Strategy for integrated border management

10. STRATEGIC GOALS IN INTEGRATED BORDER MANAGEMENT
10.1. General goal
The goal of the Strategy is to define framework for a system which will enable
establishment and long-term keeping of a border open for circulation of people and
trade, but secure and close for all forms of trans-border criminal activities and all
other activities that are the threat to security and stability in the region. Integrated
border management system will be in accord with the rules, standards, and
recommendations of the European Union for external borders.
Realization of the general goal
The task of greatest priority upon adoption of the basic document of the Strategy
should be development of an action plan for its realization in practice, particularly
development and adoption of separate strategies for implementation of the Strategy
in sectors of border services, and strategies of implementation of the Strategy in
functional fields of priority such as training, telecommunications and informationtechnology
systems, infrastructure and equipment.
The Basic document of the Strategy for by itself cannot encompass all actions
necessary to be undertaken for its practical realization, so the list of activities, as part
of the realization of particular objectives, should be taken as a frame not as a final
one. Operational document of the implementation plan is yet to be developed, and it
will be all-inclusive, but it will also follow the fate of the Strategy itself as a living
document, which means that it will also be susceptible to necessary adaptations to
real circumstances.
10.2. Particular objectives
Particular objectives of the Integrated Boarder Management Strategy in the Republic
of Serbia on national level, as part of the general strategic goal, are:
Objective I – Legal and regulatory framework
In the framework of this objective it is necessary to develop a detailed regulatory
framework which would include laws, sub-law acts, and internal decrees of border
services, harmonised with models, standards, and recommendations of the EU for
external borders, and particularly the recommendations for Western Balkan. Special
activities to be undertaken are:
• Making of catalogue of valid ordinances of the Republic of Serbia.
• Making of analysis of differences between valid ordinances and catalogue of
recommendations for the application of the Schengen Accord.
• Making of harmonization of ordinances plan (structure, priorities, and
carriers).
• Making of catalogue of ordinances and its adoption with greatest priority.
• Contracting of inter-state agreements with neighbouring countries in relation
to co-operation in the field of border jobs.
• Review of the existing agreements.
• Signing of the clear procedures on co-operation between border services.
• Categorization of border crossings in co-operation with competent authorities
of the neighbouring countries.