The agency launched Joint Operation Serbia Land at the border between Serbia and Bulgaria, and aimed to increase its technical and operational assistance through coordinating activities to tackle illegal immigration and cross-border crime, and enhancing cooperation on law enforcement activities. A new Frontex liaison officer took up their post in Tirana in early A Frontex spokesperson confirmed that these related particularly to:. Working arrangements between the agency and Albania and Georgia were renewed, and an operational plan for was concluded with Moldova, which signed a status agreement on Frontex activities on its territory in Under this project, Frontex organised 20 trainings and capacity building projects for border guards on:.
On this last point, the European Ombudsman recently concluded that Frontex did not provide sufficient fundamental rights training to its own fundamental rights monitors. Two technical assistance projects will be funded by the European Commission from to , following up on phase two of the protection sensitive migration management project, to cover a new project on border security and support the implementation of status agreements.
Frontex involved non-EU partners in its study 'The Technology Foresight on Biometrics for the Future of Travel', ran "innovation cells" on surveillance and an international conference on biometrics for borders.
North Macedonia and Montenegro were supported to register and process mixed migration flows through a communication infrastructure that can be interconnected and interoperable with Eurodac, though the report emphasises that this connection will not be made until the states have acceded to the EU.
Furthermore, a Frontex spokesperson has offered more details on Joint Operation Montenegro Sea, which the report refers to as facilitating a platform for "implementation of other Frontex projects, services and products". The press office confirms:. The app is used by analysts from Frontex and Member States to report all types of events happening at the EU external borders where the agency has operational activities.
