W dniach 16-17 września 2010 roku w Trewirze odbędzie się konferencja poświęcona współczesnym kierunkom rozwoju dla współpracy policyjnej i kontroli granicznej w strefie Schengen.

Językiem wykładowym będzie niemiecki lub angielski. Reprezentanci poszczególnych europejskich agencji, krajowi funkcjonariusze policji i pracownicy służby celnej wezmą udział w przedmiotowej konferencji, która będzie polem do analizy rozwoju Schengen Acquis i dyskusji na temat przyszłości powyższej instytucji.

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The Academy of European Law will organise a conference on “Prospects for Police Cooperation and Border Control in the Schengen Area today”. The conference will look at the development of the Schengen Acquis and present and discuss its challenges today.

25 years ago, in 1985, five EU member states signed the Schengen Agreement removing systematic border controls between their countries. Today, the Schengen area consists of 25 European countries, the latest entrant being Switzerland.

The enlarged Schengen area has given rise to numerous new challenges for the protection of the EU's internal and external borders including:

  • the setting-up of a second generation for the Schengen Information System (SIS II) and the idea of an Agency for large-scale IT systems;
  • the establishment of common centres of police and customs cooperation to assist with cross-border surveillance, hot pursuit, joint patrols and other joint operations under the Schengen Convention;
  • the strengthening of FRONTEX operational capacities by introducing regional-based offices, Joint Support Teams, joint operations, return cooperation;
  • measures for a ‘European Integrated Border Management’ such as an entry/exit system, a European Border Patrols Network, and a European Border Surveillance System (EUROSUR);
  • new electronic technologies to ensure border control (ABC).
Speakers
Professor Monica den Boer, Academic Dean of the Police Academy of the Netherlands, Apeldoorn
Oliver Felsen, Franco-German Centre of Police and Custom Cooperation, Kehl
Monica Gariup, Research Officer, Research and Development Unit, Capacity Building Division, Frontex, Warsaw
Roland Genson, Director Police and Customs Cooperation, Schengen Direction, General Secretariat of the Council of the EU, Brussels
Reto Gruber, Federal Office of Justice, European Law and Human Rights Unit, Berne
Nikolaos Isaris, Large-scale IT-systems and Biometrics, DG Home Affairs, European Commission, Brussels
Reinhard Peters, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Berlin
Cornelia Riehle, Section for European Public and Criminal Law, ERA, Trier
Reinhard Schmid, Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior, Austrian Federal Criminal Police Office, Vienna
Ioan-Dragos Tudorache, Head of Unit, IT projects: Infrastructure and legal issues, DG Home Affairs, European Commission, Brussels
Wim van de Ven, Senior Prosecutor, Office for EU-regional Cooperation, Maastricht

Representative of Frontex, Sea Border Sector Operations Unit, Warsaw

PS/ERA