Frontex Motto: Libertas Securitas Justitia "Freedom Security Justice" Location Warsaw, Poland Signed October 26, 2004 Established May 1, 2005 Pillar European Communities Director Ilkka Laitinen Website frontex.europa.eu

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Contents 1 Responsibilities 2 Staff and Resources 3 See also 4 External links 5 Footnotes

Responsibilities

Frontex' mission is to help EU Member States implement EU rules on external border controls and to coordinate operational cooperation between Member States in the field of external border management. A Member State of the European Union is any one of the twenty-seven sovereign Nation states that have acceded the European Union (EU since its De facto Border controls are measures used by a Country to monitor or regulate its Borders The control of the flow of people animals and goods across a border may be controlled While it remains the task of each member state to control its own borders, the Agency is vested with the function to ensure that they all do so with the same high standard of efficiency.

The main tasks of the agency include:

• coordination of operational cooperation between Member States in the field of management of external borders;
• assistance to Member States in the training of national border guards
• carrying out risk analysis;
• following up the development of research relevant for the control and surveillance of external borders;
• assistance to Member States in circumstances requiring increased technical and operational assistance at external borders;
• providing Member States with the necessary support in organising joint return operations.

Staff and Resources

The Agency is managed by its Executive Director, Ilkka Laitinen. Ilkka Laitinen is a Finnish politician currently serving as the Executive Director of the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders The agency initially struggled to recruit staff ^[1] due to its location in Warsaw, which offered lower pay than some other cities, and the unclear agency mandate. Warsaw (Warszawa; also known by other names) is the Capital and Largest city of Poland.

Equipment

Aeroplanes	20
Helicopters	~30
Vessels	~100

Special European forces of rapidly deployable border guards were created by EU interior ministers in April 2007 to assist in border control, particularly on Europe's southern coastlines. Overview Fixed-wing aircraft range from small training and recreational aircraft to Wide-body aircraft and military cargo aircraft. History Since 400 AD Chinese children have played with bamboo flying toys. A ship /ʃɪp/ is a large vessel that floats on water Ships are generally distinguished from Boats based on size ^[2] Frontex's European Patrols Network began work in the Canary Islands in May 2007. The Canary Islands ( English pronunciation kəˈnæriː ˈaɪləndz Spanish: Islas Canarias, ˈizlas kaˈnarjas are a Spanish ^[3]

See also

• Schengen Agreement
  • Schengen Information System
  • Eurodac
• European Commissioner for Justice, Freedom & Security
• Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
• Police and Judicial Co-operation in Criminal Matters
• Geography of the European Union
• Countries bordering the European Union

External links

• Frontex Info
• Official site
• Founding act of Frontex

Footnotes

1. ^ Staff woes hit EU border agency BBC News
2. ^ EU agrees rapid reaction anti-immigration units euobserver. The term Schengen Agreement is used for two agreements concluded among European states in 1985 and 1990 which deal with the abolition of systematic Border controls The Schengen Information System, also called “ SIS ” is a secure Governmental database system used by several European countries for the purpose of maintaining EURODAC, which stands for European Dactyloscopie is the European fingerprint database for identifying Asylum seekers and irregular border-crossers The Commissioner for Justice Freedom & Security is the member of the European Commission. The Committee on Civil Liberties Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE is a standing Committee of the European Parliament. Police and Judicial Co-operation in Criminal Matters (PJC formally Justice and Home Affairs (JHA is the third of the three pillars of the European Union The European Union primarily occupies a large portion of Western and Central Europe, covering 4422773 Square kilometres (1707642  This is a list of countries bordering the European Union, and its predecessor the European Community, both at its current geographical extent and after com
3. ^ EU border agency starts sea patrols euobserver. com

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