Article 7 Frontex risk analyses

By 31 August each year, Frontex shall submit a risk analysis to the Commission and to the Member States in accordance with its mandate. Such risk analysis shall take into account, inter alia, illegal immigration and significant changes in the operational environment at the external borders, and shall include recommendations on the priorities for evaluations in the following year. The recommendations shall refer to specific sections of the external borders and to specific border crossing-points to be evaluated in the following year under the multiannual evaluation programme. The Commission shall transmit that risk analysis without delay to the European Parliament and to the Council.

By 31 August each year, Frontex shall submit to the Commission a separate risk analysis that is distinct from that referred to in paragraph 1, which shall include recommendations on the priorities for evaluations to be implemented in the form of unannounced on-site visits in the following year, irrespective of the order of Member States to be evaluated each year, as established in the multiannual evaluation programme in accordance with Article 5(2). Those recommendations may concern any region or specific area and shall contain a list of at least ten specific sections of the external borders and at least ten specific border crossing-points. The Commission may at any time request Frontex to submit to it a risk analysis making recommendations for evaluations to be implemented in the form of unannounced on-site visits.

The risk analyses, referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2, to be provided by Frontex shall be submitted for the first time to the Commission not later than 27 February 2014.