Catalogue of Best Practices, Guidelines, and Manuals
The The Best Practice Guidelines and Manuals Catalogue made available on this online platform constitutes a non-exhaustive compilation of documents of relevance to coast guard functions, originating from EFCA, EMSA, and Frontex.
Additional information may be accessed through the following official sources:
Designed specifically for the training of fisheries officials, Union Inspectors before their first deployment, as well as other officials in the Member States and the Commission. This is a handbook for the trainee on ‘Inspections at Sea’, and contains the course substantive material and textbook, handouts and worksheets. The handbook is meant to help trainees to understand an inspection at sea.
- Fisheries Inspection & Control
Designed specifically for the training of fisheries officials, Union Inspectors before their first deployment, as well as other officials in the Member States and the Commission. This is a handbook for the trainee on ‘Port Fisheries Inspections – Landing Inspection’, and contains the course substantive material and textbook, handouts and worksheets. The handbook is meant to help trainees to understand a Port Fisheries Inspection – Landing Inspection.
- Fisheries Inspection & Control
Designed specifically for the training of fisheries officials, Union Inspectors before their first deployment, as well as other officials in the Member States and the Commission. This is a handbook for the trainee on ‘Port Fisheries Inspections – Transhipment Inspection’, and contains the course substantive material and textbook, handouts and worksheets. The handbook is meant to help trainees to understand a Port Fisheries Inspection – Transhipment Inspection.
https://www.efca.europa.eu/sites/default/files/atoms/files/Transhipment%20handbook.pdf
- Fisheries Inspection & Control
The objective of this course is to provide an overview of the wide variety of systems and tools used in a Fisheries
Monitoring Centre (FMC) and to demonstrate how they are used to gather and manage operational data,
information and possibly intelligence. The course shows how this in turn is used to direct the control and
enforcement assets in the most efficient and effective manner.
- Fisheries Inspection & Control
- Maritime Monitoring and Surveillance
This document represents an overview of the methodology to guide this process, introducing the concept of
indicators, explaining how they can be used to measure compliance in fisheries, listing the properties that
characterise a good indicator and detailing how the procedure of incorporating indicators can take place at
national and regional level. With the use of these tools and following the methodology proposed, harmonised
compliance-based benchmarks can be obtained and a level playing field will be achieved.
https://www.efca.europa.eu/en/content/indicators-compliance-fisheries
- Fisheries Inspection & Control
The aim of this document is to present the generic principles and guidelines of risk assessment (RA) conducted by
the European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA) as a key tool for the implementation of the Specific Control and
Inspection Programmes (SCIPs) agreed end of December 2018 and for the strategic planning of Joint Deployment
Plans (JDPs).
https://www.efca.europa.eu/en/content/guidelines-risk-assessment-methodology-fisheries-compliance
- Fisheries Inspection & Control
The scope of this document is to describe minimum technical requirements and standards for REM systems, which
could be used as a tool to monitor and document compliance with the CFP landing obligation in EU fisheries. It is
meant as a guidance document for MS authorities to be used for the potential implementation of REM on their
vessels with the purpose of monitoring and control of the landing obligation and related provisions. The document
also seeks to highlight particular issues that require attention when implementing and using a REM system.
- Fisheries Inspection & Control
- Maritime Monitoring and Surveillance
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.