Translation of "Bureau Frontex pour les opérations de retour " (French → English) :

A FRONTEX Code of Conduct (CoC) for JROs was adopted on 7 October 2013, focusing on effective forced return monitoring procedures and respect of returnees’ fundamental rights and dignity during return operations.

The Commission has presented an EU Action Plan on Return which defines the immediate and mid-term measures to be taken by Member States to enhance voluntary return, to strengthen the implementation of the Return Directive, to improve information sharing, to strengthen the role and mandate of Frontex in return operations, and to create an integrated system of return management.

Between 2006 and December 2013, FRONTEX coordinated 209 Joint Return Operations (JROs) returning 10 855 people.[11] Since 2007, FRONTEX has provided standardised training for return officers focusing on safeguarding returnees’ fundamental rights and dignity during forced return operations.[12] Since Article 8(6) of the Return Directive on forced return monitoring became binding in 2010, half of all JROs have been the subject of monitoring by independent monitors who were physically present from the start of the operation until arrival at the airport of destination.

It responds to the Commission’s obligation to submit a report to the European Parliament and the Council on the implementation of the Return Directive, the main piece of EU acquis on return[2] (see the detailed part IV of this Communication), as well as to the political commitment made by the Commission when the amended FRONTEX Regulation was adopted in 2011 to report on the monitoring of return operations coordinated by FRONTEX (s ...[+++]ee section II.4.2).