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"The honourable Member will remember that the Council has on several occasions already expressed how it has felt following the human dramas in which a number of attempts at illegal entry into the European Union have ended.
The Hague programme, adopted by the European Council on 4 and 5 November 2004, also tackles this problem and calls for cooperation between the Member States to be stepped up. In this connection, the Council would like to refer to the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders
of the Member States of the European Union. On 26 October 2004, the Council adopted a regulation creating this agency, which will begin its activities on 1 May 2005. The agency will facilitate the application of both the existing and future Community provisions for external border management while ensuring that the Member States coordinate their actions when implementing these provisions.
In 2002, the Council also adopted an overall plan for combating illegal immigration and human trafficking in the European Union, as well as a plan for integrated management of the external borders of the Member States of the European Union. Implementation of these plans is a priority for the Council and the Member States, the latter having stepped up their operational cooperation by means of a series of joint operations and pilot projects. A fundamental role was allocated to the External Border Practitioners Common Unit, which coordinated the implementation of the operations provided for in the plans. Within the framework of this common unit, two centres were set up to coordinate the joint measures and operations to be implemented at sea and in the ports. These are the western and eastern Maritime Border Centres, situated in, respectively, Spain and Greece. These two centres have conducted operations aimed at combating illegal immigration by sea.
The Council would also like to draw the honourable Member’s attention to the programme of measures, adopted on 27 November 2003, designed to combat illegal immigration by sea in the Member States of the European Union. This programme comprises a series of measures designed to perfect coordinated and effective maritime border management as quickly as possible.
It also pointed out how important it was to strengthen international relations with third countries of origin or transit of illegal flows of immigrants. I should also like to draw your attention to the fact that the informal meeting of the JHA Council will basically be concerned with those issues.
On 2 December 2004, the Council adopted conclusions evaluating the progress made with regard to the implementation of the programme of measures to combat illegal immigration by sea in the EU Member States. Although the Council noted that progress had been made in implementing this programme, it also concluded that there was a need for further progress in terms of the operational and legislative measures.
What is more, the Council confirmed that it was necessary to strengthen cooperation with third countries by drawing upon the experience acquired by the different Member States. The Council suggested that such cooperation cover all aspects of illegal immigration, such as return and readmission, the fight against trafficking in human beings and the networks associated with such trafficking, all forms of illegal immigration, management of borders and the strengthening of capacities in the sphere of immigration control."@en1
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