Reporting events in EUROSUR
1. Each national coordination centre shall ensure that the national authorities of Member States responsible for border management, including coast guards to the extent that they carry out border control tasks, report in the event layer of relevant situational pictures all events detected while conducting border control activities, performing situational awareness and risk analysis as well as events related to unauthorised secondary movements, where available.
2. When carrying out border control tasks, the Agency and, where relevant, the international coordination centres shall be subject to the obligation referred to in paragraph 1.
3. Events in EUROSUR shall be reported as indicators or as single event reports or both.
Indicators on events at external borders
1. The national coordination centres and, when relevant and as provided for in the operational plans, the international coordination centres, shall report indicators on events at external borders to the Agency as set out in Annex 1 and provided at the times specified in that annex.
2. The data corresponding to the indicators may be derived from information and statistics available to national authorities including through searches of relevant Union databases and large-scale information systems, in accordance with the legal framework applicable to those databases and systems.
3. Indicators relating to illicit cross-border movement of goods and associated illicit trafficking shall be obtained in cooperation with competent national authorities taking due account of other reporting obligations or restrictions and the role of the Commission.
4. In addition to the reporting obligation referred to under paragraph 1, an originator of a report may send a specific report:
(a)
to alert on an abnormal change of the values observed;
(b)
to inform on a specific modus operandi or pattern which has been detected;
(c)
in the case of situations referred to in point (b), the report may be linked to a specific risk analysis.
5. Where the Agency obtains any of the indicators referred to in paragraph 1 by its own surveillance assets or through cooperation of the Agency with Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and international organisation or cooperation of the Agency with third countries, it shall report the indicators in the European Situational Picture and shall inform the national coordination centres thereof. In this case and for these indicators, the reporting obligation of Article 7(1) shall not apply.
Single events reports
1. The national coordination centres and, when relevant and as provided for in the operational plans, the international coordination centres, shall report the single events to the Agency.
2. Single events shall be reported in EUROSUR wherever:
(a)
a timely reaction is needed for to the single event;
(b)
the specific event has an impact on external borders which is high or very high; or
(c)
the event is listed in Annex 2.
3. Unless specified otherwise in Annex 2, the originator of the report shall send the first report on the event no later than 24 hours after relevant competent authority became aware of an event has occurred or is likely to occur.
4. The originator of the report shall submit additional reports as appropriate for the purpose of complementing or updating a single event report. They shall be linked to the initial single event report and to the event reported in the situational picture.
5. Reports prepared under this Article shall contain a description of the response of the authorities to the events reported, including any action taken or planned to be taken.
6. Without prejudice to the first operational response, the owner of the report and the originator of the report may request further information and risk analysis as provided for in Article 14, in order to:
(a)
complete the information corresponding to the event;
(b)
increase the confidence level referred to in Article 16;
(c)
update the impact level attributed;
(d)
update the situation related to the event.
7. On the basis of the reports received, the owner of the situational picture may close the event where it is considered that:
(a)
the suspected event did not take place;
(b)
the estimated impact of the event does not justify the reporting;
(c)
the situation described in the event has ended.
In case an event is closed, the event and the various reports linked to it shall be stored and shall remain accessible in the situational picture for risk analysis purposes.
8. Where the Agency obtains sufficient information on single events by its own surveillance assets or through cooperation of the Agency with Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and international organisation or cooperation of the Agency with third countries, it shall report this information in the European Situational Picture and shall inform the national coordination centres thereof. In this case, the reporting obligation of paragraph 1 shall not apply.
9. The Agency shall include or update these events as appropriate in the European situational picture.
Source: EUR-Lex (Publications Office of the EU), © European Union, reuse permitted under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.
