The European Commission has presented a strategy to allow Customs to tackle more optimally the risks associated with the goods marketed in different international supply chains.
EU Customs Action Plan to combat IPR infringements for the years 2013-2017
The European Commission and the Member States are trying to ensure compliance with the intellectual property rights (IPR) at the external borders, through a resolution passed for the years 2013-2017.
Melilla performed preliminary studies of the ‘Smart borders’ program (in Spanish)
The General Directorate of Police intends to install in Melilla “Smart borders” program, which interconectaría all the border with Morocco, practiced facial and fingerprint biometrics and integrated databases.
The Moroccan towns of Bizourane and Tagmoute will achieve energy self-sufficiency with the collaboration of the Canary Islands and the EU (in Spanish)
Bizourane and Tagmoute, two locations in Morocco, will become self-sufficient energy-thanks to the second call for the operational program of cooperation cross-border Espana-fronteras foreign (POCTEFEX).
MEPs say that “Eurosur” surveillance system must help protect the life of immigrants
The European Parliament’s civil liberties Commission has stated that surveillance of EU borders “Eurosur” system, already approved, should help protect the lives of the immigrants.
Committee of the European Parliament gives the green light to a system of surveillance of borders (in Spanish)
To detect the entrance of pateras more effectively the Committee on Civil Liberties, justice and Home Affairs of the European Parliament has approved the creation of the European border surveillance system (EUROSUR).