Translation of "Frontex Return Office " (English → French) :

Identify national contact points for relocation this week to allow candidates to be swiftly identified and transferred; send a liaison officer to Italy and Greece to support on-the-spot screening; identify the reception capacity to be used for relocated people. Notify to Frontex and the European Asylum Support Office, within a week of the finalisation of national roadmaps for Support Teams for the "hotspots", what national expertise will be made available. Identify and notify to Frontex by the end of September an emergency reserve o ...[+++]f border assets which could be used in Rapid Border Intervention Teams triggered this year. Notify to the Commission by the end of September civil protection assets which will be held ready to deploy under the civil protection mechanism if called upon this year. Put in place a system of contingency planning for possible increases in asylum applications this year. Confirm continuing support to the Frontex joint operation TRITON and respond urgently to the call for assets for operation POSEIDON. Apply to Frontex for the coordination and financial support available still this year for joint return flights and pre-return assistance.

6. Welcomes the operational support which the Commission will provide to frontline Member States such as Greece, Italy and Hungary via ‘Hotspots’ by bundling experts from the EU agencies such as FRONTEX, the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) and the European police office (Europol), to help Member States with the registration of people arriving; reminds the Member States that the success of such registration centres depends on their willingness to relocate refugees from the ‘Hotspots’ to their territories; recalls that procedure ...[+++]s for the return of persons not qualifying for protection must fully comply with human rights standards and that voluntary returns should be prioritised over forced returns;

Reducing the incentives for irregular migration, notably by seconding European migration liaison officers to EU Delegations in key third countries; amending the Frontex legal basis to strengthen its role on return; a new action plan with measures that aim to transform people smuggling into high risk, low return criminal activity and addressing the root causes through development cooperation and humanitarian assistance; Border ma ...[+++]nagement – saving lives and securing external borders, notably by strengthening the role and capacity of Frontex; helping strengthen the capacity of third countries to manage their borders; pooling further, where necessary, certain coast guard functions at EU level; Europe's duty to protect: a strong common asylum policy: The priority is to ensure a full and coherent implementation of the Common European Asylum System, notably by promoting systematic identification and fingerprinting and with efforts to reduce its abuses by strengthening the Safe Country of Origin provisions of the Asylum Procedure Directive; evaluating and possibly revising the Dublin Regulation in 2016; A new policy on legal migration: The focus is on maintaining a Europe in demographic decline as an attractive destination for migrants, notably by modernising and overhauling the Blue Card scheme, by reprioritising our integration policies, and by maximising the benefits of migration policy to individuals and countries of origin, including by facilitating cheaper, faster and safer remittance transfers.

In this context, it is also pertinent to mention that on 26 April 2010 the EDPS issued an Opinion on a notification for Prior Checking received from the Data Protection Officer of the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union (FRONTEX) concerning the ‘Collection of names and certain other relevant data of returnees for join return operations (JRO)’ (hereinafter the ‘ ...[+++]Prior Check Opinion’) (4).

Member States which organise joint charter flights or which plan to organise them to involve FRONTEX, in accordance with the FRONTEX Regulation; Member States and FRONTEX to define practical arrangements for their cooperation in the organisation and implementation of joint charter flights on the basis of the lessons learned and of the best practices, to take the necessary action for this purpose and to keep them under review on the basis of the experience acquired; the Commission to conclude agreements with FRONTEX with a view to enabling access to and the use of ICO-NET; FRONTEX to draw up, in consultation with the Member States, common training standards for officers responsib ...[+++]le for removals on the basis of existing national training curricula as well as organising training courses specifically directed to officers responsible for removals and accompanying personnel during joint return operations".

The Return Action Programme , adopted by the Council on 28 November 2002, recommends in Chapter IV making the return of third country nationals illegally resident in a Member State as efficient as possible by sharing existing capacities for the organisation of joint flights among the Member States (n. 36) and points out the necessity of joint training measures for the officials with responsibility for return operations (n. 30); The Council adopted in 2004 a Decision defining the organisational arrangements which are appropriate for carrying out joint return operations by air, identifying in particular the tasks specific to the organising Member State, the t ...[+++]asks specific to the participating Member States and the common tasks; The Council, in its Conclusions adopted on 12 July 2004 on giving practical effect to the Council Decision on the organisation of joint flights , invited the European Commission and the Member States "to explore ways for the Border Management Agency to provide the necessary assistance for organising joint flights"; The FRONTEX Agency has been tasked, in the relevant Regulation, "to provide the necessary assistance for organising joint return operations of Member States" (Article 9), as well as to hold additional training courses and seminars on "subjects related to the return of third country nationals for officers of the competent national services of Member States" (Article 5) .