EURLO locations and other return liaison officers

Nicole Ostrand made this acceso a documentos request to Agencia Europea para la gestión de la cooperación operativa en las fronteras exteriores

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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:

The locations of the EURLOs either initiated or taken over by Frontex, as of 2021.

Any other countries where Frontex has liaison officers involved in return activities, as of 2021.

Also, according the Frontex Consolidated Annual Activity Report 2020, “5 return specialist were deployed”, in addition to EURLOs (see page 17 for reference).
- Is this still the current number as of 2021?
- Are these return specialist Frontex officers or are they national officers from Member States but supported by Frontex?
- If they are national officers, please identify which MS they are from.

Yours faithfully,

Nicole Ostrand

Agencia Europea para la gestión de la cooperación operativa en las fronteras exteriores

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Press, Agencia Europea para la gestión de la cooperación operativa en las fronteras exteriores

Dear Nicole,

Thank you for contacting Frontex. This is to inform you that Media and Public Relations office took over your requests as the requests for information.

We are working on the answers and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

Kind regards,
Media and Public Relations Office

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Dear Media and Public Relations Office,

Great, thank you for letting me know. I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Yours sincerely,

Nicole Ostrand

Dear Media and Public Relations Office,

I just wanted to follow up on my request. Can you please provide me an update and indication of when I might receive a response?

I also have two other requests that were sent to you on 15 June but have not received any confirmation email. The requests are as follows:
- Training and support for third countries on returns (Case Id: PAD-2022-00218) https://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/trai...
- Collecting Return Operations (CROs) coordinated by Frontex, 2017-2021 (Case Id: PAD-2022-00220) https://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/coll...

Can you please let me know if they are with the Office and being considered?

Thanks in advance for your help!

All the best,
Nicole Ostrand

Press, Agencia Europea para la gestión de la cooperación operativa en las fronteras exteriores

Dear Nicole,

Thank you for contacting us.

We are currently working on our response and will contact you in the following days.

Kind regards,
Media and Public Relations Office

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Press, Agencia Europea para la gestión de la cooperación operativa en las fronteras exteriores

Dear Nicole,

 

Thank you for contacting Frontex.

 

Please find the answers to your questions below:

 

The locations of the EURLOs either initiated or taken over by Frontex, as
of 2021.

On 31 December 2021, there were 9 active EURLO deployments either
initiated or taken over by Frontex. They were based in the following
countries: Bangladesh (Dhaka, also covering India), Egypt (Cairo),
Ethiopia (Addis Ababa), The Gambia (Banjul), Ghana (Accra), Kenya
(Nairobi, also covering Somalia), Nigeria (Abuja), Uzbekistan (Tashkent,
also covering Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan), and Vietnam (Hanoi).

 

Any other countries where Frontex has liaison officers involved in return
activities, as of 2021.

Apart from those listed above the Agency deploys Frontex Liaison Officers
(FLOs) in non-EU countries with a generalist profile. On a case-by-case
basis, the profile may be adapted to reflect the Agency’s operational
interests towards the specific non-EU country or region (including
possible partial focus on return).

FLO Turkey, FLO Niger, FLO Senegal, FLO Western Balkans – Belgrade
(Serbia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Montenegro), FLO Western Balkans – Tirana
(Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia), FLO Eastern Partnership Countries
(Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, and Moldova).

 

Also, according the Frontex Consolidated Annual Activity Report 2020, “5
return specialist were deployed”, in addition to EURLOs (see page 17 for
reference).

- Is this still the current number as of 2021?

In 2021, 44 Return Specialists in total were deployed to host MS, as also
reported in the Consolidated Annual Activity Report 2021 available
[1]here.

 

- Are these return specialist Frontex officers or are they national
officers from Member States but supported by Frontex?

As of 2021 Frontex deploys Standing Corps Return Specialists both from MS
and from Frontex.

 

- If they are national officers, please identify which MS they are from

The Member States that offered the deployment of operational staff within
the European Border and Coast Guard Standing Corps for 2021 are listed in
the Management Board Decision 9/2020 of 3 April 2020 available [2]here.

 

Kind regards,

Media and Public Relations Office

 

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Dear Media and Public Relations Office,

Thank you so much for the replay and answers to my questions. I sincerely appreciate it!

Could you please re-send the link to the Consolidated Annual Activity Report 2021? It did not show up in your response and I am unable to find the report on the Frontex website or through a google search.

Thanks in advance!

Yours sincerely,
Nicole Ostrand

Press, Agencia Europea para la gestión de la cooperación operativa en las fronteras exteriores

Dear Nicole,

The Consolidated Annual Activity Report 2021 is available in our Public Register of Documents (https://prd.frontex.europa.eu/?form-fiel...) in the form of a downloadable pdf file.

Kind regards,
Media and Public Relations Office

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