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EUROSUR activities
The idea of EUROSUR Programme is to establish an information sharing and cooperation
mechanism enabling Member State authorities carrying out border surveillance activities and
Frontex to collaborate at tactical, operational and strategic levels.
EUROSUR Programme will provide Member States with a framework that increases their
situational awareness and improves the reaction capability of national authorities controlling
the external borders of the EU Member States. EUROSUR Programme foresees the interlinking
and streamlining of surveillance systems and mechanisms at the Member State level, including
the setting up in each Member State of a National Coordination Centre (NCC).
In 2012 all 18 Member States with external borders will be connected to the EUROSUR Network
and the services provided through EUROSUR will gradually be developed.
In 2013 the EUROSUR Regulation should enter into force. The aim of the EUROSUR Programme
in 2013 is to prepare Frontex and the Member States for this entry into force by:
further developing the Network, and
developing and testing tools and methods for providing the European Situational Picture
(ESP) as well as the Common Pre-frontier Intelligence Picture (CPIP).
The entry into force of the EUROSUR Regulation will mean the end of the EUROSUR programme
in this form. The operations will be managed by the Operations Division, while there will be
close cooperation between the divisions to ensure further development of the system.
Core activities in the EUROSUR Programme for 2013 are:
Extensions of the EUROSUR Network to encompass all Member States and possibly some
other EU actors (i.e. DG HOME + EUROPOL + EMSA + EUSC + MAOC-N)
Hardening of the nodes of the Network to ensure reliability of the system. Part of the
hardware already deployed will be duplicated.
Enhancement of Network Security to include EU certified crypto equipment to enable the
exchange of EU restricted information.
Establishment of a Framework Contract to ensure Third Level support to the Network,
including system evolution, once the second extension of the network is completed.
The Common Surveillance Tools Project will develop and test a Frontex capability for the
combined use of satellite imagery and ship reporting systems for border surveillance, in
order to provide surveillance based information to the EUROSUR network. This is to be done
using GMES measures (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) and by working in
close conjunction to EUSC and EMSA.
The CPIP/ESP Project will further develop the Common Pre-frontier Intelligence Picture
and the European Situational Picture. The objectives of the CPIP/ESP Project are to
develop tools and procedures for providing the Common Pre-frontier Intelligence Picture
and the European Situational Picture to the EUROSUR information exchange. Initially the
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