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Guard expressed its readiness to participate in the project implementation as the lead institution
for implementation of module 2 "Strengthening of Operational Techniques and Procedures".
In 2010, the State Border Guard participated and continues to participate in joint
operations of FRONTEX Agency:
• "POSEIDON 2010". Purpose of the operation: to ensure the surveillance of the sea and
land borders by using technical equipment and experts of Member States, with the objective to
reduce the threat of illegal immigration on external sea and land borders of Greece-Turkey.
Currently 2 mobile surveillance sets, 2 motorboats and one helicopter with their crew
participates and will participate in the future in the said joint activity of FRONTEX Agency
from the State Border Guard.
• "ATTICA 2010". Purpose: to provide support to institutions of Greece in the
identification and repatriation of illegal immigrant who have arrived through the sea and land
borders.
• "HERMES 2010". Purpose: to provide sea border surveillance in order to reduce the
threat of illegal immigration from the borders of Italy-Tunisia and Italy-Algeria.
• "FOCAL POINTS 2010 Air". Purpose: to improve the coordination of border
management, ensure exchange of information in real time, strengthen the border surveillance
among border-crossing points. Representatives of the State Border Guard provided support in
airports of Greece, Sweden, the Netherlands, Finland, Lithuanian, Spain, Belgium and the
Czech Republic.
• "Hubble 2010". Purpose: combating of illegal immigration on the air borders of the
European Union without emphasising any specific group of third-country nationals.
Representatives of the State Border Guard provided support at airport of Germany.
• "Hammer 2010". Purpose: to create a flexible system which would be able to respond,
within maximum short period of time, to potential threat (illegal immigration, human
smuggling and other) on the external borders of the European Union. Representatives of the
State Border Guard provided support in airports of Poland and Spain.
• "UNITY 2010". During the operation in Poland and Lithuania, with the support of
officials of the State Border Guard, activities were carried out for combating illegal acts and
detection of cross-border criminal offences.
• "FOCAL POINT 2010 Land". Purpose: to improve the coordination of border
management, ensure exchange of information in real time, use focus points to facilitate the
placement of RABIT and FJST participants, strengthen border surveillance among bordercrossing
points. Representatives of the State Border Guard provided support at land border
control points of Estonia, Lithuania, Hungary, Finland, Poland, Bulgaria and Slovakia.
• "NEPTUNE 2010". Purpose: to strengthen the border control procedures on the
external borders of Slovenia and Hungary, by facilitating detection of illegal immigrants,
detection of persons hiding in vehicles, as well as detection of guest workers and persons
who have exceeded the period of residence and are employed illegally in a Member State of
the European Union.
• "JUPITER 2010". Purpose: combating of illegal immigration from or via Ukraine and
Moldova, by using the "green" border and border control points.
The State Border Guard plans to continue its active participation in activities of
FRONTEX on the external borders of the European Union.
III(f) intensify cooperation with the countries of origin and of transit in order to strengthen
border control
Please list any new or planned agreements, and other forms of bilateral and multilateral
cooperation with third countries, specifying which countries, specifically in order to
strengthen the control of external borders and to combat illegal immigration. This could