JORA variables for Boat Interceptions under Operations Triton, Themis, Sophia, and Irini (2014-2023)

Paul Michel made this access to documents request to European Border and Coast Guard Agency

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Paul Michel
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Dear European Border and Coast Guard Agency,

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which contain the following information:

JORA variables for migrant boat interceptions under Operations Triton, Themis, Sophia, and Irini (2014-2023).

Operation/Year
Detection date
Search and rescue involved
Incidents
Total number of irregular migrants
Death cases
Irregular migrants in SAR cases
Type of detected by
Latitude detection
Longitude detection
Latitude interception
Longitude interception
Detection by Frontex financed/deployed asset
Type of intercepted by
Interception by Frontex financed/deployed asset
Operational area
Transport type
Reference to op.area
Frontex financed/deployed asset during an incident
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Country/place of departure
Number of transport means
Number of people
Additional Vessel Information (IMO/MMSI identifier or name of the vessel)

My request is based on the partially successful requests of Giacomo Battiston in September 2017 (https://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/boat...) and Katherine Hoffmann in July 2010 (https://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/jora...). Both requests closely mirror my needs. I would like to access similar data and inquire about an extended time frame.

Thank you for considering my request.

Sincerely,
Paul Michel

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Paul Michel
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Dear European Border and Coast Guard Agency,

Thank you for your quick response. I tried to access your message using the Token and Case ID you provided, but received an error: "Invalid token data provided". I have tried it multiple times and used all my email addresses. I seems that other requesters had similar problems accessing your responses (see for example https://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/jora...). Can you please assist me in this?

Yours faithfully,

Paul Michel

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Dear Mr/Ms Paul Michel,

Further to your email of 2 June 2023

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Dear European Border and Coast Guard Agency,

Thank you for your quick response. I tried to access your message using the Token and Case ID you provided, but received an error: "Invalid token data provided". I have tried it multiple times and used all my email addresses. I seems that other requesters had similar problems accessing your responses (see for example https://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/jora...). Can you please assist me in this?

Yours faithfully,

Paul Michel

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Paul Michel
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Dear European Border and Coast Guard Agency,


I have received an email on June 6th with the following contents:

New information regarding your application is available under this link https://pad.frontex.europa.eu/PadCases/P...
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Email: [email address]
Case Id: PAD-2023-00194

Please be informed that the link is valid until Wednesday, 06 August 2025



When I tried to access your message using the information you provided, I again received an error: "Invalid token data provided". I tried it both with my work email address as indicated in your message and the email address "[email address]" that has been generated by asktheeu and that I used to access all your previous messages. I would highly appreciate if you could get back to me and help me with this.



Sincerely,

Paul Michel

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Dear Mr/Ms Paul Michel,

Thank you for your correspondence.

Please be informed that we have sent you a new access link to your work email address (having replaced your initial "@asktheeu.org" address, as requested) for your convenience.

Kindly note that every time Frontex replies to your request for public access to documents, a new token is issued. Tokens are functional for 26 months.

Yours sincerely,

Frontex Transparency Office
European Border and Coast Guard Agency - Frontex

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Paul Michel
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Dear European Border and Coast Guard Agency,

I wish to acknowledge and express my gratitude for the receipt of your response regarding my application for access to Frontex documents, dated 7 June 2023, with the reference PAD-2023-00194.

There are still some open issues pertaining to the data you provided:

- Can you please specify what the values of the “SAR” variable (Yes, No, N/A) exactly refer to?
- What exactly does the variable “ReferenceToOpArea” indicate?
- Can you please provide clarification as to what is meant by “TypeOfDetectedBy” and what the corresponding values (HELO, FWA, MAS) refer to?
- Can you please specify what the following values of the “TyoeOfInterceptedBy” variable refer to and how they substantively differ from each other? BGO, OPV, CPB, CPV, Second-Line Officer.
- Please provide a concise description of the "num_TransportMeansNumber" variable.

Furthermore, your decision to withhold access to the detection and interception coordinates is noted. The rationale provided pertains to the preservation of operational confidentiality, considering the overlap between ongoing and previous operations. I respectfully appeal this determination, aligned with the arguments advanced by Battiston in his request (https://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/boat...). It is pertinent to highlight that you granted Battiston access to analogous information via a private email exchange (refer to his statements in the paper, page 60, https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ct8qe4x71l7hj...). Given this precedent, I find no compelling grounds to dismiss my request.

I extend my sincere appreciation for your collaboration in this matter.

Yours sincerely,
Paul Michel

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