¨Frontex Situation Centre Standard operation procedure on requests for public access to Frontex documents Please find the document herewith attached. Kindly note however, that some limited parts of these documents fall under exceptions under Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1049/20011 and therefore had to be expunged with detailed justifications in the legend attached to the document. In addition, some elements had to be redacted as their disclosure would undermine the protection of legal advice as their release would result in Frontex Legal and Procurement Unit, which provided those pieces of advice, no longer providing frank, objective, and comprehensive advice to the remainder of the Agency as the sphere of trust, in which this advice, embodied in these elements, was provided, would be severely impaired. Since all Frontex entities have an interest in receiving such frank, objective and comprehensive legal advice in order to make informed decisions, the release of these elements has thus to be refused. As no overriding public interest that is objective and general in nature and not indistinguishable from individual or private interests for the release of these elements is ascertainable in the present case, based on Article 4(2) second indent of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, these elements cannot be released. Kindly be reminded that the copyright of the document/s rests with Frontex and making this/these work/s, available to third parties in this or another form without prior authorisation of Frontex is prohibited. Please also note that Frontex does not assume liability stemming from the use of the document/s. 1 Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents (OJ L 145, 31.5.2001, p. 43). Frontex - European Border and Coast Guard Agency www.frontex.europa.eu | Pl. Europejski 6, 00-844 Warsaw, Poland | Tel. +48 22 205 95 00 | Fax +48 22 205 95 01

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