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    Frontex Consultative Forum on Fundamental Rights: Public Call for Applications for Civil Society Organisations

    2012-05-29

    Pursuant to Article 26a (2) of the amended Frontex Regulation, Frontex shall establish a Consultative Forum on Fundamental Rights (CF), a knowledge and expertise resource body to enable the Agency to gain information and advice relevant to the aim of developing and promoting the full respect of Fundamental Rights in all the Agency’s activities.

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    Third European Day for Border Guards

    2012-05-29

    Frontex held its third annual European Day for Border Guards (ED4BG) on May 24. This year’s edition of ED4BG hosted record numbers of participants and speakers as well as exhibitors from private industry and the border authorities of the Member States and International Organisations. The event’s main discussion this year was entitled “Gates or Bridges? The future of border control” during which expert views on the most important issues of the times were shared by representatives of IOM, Europol, Frontex and researchers.

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    Frontex signs a Memorandum of Understanding with Turkey

    2012-05-28

    Representatives of Frontex and the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs signed today a memorandum of understanding in the agency’s Headquarters in Warsaw. Frontex Executive Director Ilkka Laitinen and Director General for Consular Affairs of Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs H.E. Ambassador Şakir Fakılı signed the document, which promotes establishment of practical cooperation between Frontex and Turkish authorities competent in border management. Frontex and the Turkish authorities agree to cooperation in the fields of risk analysis, training as well as research and development. Moreover, Frontex and the competent Turkish authorities concur to exchange experiences and best practices in border control and foresee the possibility of deployment of Turkish officers to selected border crossing points at the external EU borders under the Focal Points project. The intended cooperation will be implemented via contact points established in the respective units for each of the areas of cooperation referred to above.

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    Frontex responds to the European Ombudsman

    2012-05-23

    Frontex has sent its response to the European Ombudsman’s enquiry related to the integration of respect of fundamental rights into the performance of its tasks. The Frontex Executive Director, Ilkka Laitinen, noted that Frontex, from the very beginning of its work, took the respect of fundamental rights as a sine qua non in the performance of all its tasks, and particularly its joint operations and that, as its operations have become more complex and challenging in recent years, Frontex quickly recognised the need for clear Fundamental Rights and other guidelines for all those taking part in the activities it organises.

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