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:
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 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