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 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 

The objective of the CIRAM is to establish a conceptual framework to assist Frontex and Member States in the preparation of risk analyses and to promote a common understanding of risk analysis. The CIRAM establish a clear and transparent methodology for risk analysis, which should serve as a benchmark for analytical activities, thus promoting harmonisation and the preconditions for efficient information exchange and cooperation in the field of border security.

Contact: HoU.ANALYSIS@frontex.europa.eu

Link: https://www.frontex.europa.eu/what-we-do/monitoring-and-risk-analysis/ciram/

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 

The CCC offers a set of standards for national border guard training institutions, teachers and students in all EU Member States. The CCC for border guard basic training in the EU (including Iceland, Norway and Switzerland) consists of a General Part and separate air, land and sea border modules.

Contact: HoU.TRU@frontex.europa.eu 

Link: https://myfx.frontex.europa.eu/cases/PRJ36/PRJ-2018-00009/Documents/40%20Deliverables/Glossary/Tri-Lingual%20Glossary%20(aka%20Alef)/Sources/List%20of%20Sources-Publications/Common%20Core%20Curriculum%20for%20Border%20and%20Coast%20Guard%20Basic%20Training%20in%20the%20EU.pdf#search=Common%20Core%20Curriculum

This trainer’s manual aims at providing a modern training package for trainers of first- and second-line border guards. The training material comprises three training modules: Awareness, Identification and Interviewing. Trafficking of children is incorporated as a separate section in all three modules.

Contact: HoU.TRU@frontex.europa.eu 

The night vision goggles (NVG) Training procedures manual contains clear guidelines for instructors to train crew members of the Member States (MS)/ Schengen Associated Countries (SAC) in the use of NVG.

Contact: HoU.TRU@frontex.europa.eu