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Oliver SEIFFARTH DG Home Affairs European Commission. Security Research Conference 2010, Kursaal Oostende, 22 September 2010 The development of the European Border Surveillance System (EUROSUR). Canary Islands. Libya. Turkey Eastern Med. Migration routes into the Schengen area.
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Oliver SEIFFARTHDG Home Affairs European Commission Security Research Conference 2010, Kursaal Oostende, 22 September 2010 The development of the European Border Surveillance System (EUROSUR)
Canary Islands Libya Turkey Eastern Med Migration routes into the Schengen area
Current main challenge: Detection, tracking & interception of small boats, used for illegal migration and cross-border crime (e.g. narcotics trafficking). CENTRO DE COORDINACIÓN REGIONAL DE CANARIAS
EUROSUR Definition(COM(2008)68final of 13.2.2008) • Information sharing and cooperation mechanism enabling Member States' border control authorities and FRONTEX to improve their situational awareness and reaction capabilities with the aimto • reduce number of illegal migrants entering EU undetected; • reduce the death toll of migrants at sea; • increase internal security by preventing cross-border crime. • “Federation of systems”, using existing systems (e.g. AIS, SafeSeaNet) and common surveillance tools (e.g. satellites). • Development in 3 phasesand 8 separate, but interlinked steps. • Testing/validationin pilot and FP7 projects. • Implementation by Member States,partly at EU level (e.g. FRONTEX, Global Monitoring for Environment and Security/GMES).
EUROSUR - PHASE 1 PHASE 1:Streamlining at MS level
PHASE 1: Streamlining at MS level • As of2008:Setting up of national coordination centres (NCC) and national surveillance systems. • 2008-2010:Guidelines for cooperation between NCCs / FRONTEX. • 2009: FRONTEXassessment on EU external borders and needed infrastructure in third countries. • 2009-2010:Management & technical concepts for NCCs and national systems and specifications for communication network. • 2010-2011:Pilot project and data model for the communication network. • 2011: Legislative proposal.
PHASE 2: Common tools at EU level • As of2008:FP7 space/ security research program used for EUROSUR goals. • 2008-2010:GMES concept on how to receive data from satellites/UAVs for border surveillance purposes. • 2009-2010: Specifications for common pre-frontier intelligence picture(CPIP) to be managed by FRONTEX. • 2011-2014: FP7 integration & demonstration projects to test EUROSUR components.
PHASE 3: Common info sharing environment COM(2009)538 of 15.10.2009 INFORMATION LAYERS NATIONAL AUTHORITIES User-defined Situational Picture Defence PT MARSUR Internal security EUROSUR ? Information sharing Fishery control VMS Maritime authority SAFESEANET SAFESEANET