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EU: FRONTEX-EU's External Borders Agency: Management Board: Analysis and Assessment of Frontex' Annual Activity Report 2009

01 July 2010

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Analysis and Assessment of Frontex' Annual Activity Report 2009 (pdf). This includes a demand that Frontex be allowed to collect, store and exchange personal data: "effectiveness could be increased by enriching intelligence and intelligence products with personal data. Furthermore, operational/administrative task could be conducted in a more effective way in a centralised system". Frontex wants to become an independent intelligence-gathering agency and is particularly keen to exchange personal data with the USA. There is no reference to Europol's long-standing role in gathering intelligence held in its Analysis Work Files (AWF's).

See also the reservations in the Opinion of the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) on Frontex's Joint Returns Operations (JROs): Opinion on a notification for Prior Checking received from the Data Protection Officer of the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union (FRONTEX) concerning the "Collection of names and certain other relevant data of returnees for joint return operations (JRO)" (pdf)

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