# Regulation (EU) 2019/1896 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 November 2019 on the European Border and Coast Guard and repealing Regulations (EU) No 1052/2013 and (EU) 2016/1624, Article 26: European situational picture

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. The Agency shall establish and maintain a European situational picture in order to provide the national coordination centres and the Commission with effective, accurate and timely information and analysis, covering the external borders, the pre-frontier area and unauthorised secondary movements.
2. The European situational picture shall be composed of information collected from the following sources:
(a) national coordination centres, and national situational pictures and information and reports received from immigration liaison officers to the extent required by this Article;
(b) the Agency, including the information and reports provided by its liaison officers in accordance with Articles 31 and 77;
(c) Union delegations and Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) missions and operations as provided for in point (j) of the second subparagraph of Article 68(1);
(d) other relevant Union bodies, offices and agencies and international organisations listed in Article 68(1);
(e) authorities of third countries, on the basis of bilateral or multilateral agreements and regional networks as referred to in Article 72, and working arrangements as referred to in Article 73(4);
(f) other sources.
3. The events layer of the European situational picture shall include information relating to:
(a) incidents and other events contained in the events layer of the national situational pictures;
(b) incidents and other events contained in the specific situational pictures as provided for in Article 27;
(c) incidents in the operational area of a joint operation or rapid intervention coordinated by the Agency, or in a hotspot.
4. The operational layer of the European situational picture shall contain information on the joint operations and rapid interventions coordinated by the Agency and on hotspots, and shall include the mission statements, locations, status, duration, information on the Member States and other actors involved, daily and weekly situational reports, statistical data and information packages for the media.
5. Information on own assets in the operational layer of the European situational picture may, where appropriate, be classified as RESTREINT UE/EU RESTRICTED.
6. In the European situational picture, the Agency shall take into account the impact levels that were assigned to specific incidents in national situational pictures by the national coordination centres. For any incident in the pre-frontier area, the Agency shall assign a single indicative impact level and shall inform the national coordination centres thereof.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/1896/article/26 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-1896/article-26
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