46 results for "rapid intervention"
2011-05-11
Frontex’s Annual Risk Analysis 2011 records the main trends in regular and irregular migration into the European Union in 2010 and offers predictions for the coming year’s trends. Regarding irregular migration, the sharp decrease reported in 2009 (of around a third on 2008) stabilised in 2010; Member States and Schengen Associated Countries reported a total of 104,049 detections of illegal border crossing at the sea and land external borders, a total almost identical to the 2009 figure of ...
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2011-07-21
The latest report by the Frontex Risk Analysis Network (FRAN) shows a clear shift from the East to the Central Mediterranean as the focus for irregular migration at the EU’s external borders. For the first time since the beginning of data collection in 2008,detections of illegal border crossings in the first quarter of the year (Q1) exceeded those for the previous quarter. The shift, from the Greek-Turkish land border to the Italian sea border, specifically to Lampedusa and other Pelagic ...
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The European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) is governed by Regulation (EU) 2019/1896 of 13 November 2019 on the European Border and Coast Guard (OJ L 295, 14.11.2019, p. 1). The abovementioned Regulation provides the Agency with a reinforced mandate and increased competences compared with those provided by Regulation (EU) 2016/1624 , taking the form of, for example, the European Border and Coast Guard Standing Corps (the EU’s first uniformed service). The headquarters of Frontex...
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2011-04-01
Files available for download Publications/Risk_Analysis/Annual_Risk_Analysis_2011.pdf (14.8 MB) Irregular migration represents a small proportion of the total movement of persons across the borders, three quarters of which are EU nationals. Over 100 nationalities require a visa to enter the EU, accounting for more than 80% of the non-EU population, while about 1 billion nationals from 37 countries do not require a visa. As yet, there are no precise statistics available on passenger flows for ...
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EU-wide picture Frontex knows what’s going on at Europe’s borders: where the threats are, how to react, and where they’re likely to emerge next. Our 24/7 monitoring of the situation on the border and beyond, combined with comprehensive risk analysis, gives us a Europe-wide view of border control and migration management. Frontex helps spot potential weak points and strengthen Europe’s resilience. We do this by using our own surveillance assets and by receiving, integrating, analysing and...
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2013-01-30
In the southern Italian town of Gaeta, 24 border guards from 13 EU countries gathered in early December 2012. Gaeta is renowned as a summer holiday resort, but just before Christmas the weather is wet and windy, which is not inappropriate. The border guards were there to prepare for possible storms of a different kind — emergencies at the external borders of the European Union. Through a revision to the Frontex Regulation in 2011, Frontex’s pool of Joint Support Teams (FJST) and the ...
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