Guidelines for Integrated Border Management in the European Commission Exrernal Cooperation

This document is an extraction of the “Guidelines for Integrated Border Management in European Commission External Cooperation” published in 2010. The Guidelines are on the one hand intended for staff in EU Delegations and EC Headquarters, as well as for the EC's partners and other donor agencies working and supporting EC projects in the field of Integrated Border Management (IBM), while, on the other hand, serve as an excellent tool for practitioners from the national border agencies. The latest version of the above-referred Guidelines has been prepared by the EuropeAid Cooperation Office with the support of the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD). Published with the financial support of the European Union in the framework of the project “Eastern Partnership cooperation in the fight against irregular migration- Supporting the implementation of the Prague Process Action Plan” (EaP-SIPPAP). The action seeks to contribute to strategic and operational cooperation in the EaP region in the area of cross-border crimes prevention with a special focus on irregular migration. The main beneficiaries of the project are National Security Service of Armenia, State Border Service of Azerbaijan, State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus, Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, Border Police Department of the Republic of Moldova, State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. Implementing partners are Hungarian Ministry of Interior (in lead), International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), State Border Guard of Latvia, Border Guard of the Republic of Poland, Schengen Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Romania and Bureau of Border and Aliens Police of the Presidium of the Police Force of Slovakia.