The first annual report of the Frontex Consultative Forum on
Fundamental Rights provides an overview of the activities undertaken by the
Consultative Forum in 2013 in a number of areas jointly agreed with Frontex,
its Management Board and the Frontex Fundamental Rights Officer. These include
strategic planning, joint operations, risk analysis and training. The report
also contains recommendations made to Frontex and its Management Board.
In its findings, the Consultative Forum has observed notable
progress in ensuring adequate respect of fundamental rights guarantees in
various activities of the agency, specifically in joint return operations, risk
analysis and training. The report also stresses the need for the agency to
intensify its efforts to set up an effective system for monitoring fundamental
rights compliance as well as increase focus on protection of fundamental rights
in all the agency's activities.
