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Ref. Ares(2018)1585554 - 22/03/2018
EUROPEAN COMMISSION 
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL MIGRATION AND HOME AFFAIRS 
Catania/Rome, 22nd March 2018 
Minutes of EURTF weekly meeting on 21st March 2018, 11:00 – 12:00 
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• Concerning episode involving NGO ship Proactiva Open Arms, according to FX
information the ship was initially tasked by IT MRCC for a SAR event off Libyan coasts.
Subsequently IT MRCC asked the ship to leave SAR event to LBY CG, however NGO
ship refused to cooperate with LBY CG and headed north. Sanitary case with mother and
newly born child evacuated to Malta. Open Arms contacted then IT asking for POS,
however POS was assigned only after that Open Arms entered IT territorial water. Despite
criticisms addressed to FX, the agency was not involved in this event.
• Currently two NGOs are present, Acquarius and Proactiva Open Arms, cooperation si
going generally well and reports are provided before disembarkations. However at the
moment no NGOs is reported to be active in operational area, Proactiva Open Arms seized
by Catania judicial authority in Port of Pozzallo.

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