Chapter I, Section 2, Article 8 · EUROSUR

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Article 8Indicators 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.

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a sublayer
means a layer of information underneath the event layer, the operational layer or the risk analysis layer of a situational picture.
event
means a situation, which is likely to have an impact on the external borders either as regards migration, cross-border crime, or the protection and saving of the lives of migrants, including border incidents, or that may affect the functioning of EUROSUR, including any of its technical components;
external flight
means any flight of a manned or unmanned aircraft and its passengers and/or cargo to or from the territories of the Member States, which is not an internal flight as defined in point 3 of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2016/399 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
facilitation
means facilitation of unauthorised entry, transit and residence as defined in Council Directive 2002/90/EC;
indicator
means a measurement or value that refers to events or to tasks describing the situation at external borders which contributes to situational awareness and risk analysis or supports reaction capabilities;
International Coordination Centre
means the coordination structure established for the coordination of a joint operation or a rapid border intervention at the external borders;
managing a situational picture
means establishing and maintaining the situational picture and processing all the information that it contains;
Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre
means a unit responsible for promoting efficient organisation of search and rescue services and for coordinating the conduct of search and rescue operations within a search and rescue region as referred to in the International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue;
operational status
means the ability of an asset, unit, system or centre to perform its operational function(s) characterised as ‘fully operational’, ‘limited operational functions’, or ‘not available’;
owner
means the entity, agency or body managing the situational picture and the corresponding reports;
processing
means any action performed on the data and metadata and information contained in a report, whether those actions are automated or not, including collecting, recording, organising, structuring, storing, modifying, consulting, using, transmitting, publishing, combining, erasing, downgrading and destroying this data and metadata;
refusal of entry
means a refusal of entry issued to a third-country national at external borders, in accordance with Article 14 of Regulation (EU) 2016/399, for not fulfilling all the entry conditions laid down in Article 6(1) while not belonging to the categories of persons referred to in Article 6(5) of that Regulation, and to whom a standard refusal form has been issued in accordance with Annex V of the Schengen Borders Code;
security accreditation
means the formal authorisation and approval granted to a system or network of EUROSUR by the relevant Security Accreditation Authority (SAA) to process EUROSUR data in its operational environment, following the formal validation of a Security Plan and its correct implementation;
the technical components
means the systems and networks used for the purpose of EUROSUR, including the infrastructure, organisation, personnel and information resources needed to support it;
trafficking in human beings
means an offence referred to in Article 2 of Directive 2011/36/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council;
watchlist
means a list of suspicious entities, assets, behaviours or profiles established on the basis of risk analysis, with a view to orient the detection and risk analysis capabilities of the European Border and Coast Guard and trigger appropriate reaction capabilities;