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 

Since Directive 2005/35/EC on ship-source pollution and on the introduction of penalties, including criminal
penalties, for pollution offences was adopted; progress has been made by Member States in addressing illegal
discharges in the marine environment.

https://emsa.europa.eu/publications/inventories/item/1879-addressing-illegal-discharges-in-the-marine-environment.html

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.

https://emsa.europa.eu/publications/item/720-eu-states-claims-management-guidelines-claims-arising-due-to-maritime-pollution-incidents.html

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.

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

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.

https://www.efca.europa.eu/sites/default/files/Technical%20guidelines%20and%20specifications%20for%20the%20implementation%20of%20Remote%20Electronic%20Monitoring%20%28REM%29%20in%20EU%20fisheries.pdf

The document sets out good or best practices in the practical conduct of boarding during Frontex-coordinated Maritime Joint Operation. Within this framework, a working group was set up to collect experience from the practitioners in the field, by evaluating the response to incidents, the preparedness and the lessons identified and learned, assessing the difference in approach between authorities and the interpretation of the legal framework supporting the activities.

Contact: HoS.CGS@frontex.europa.eu; cgs.ot@frontex.europa.eu  

Link: https://myfx.frontex.europa.eu/cases/GRP209/GRP-2021-00010/Documents/2022/9.%20Documents%20referred%20to%20in%20the%20OPLANs/2.%20Sea/Handbook%20on%20Boarding%20in%20Frontex%20Coordinated%20Joint%20Maritime%20Operations%20Best%20Practices%20&%20Guidelines.pdf#search=Boarding%20in%20Frontex%2Dcoordinated%20Joint%20Maritime%20Operation 

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

This document is intended to provide guidance for a harmonised approach to the inspection of ships, ascertaining their compliance, identifying non-compliances and applying control procedures for the enforcement of Directive (EU) 2016/802 (codification of Council Directive 1999/32/EC), as regards the sulphur content of marine fuels.

https://emsa.europa.eu/newsroom/latest-news/item/2407-sulphur-inspection-guidance.html

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