Dear European Border and Coast Guard Agency,

Under Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, I hereby submit a renewed application for access to documents concerning the Joint Operations Reporting Application (JORA), covering the period 1 September 2021 – 30 April 2025.

In your decision PAD-2025-00184 (16 May 2025), Frontex stated:
“At this point, please also note that the present decision does not determine the form of access within the legal framework of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 to the JORA data pertaining to the timeframe post 23.01.2025 after the conclusion of the operational evaluation phase later this year. Frontex will consider such access should you decide to submit a new application for public access to documents in this regard pursuant to Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001.”

As the operational evaluation phase referred to in that decision has now concluded (as indicated by Frontex to be expected in late Q2 / early Q3 2025), I am submitting the new application explicitly anticipated by the Agency. In addition, confirmatory application of PAD-2025-00184 resulted in a partial release of JORA data that was so heavily redacted as to be largely devoid of informative value, despite the fact that certain variables had been previously disclosed in PAD-2024-00023 (16 February 2024) as well as similar requests for earlier periods.

This constitutes a new legal and factual situation warranting reassessment under Articles 6 and 7 of Regulation 1049/2001.

Accordingly, I respectfully request:

1. Access to all JORA variables covering the period 1 September 2021 – 30 April 2025, including data previously withheld on the basis of ongoing evaluations or operational sensitivity, now that the relevant evaluation phase has concluded.

2. Explicit access to the following JORA variables, which were redacted in PAD-2025-00184 but previously disclosed:
- Detection by Frontex financed/deployed asset
- Interception by Frontex financed/deployed asset
- Frontex deployed/financed asset involved
- Transport type

Given their prior disclosure without identifiable harm, the conditions for applying Article 4(1)(a) of Regulation 1049/2001 to these variables are no longer met.

3. Any documents or internal communications confirming or determining the conclusion of the operational evaluation phase referred to in PAD-2025-00184, insofar as they relate to the reassessment of access to JORA data.

This application is based on:
- A new factual circumstance explicitly identified by Frontex itself (the conclusion of the evaluation phase);
- Inconsistent application of Article 4(1)(a) in relation to variables previously released;
- The obligation to interpret exceptions strictly and proportionately, and to grant partial access wherever possible.

Please provide all correspondence and documents via the AskTheEU.org portal, in line with the European Ombudsman’s decision in case 104/2020/EWM.

Yours faithfully,
Giovanna Reder