JRO to Nigeria by Italy on 19.03.2014 - Frontex

Warsaw, 30.04.2014
Reg.Nr.: 7520/30.04.2014
PUBLIC
FRONTEX EVALUATION REPORT 2014
JRO to Nigeria by
Italy on
19.03.2014
Operations Division | Joint Operations Unit
RETURN OPERATIONS SECTOR
Approved at Warsaw
23/05/2014
[signed]
Gil Arias
Deputy Executive Director
European Agency for the Management
of Operational Cooperation
at the External Borders of the Member States
of the European Union
www.frontex.europa.eu
Rondo ONZ 1, 00-124 Warsaw, Poland
Tel. +48 22 205 95 00
Fax +48 22 205 95 01
PUBLIC VERSION
1.
Introduction
At the 17th Direct Contact Points in Return Matters Meeting held on 10 December 2013 in Warsaw, the
representative of Italy expressed their readiness to organise a JRO to Nigeria in March 2014, around week
11. Frontex identified the needs and interest among other Member States (MS) to participate and, in
accordance with Article 9 of the Frontex Regulation, has provided assistance, co-ordination and cofinancing to the operation.
The cost of the charter, with route Rome-Lagos-Rome organised by Italy, was 193,800.00 Euro and
financed up to 100% by Frontex.
2.
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Main objectives
providing added value in the interest of the EU = efficient and effective return by using joint flights,
for both the connecting and the main flights
using well developed 3rd Country relations of a MS for the benefit of more MS
using the full capacity of joint return flights for national and EU-benefit
sharing best practices and respecting human dignity when carrying out forced returns for the
achievement of EU Directives
3.
Operational results
2013/ROS/48 - JRO to Nigeria, on 19 March 2014 (IT)
29
Staff on board
main charter
90
Bulgaria
1
3
Germany-Cancelled
0
0
Denmark
1
3
Spain
2
10
Finland
3
10
France
3
7
Greece
2
5
Lithuania
1
3
Norway
6
15
Sweden
2
6
Participants
Italy
Returnees
Monitor on board
main charter
1
FRONTEX
Sum
Observers
50
153
0
All (50) returnees were successfully returned without any major incident.
Forced Return Monitoring System (Art.8.6 of the Return Directive):
Italy (OMS): No monitor was present during the whole operation.
0
Sum
119
4
0
4
12
13
10
7
4
21
8
1
203

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