when to report and share, through SSN, information on
incidents and accidents. This will enable harmonisation of the procedures between users in accordance with the
requirements of Directive 2002/59/ EC, as amended. The guidelines also make clear the benefits accrued as a
result of users sharing such information. The document does not introduce any additional reporting requirements
for ships not already under such obligation according to the Directive 2002/59/ EC as amended or under any
relevant EU legislation.
https://www.emsa.europa.eu/ssn-main/documents/item/1137-ssn-incident-report-guidelines-v120.html