On 25 - 26 November 2021, ICMPD and the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) organised the final events of the Forced Return Monitoring III project (FReM III)` online. Since December 2018, ICMPD and Frontex were implementing the FReM III project jointly with the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights and 22 partner countries. The objective was to increase the operational and procedural effectiveness of the Frontex pool of forced-return monitors (Pool) and to support the national forced-return monitoring systems in Member States.
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Countries
Austria / Belgium / Bulgaria / Croatia / Cyprus / Czechia / Finland / Germany / Greece / Hungary / Italy / Latvia / Luxembourg / Malta / Netherlands / Norway / Poland / Portugal / Romania / Slovakia / Sweden / Switzerland
Status
Completed
Duration
December 2018
to
December 2021
Donors
EU
Partners
European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
Implementing Agency
ICMPD
Funding
2 million EUR
Summary
The FReM III project together with the previous FReM I and II projects aimed to contribute to a functioning EU Return System in line with the EU Return Directive (2008/115/EC), guaranteeing and protecting the fundamental rights of returnees through independent and transparent forced-return monitoring based on a common European framework, standards, good practices and harmonised procedures. The project supported the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) to develop the pool of forced-return monitors in line with European Border and Coast Guard (EBCG) Regulation (2019/1896). Furthermore, the project supported European Union (EU) Member States (MSs) with targeted needs-based national activities, enhancing their monitoring capacity, and increasing the implementation of the EU Return Directive.
Barbara Cuzuioc-Weiss
Senior Project Manager
Natia Mechitishvili
Associate Project Officer