The document sets out good or best practices in the practical conduct of boarding during Frontex-coordinated Maritime Joint Operation. Within this framework, a working group was set up to collect experience from the practitioners in the field, by evaluating the response to incidents, the preparedness and the lessons identified and learned, assessing the difference in approach between authorities and the interpretation of the legal framework supporting the activities.

Contact: HoS.CGS@frontex.europa.eu; cgs.ot@frontex.europa.eu  

Link: https://myfx.frontex.europa.eu/cases/GRP209/GRP-2021-00010/Documents/2022/9.%20Documents%20referred%20to%20in%20the%20OPLANs/2.%20Sea/Handbook%20on%20Boarding%20in%20Frontex%20Coordinated%20Joint%20Maritime%20Operations%20Best%20Practices%20&%20Guidelines.pdf#search=Boarding%20in%20Frontex%2Dcoordinated%20Joint%20Maritime%20Operation 

This document is a common paper, produced by Frontex, EASO and EUROPOL to address directly Occupational Health and Safety (OSH) issues affecting deployments in shared operational settings. It covers deployment scenarios and sets out safety and security issues for deployed staff. The aim is to inform and to raise awareness concerning OSH-topics of particular relevance to deployments to land and sea locations within frontline states of the EU.

Contact: OSH@frontex.europa.eu

Frontex Code of Conduct sets out the basic principles serving as a framework for persons who are seconded national experts, other law enforcement officers or officers or participants from third countries in any Frontex operational activity. Aims to promote general values intended to guarantee the principles of the rule of law and respect for fundamental rights with particular focus on vulnerable persons, as well as on persons seeking international protection.

Link: https://myfx.frontex.europa.eu/cases/GRP36/GRP-2017-00036/Documents/Materials%20for%20newcomers/CODE%20OF%20CONDUCT/Code_of_conduct_applicable_to_all_persons_particiating_in_Frontex_operational_activities.pdf

The objective of the CIRAM is to establish a conceptual framework to assist Frontex and Member States in the preparation of risk analyses and to promote a common understanding of risk analysis. The CIRAM establish a clear and transparent methodology for risk analysis, which should serve as a benchmark for analytical activities, thus promoting harmonisation and the preconditions for efficient information exchange and cooperation in the field of border security.

Contact: HoU.ANALYSIS@frontex.europa.eu

Link: https://www.frontex.europa.eu/what-we-do/monitoring-and-risk-analysis/ciram/

The aim of the catalogue is to provide a detailed information about services provided by Frontex to the final users (MS, EU entities and Agencies as well as other stakeholders time to time involved).

Contact:  HoU.FUSION@frontex.europa.eu 

This information package consists of four elements: practical guide on access to the asylum procedure; poster pm access to the asylum procedure; pocket book on access to the asylum procedure and frequently asked questions on access to the asylum procedure.

Contact: HoU.Academy@frontex.europa.eu

Link: Practical_Guide_Pocket_Book.pdf (europa.eu)

This manual aims to support Consular Staff in detection of falsified documents. It gives clear instructions how to check a document, provides examples of fraud and describes the printing safeguards.

Contact: HoU.Academy@frontex.europa.eu

The CCC offers a set of standards for national border guard training institutions, teachers and students in all EU Member States. The CCC for border guard basic training in the EU (including Iceland, Norway and Switzerland) consists of a General Part and separate air, land and sea border modules.

Contact: HoU.Academy@frontex.europa.eu

Link: https://myfx.frontex.europa.eu/cases/PRJ36/PRJ-2018-00009/Documents/40%20Deliverables/Glossary/Tri-Lingual%20Glossary%20(aka%20Alef)/Sources/List%20of%20Sources-Publications/Common%20Core%20Curriculum%20for%20Border%20and%20Coast%20Guard%20Basic%20Training%20in%20the%20EU.pdf#search=Common%20Core%20Curriculum

This trainer’s manual aims at providing a modern training package for trainers of first- and second-line border guards. The training material comprises three training modules: Awareness, Identification and Interviewing. Trafficking of children is incorporated as a separate section in all three modules.

Contact: HoU.Academy@frontex.europa.eu

The night vision goggles (NVG) Training procedures manual contains clear guidelines for instructors to train crew members of the Member States (MS)/ Schengen Associated Countries (SAC) in the use of NVG.

Contact: HoU.Academy@frontex.europa.eu