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    Frontex Consultative Forum and Fundamental Rights Officer

    2012-04-27

    The amended Frontex Regulation in Article 26a mandates that Frontex shall establish a Consultative Forum (CF) and designate a Fundamental Rights Officer (FRO). In February 2012, Frontex Management Board (MB) established a Drafting Advisory Committee (DAC) composed of representatives of the Management Board (Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the European Commission), joined at a later stage – for the discussion on the Consultative Forum only – by representatives of the partner organisations mentioned in Article 26a of the Regulation (FRA, EASO and UNHCR). The DAC shall advise and guide the Agency in the preparations of the relevant Frontex Management Board Decisions in view of implementing the abovementioned Article.

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    Annual Risk Analysis 2012

    2012-04-20

    Frontex published its Annual Risk Analysis (ARA) for 2012 on April 19. The document, available through the Frontex website, presents an analysis of events related to border control as well as to illegal border crossing and different forms of cross-border crime during 2011. Developed together with those Member State border authorities comprising the Frontex Risk Analysis Network (FRAN), ARA 2012 presents the main trends of last year along with probable future developments and recommendations for action.

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    JO Hermes – Situational Update

    2012-02-21

    Warsaw, February 21, 2012 — Since the beginning of 2012, some 130 migrants have been detected in the operational area of JO Hermes, south of the Italian island of Lampedusa. The migrants, Tunisian and Somali nationals, used small and medium-sized rubber boats to reach Italy. This is a dramatic decrease in detections in comparison with the same period last year when over 5000 Tunisians had arrived on Lampedusa by mid-February. In 2011 this increased migratory flow triggered the launch of the Hermes operation, which began on 20 February 2011 and will continue until the end of 2012.

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