This Frontex Air-Crew Training Manual is the first step towards a unified European air operation system for border guards and police forces. A high level of flight safety through common training standards, the sharing of best practices, and harmonised procedures is the way forward to ensure successful future Joint Operations (JOs) in European border security. The main objective of this training manual is to set common training standards for both national and Frontex training.

This Manual sets common standards within Frontex Air-Crew Training for JOs for the following:

- meteorological flight minima

- proposals for the minimum flight crew

- description of training needs for air-crew members’ standardisation

- description of common training courses.

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.

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.

https://training.efca.europa.eu/

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