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

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

By providing a structured description of the hands-on activities that the Member States and Frontex need to undertake for the effective deployment of surveillance aircraft, these guidelines provide comprehensive information on the administrative and logistic processes that such deployment entails to all parties involved. Additionally, National Frontex Points of Contact (NFPOCs) and other competent national authorities may use these guidelines as a training tool as they include basic reference material for organising deployment. Hence, this publication also contributes to strengthening the interoperability and preparedness of the competent national authorities that provide or receive aerial support.

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

Following recent maritime incidents involving ships in distress in waters outside the jurisdiction of any one State,
the Member States of the European Union, together with the European Commission and the European Maritime
Safety Agency (EMSA), decided to review the framework for co-operation and co-ordination between States in such
cases, to improve the existing arrangements.

https://emsa.europa.eu/publications/reports/item/2646-places-of-refuge-eu-operational-guidelines.html

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.

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 

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.

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 

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/