The EU is building up a team of heavily-guarded men to help Libya stop unwanted migrants and to collect intelligence.
The operation, Eubam Libya, currently boils down to 40-or-so EU countries' experts and EU officials.
Led by a Finnish customs chief, they began to arrive in April and they are living and working at the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli - the same spot where gunmen briefly kidnapped the Libyan PM last week.