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EU: FRONTEX: FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS: Latest Council position on amending the Frontex Regulation

01 May 2011

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EU: FRONTEX: FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS: Latest Council position on amending the Frontex Regulation: Proposal for a Regulation amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2007/2004 establishing a European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union (FRONTEX) (EU doc no: 9342-11, pdf). Fundamental rights: The Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE) of the European Parliament propsed that an Advisory Board on Fundamental Rights should be created "positioned above the Agency" (emphasis added). At the meeting of the Council's Working Party on Frontiers (comprising represenatives of Member State delegations): "no delegation could accept the proposal". Instead the Council is proposing: 1) that Frontex should "further develop" its Fundamental Rights Strategy (drawn up and agreed by Frontex); 2) a Consultative Forum should be set up whose composition would be decided by Frontex; and 3) A Fundamental Rights Officer, through open competition, appointed by Frontex.

Tony Bunyan, Statewatch Director, comments:

"The Council's proposals on ensuring fundamental rights are respected in all Frontex activities are utterly toothless and provide a fig-leaf of accountability. Frontex, like now, would remain a law unto itself."

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