Frontex’ Programme of Work 2014

The Programme of Work is Frontex’ operative plan which contains the key business areas and proposes the activities that should be carried out to achieve the objectives and long term goals as agreed in Frontex’ Strategy and Multi Annual Plan.

During 2014, Frontex’ operational activities will be grouped under two approaches which are applicable to all types of borders:

Platform based operational activities (to develop and intensify the use of multipurpose operations at air, sea and land borders as a permanent platform for providing sustaining operational presence and information exchange/gathering in areas exposed to specific and disproportionate pressure; for reinforcement at external borders when needed and for strengthening interagency
cooperation and gaining border related intelligence) and

Flexible operational activities and return operations (to further develop and use flexible cooperation frameworks enabling MS/SAC to increase situational awareness, response,
interoperability and performance to tackle identified threats and risks affecting the EU external border, thus substantially contributing to the situational awareness according to the EUROSUR objectives)

Geographically and/or topical the focus of those operational activities will remain on
+ Eastern, South Eastern and Western Balkan areas
+ Eastern Europe, and
+ Identified Eastern, Central, Western Mediterranean Regions migratory routes and Atlantic Ocean
+ Further developing cooperation with non-EU Countries and with EU Agencies and International Organisations (Europol, FRA, Interpol, UNHCR, IOM)

Compared to previous years the following issues will drive further changes to the structure and allocation of resources reflected in the annual programme of work:
+ the further development, implementation and operationalisation of the EUROSUR framework
concept
+ the operational support to Greece and Italy aimed at building sustainable capacity for border
management, giving added value at the EU level,
+ the utilization of new structures (e.g. European Border Guard Teams - EBGT) and types of officers (Seconded Guest Officer - SGO and Frontex’ coordination officer - FCO) including training;
+ further and refined implementation measures related to Frontex’ amended mandate;

In 2014, Frontex will continue to be in a situation where prioritisation is needed. Financing of prioritised tasks will lead to a slow down and postponement of other implementation measures of lower priority.

Frontex: Governance documents 2014 http://frontex.europa.eu/about-frontex/governance-documents/2014

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