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The report discusses Frontex’s plans to update the Serious Incident Reports (SIR) mechanism, full details of which it did not share with the working group despite a request for the information.
As part of these updates Frontex intends to classify all SIRs as RESTRIENT UE/EU RESTRICTED (the lowest level of EU Classified Information, EUCI), and all SIRs would be handled by the Frontex Situation Centre.
The working group finds this proposal inappropriate and, in fact, contrary to Frontex s founding legislation: Serious Incidents regarding alleged violation of Fundamental Rights should not be reported to Frontex Situation Centre but should be directly reported to the Fundamental Rights Officer, for follow-up in accordance with his or her competences, as set out in Article 109 (2) (b) of the EBCG Regulation
The head of Europe s border and coastguard agency has assured he is cooperating with internal investigators after an early report into pushback allegations said it was very concerned that information on three incidents was still missing.
Fabrice Leggeri, the executive director of Frontex, said on Thursday he was closely cooperating and promised to provide all additional elements needed to finalise the report .
He added it was reassuring that none of the accusations investigated so far had been proven, nor had there been any established Frontex involvement in pushbacks. I am pleased that so far the Working Group did not find evidence of any Frontex involvement in alleged pushbacks, he wrote on Twitter. It is reassuring that no violations of fundamental rights were substantiated in the cases it was able to close.