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PREVENTION OF AND FIGHT AGAINST CRIME PROGRAMME



ACTION GRANTS 2011

GENERAL CALL FOR PROPOSALS



AWARDED APPLICATIONS








Please note that the project Summary was provided by the Applicant in the
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SUMMARY DATA

|Registration number of the |HOME/2011/ISEC/AG/4000002465 |
|Application: | |
|Name of the applicant |FEDERAL POLICE |
|organisation: | |
|Project title: |Strengthening of PCCC Cooperation in the|
| |European Union |
|Member State where the applicant |DE |
|organisation is registered: | |
|Duration of the project (months): |36 |
|Co beneficiaries of the grant: |Austrian Federal Police AT; |
| |Polish Border Police PL; |
| |Customs Criminal Office DE; |
| |Bavarian State Police DE; |
| |Brandenburg State Police DE; |
| |State Office of Criminal Investigation |
| |of Saxonia DE; State Office of Criminal |
| |Investigation of Baden |
| |Wuerttemberg DE; |
| |Royal Netherlands Marechaussee NL; |
| |Police of the Czech RepublikCZ; |
| |Belgian Police BE; |
| |Bulgarian Border Police BG |
|Associate partners/not |CEPOL (UK) |
|co-beneficiaries of the grant: |EUROPOL (NL) |
|Characteristics of the Project : |Transnational |
|Summary (REF APPLICATION FORM: 2.1.9): |
|The objective of the 36 month project is to strengthen the PCCC activities|
|and cooperation. In particular the wide ranging possible assignments of a |
|PCCC should be identified; best practises for each should be described. |
|The knowledge about the European and national legal acts and their |
|possibilities to extend the law enforcement information exchange on |
|operative level via PCCCs should be extended in all 38 PCCCs of the EU and|
|their superior organizations. Participants of the project should be the |
|PCCCs staff, national central authorities and decision makers. The |
|cooperation between the 38 PCCCs and EUROPOL and |
|CEPOL should be further institutionalised by this project, hence as well |
|guarantying the lasting impact of that projects training, teaching and |
|cooperation strengthening activities and results. |
|Project activities: |
|- Develop a web based e-learning module for PCCC staff with CEPOL. |
|- Carry out a one day seminar together with CEPOL and high level |
|university legal experts for national central authorities and PCCCs |
|concerning EU legal acts on data exchange via PCCCs. |
|- Carry out a seminar together with EUROPOL regarding the possibilities to|
|offer support for the PCCC cooperation via EUROPOL e-platform. |
|- Carry out seminars and trainings for PCCCs on the subjects: PCCC |
|cooperation, legal bases for the Europe-wide exchange of data and |
|information, PCCC Best Practices, team building, further training in |
|English language for an uniform PCCC exchange of information (individual |
|PCCC employees are to acquire appropriate knowledge of English to |
|facilitate an exchange between PCCCs). |
|- Short term personnel exchange programmes (guest officer) at all levels |
|between the PCCCs to enable an exchange of working experiences and best |
|practices. |
|- Carry out regional PCCC conferences, to clear up questions with PCCC |
|relevance to the cooperation or based on the respective stake - holder |
|authorities and to exchange working experiences and best practices. |
|- Carry out a PCCC workshop to update the PCCC guidelines in order to |
|provide the Council presidency and the EU Commission |
|with appropriate recommendations and considerations for taking further |
|action and to initiate appropriate |
|negotiations at the EU level. |
|- Set up a forum of PCCC coordinators in order to discuss PCCC matters, to|
|encourage a continual exchange and further training and to be available as|
|a network to the Commission, the Council and Europol (the PCCC forum would|
|not replace the annual conference carried out by the Presidency). For this|
|a chairperson (coordinator of one PCCC) could be elected for three years |
|at a time and a (virtual) secretariat should be set up consisting of three|
|co-workers (police, border guard, and customs). The |
|PCCC forum would meet once a year to discuss subjects and exchange ideas. |
|The informal exchange of members of the PCCC forum or co-workers from the |
|PCCC's would be conducted via e-platform provided by Europol for this |
|purpose. Moreover, all the PCCCs would present themselves in a uniform |
|manner on a website provided by EUROPOL in the framework of the Europol e |
|platform for PCCCs. The forum could set up temporary working groups as the|
|need arises. Furthermore, it could initiate, coordinate or organise |
|trainings, seminars or team-building measures. The secretariat co-workers |
|could support the chair with |
|answering questions, preparing the annual meeting or the process of |
|opinion making on individual circumstances in the PCCCs. |
|The members of the secretariat would carry out these tasks as simultaneous|
|functions from their agencies. They would communicate via telephone and |
|internet and meet every quarter or as the need arises. The PCCC forum |
|should be evaluated after two years. |
|- Compilation of a standard form for all interested PCCCs so that in cases|
|where the request cannot be made in good time by the central bodies |
|responsible in each Schengen Contracting Party for international police |
|co-operation as per Art. 39 (3) s. 2 Schengen Implementing Convention the |
|appropriate requests for the respective requesting and requested police |
|authorities can be forwarded and returned by way of administrative |
|assistance (PCCC serve here as verification, navigation and translation |
|offices). The form could be tested by some PCCCs in a pilot project. This |
|way, the improved legal possibilities of the framework Council decision |
|2006/960/JI (Swedish initiative) can be accommodated, that does not |
|exclude direct contact between the requesting and requested authorities in|
|urgent cases. |
|- Development of a specimen case processing system of one PCCC that can be|
|adopted by PCCCs. Optionally, a specimen interface for SIENA can be |
|programmed in order to be able to forward secure data between the sending |
|authorities of one state or rather to the latter's central office, and/or |
|from sending authorities of one state to sending authorities of another |
|state inside one PCCC. Translation of the case processing system into the |
|language of interested PCCCs. |
|Total eligible costs of the |requested E 702.740 |
|project (EUR) | |
|Max. grant awarded (EUR) |requested E 632.240 |
|Max. % of EU co-financing |requested 85,50% |

CONCLUSION: RECOMMENDED FOR AWARD

TOTAL SCORE: 70 points

Final grant awarded: E 615.335

|REASONS: |
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|1. Overall conclusion: |
|The project proposal addresses a topical issue of improvement of law |
|enforcement cooperation especially as regards secure information exchange |
|by involvement of Police and customs cooperation centres. The applicant has|
|demonstrated clear vision of the objective and of the particular actions to|
|reach the set results. The proposal is elaborated in high quality and |
|appropriately reflects the intentions of the applicant. The EU perspective |
|of the impact of the project is high. |
|The effect of the project can contribute to more intensive and more |
|structured law enforcement cooperation especially though PCCCs. The project|
|is intended to be as a c