|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| back Installation | |||||||||||
| Governing Europe: Agencies Installation, Wallpaper 2007 L'europe en devenir, Centre Culturel Suisse Paris in Zusammenarbeit mit Labor k3000 / TRANSIT MIGRATION Since the mid 1990ies a number of specialised and decentralised EU agencies have been established to support the EU Member States and their citizens. The objectives of the individual agencies are many and varied. Each agency fulfils an individual function defined at the time of its creation. Agencies introduce a degree of decentralisation and dispersal to the Community's activities. Tthey give a higher profile to the tasks that are assigned to them by identifying them with the agencies themselves. Some answer the need to develop scientific or technical know-how in certain well-defined fields, others have the role to integrate different interest groups and thus to facilitate the dialogue at a European (between the social partners, for example) or international level. Agencies have become important and representative tools in the context of new methods of governing Europe. A recently installed and controversaly discussed exemple is FRONTEX European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Border of the Member States of the European Union. Frontex (from French: Frontières extérieures) headquartered in Warsaw, Poland, is the external border security agency of the European Union. It is responsible for co-ordinating the activities of the national border guards in ensuring the security of the EU's borders with non-member states. Frontex was established by Council Regulation (EC) 2007/2004. The agency started to be operational on October 3, 2005 and was the first EU agency to be based in one of the members who joined in 2004. Special European forces of rapidly deployable border guards were created by EU interior ministers in April 2007 to assist in border control, particularly on Europe's southern coastlines. Frontex's European Patrols Network began work in the Canary Islands in May 2007. Frontex' "mission" is to help EU Member States implement EU rules on external border controls and to coordinate operational cooperation between Member States in the field of external border management. It is up to each member state to control its own borders, but the Agency will help ensure that they all do so with the same standard of efficiency. The Agency is managed by its Executive Director, Ilkka Laitinen. The agency initially struggled to recruit staff due to its location in Warsaw, which offered lower pay than some other cities, and the unclear agency mandate. At its disposal, the agency has 20 aeroplanes, almost 30 helicopters and over 100 vessels. Link: > www.frontex.europa.eu Related project: > MigMap - Governing Migration |
|
