Article 106(4)(d) of the European Border and Coast Guard Regulation (hereinafter: ‘Regulation (EU) 2019/1896’ or ‘the Regulation’) stipulates that each year the Executive Director shall prepare the consolidated annual activity report on the Agency’s activities and submit it to the Management Board. Article 100(2)(j) of the Regulation (EU) 2019/1896 states that the Management Board shall adopt an annual activity report of Frontex for the previous year and forward it, by 1 July at the latest, to the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union, the European Commission and the European Court of Auditors. This annual report follows the instructions received from the European Commission in the form of guidelines and contains those new elements required. To guide the readers and recipients of the information the report has been divided into five main parts which form the annual activity report 2021, supplemented by 11 annexes. The document begins with a reflection on the conditions and challenges at the political and policy level, followed by an executive summary complemented with the key achievements of the Agency during 2021. At the end the key conclusions are presented in the form of a synthetised list of attainments.
Authors
- Catalogue number
- TT-AP-23-001-EN-N
- Citation
- Frontex, Consolidated Annual Activity Report 2021 , Publications Office of the European Union, 2024, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2819/989092
- DOI
- https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2819/989092
- ISBN
- 978-92-9467-551-4
- ISSN
- 2599-9419
- Pages
- 174
- Published in
- Belgium
- Themes
- Foreign and security policy — Defence
Table of Contents
- Glossary 3
- Introduction 9
- Mission, vision, values and objectives 10
- Tasks 11
- Conditions and challenges, political and policy context 12
- Executive summary 16
- Key achievements 18
- Key conclusions 44
- Part I – Achievements of the year () 46
- 1.1. Strategic Objective 1 46
- 1.2. Strategic Objective 2 55
- 1.3. Strategic Objective 3 71
- 1.4. Horizontal Objective 1 86
- 1.5. Horizontal Objective 2 88
- 1.6. Horizontal Objective 3 99
- Part II – Management 117
- 2.1. Management Board 117
- 2.2. Major developments 119
- 2.3. Budgetary and financial management 121
- 2.4. Delegations and sub-delegations 130
- 2.5. Human resources management 131
- 2.7. Assessment of audit results during the reporting year 139
- 2.8. a. Follow-up of recommendations and action plans for audits 142
- 2.8. b. Follow-up of recommendations issued following investigations by OLAF 149
- 2.8. c. Follow-up of observations from the discharge authority The discharge authority’s (European Parliament) observations and measures taken by Frontex 149
- 2.9. Legality and regularity of transactions 150
- 2.10. Environment management 156
- 2.11. Assessment by management 159
- Part III – Assessment of effectiveness of internal control systems 161
- 3.1. Effectiveness of the internal control system 162
- 3.2. Conclusions of assessment of internal control systems 170
- 3.3. Statement of the Head of Inspection and Control Office 171
- Part IV – Management assurance 172
- 4.1. Review of the elements supporting assurance 172
- 4.2. Reservations 172
- Part V – Declaration of assurance 173
