REFORMING FRONTEX | A HUMAN RIGHTS - BASED REVIEW
For the past couple of years, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) has been confronted with structural shortcomings in terms of fundamental rights, accountability, management and oversight, leading to violations at the external borders and a number of institutional inquiries into the Agency. Most notably, the European Parliament, the EU Ombudsman, the European Anti-Fraud Agency (OLAF) and the Working Group on Fundamental Rights and Legal Operational Aspects of Operations have scrutinized the Agency and issued recommendations.
This study builds on these institutional reports, and advances eight clusters of recommendations for the upcoming reform of the EBCG Regulation, directed at closing the structural gaps that have allowed Frontex to operate with insufficient accountability, inadequate fundamental rights safeguards, and limited judicial oversight since its inception.
