APPENDIX 4: LIST OF OPERATIONS
| Description of the operation
| States involved
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| Agelaus (February 2006): an operation focusing on minors smuggled or trafficked to the EU by air, in particular those unaccompanied or travelling with other than close relatives, to develop procedures for identification, reception, shelter and protection of victims.
| AT, BE, CZ, DE, EE, ES, FI, FR, HU, IT, LV, NL, PL, PT, SE, SK, SL, UK, and Europol
|
| Agios (July-September 2006): an operation concentrating on intensifying passport controls in the Mediterranean Spanish Ports to identify falsified documents. 27 airports were involved.
| DE, ES, FR, IT, NL, PT
|
| Amazon: a three stage air operation taking place in November 2006, February 2007 and November 2007-January 2008, aimed at preventing illegal immigration by persons arriving at EU airports from central and South America. In addition, AT, BG, HU and RO participated in the third stage.
| DE, ES, FR, IT, NL, PT, UK
|
| Ariadne (April-May 2007): a land operation targeting illegal migrants from Ukraine and Belarus into Poland. The operation was extended to the Polish-German border to target the use of forged documents by facilitators.
| AT, CZ, DE, EE, ES, HU, IT, LV, LT, PL, PT
|
| Drive In (August-September 2007): a land operation targeting illegal migration across the West Balkans to Slovenia.
| AT, BG, DE, IT, LV, RO, SL
|
| Extended Family: the operation, in October and November 2007, focused on illegal immigration and human trafficking from Nigeria through airports including Madrid, Amsterdam and Malpensa.
| ES, FI, IT, HU, NL, UK
|
| FIFA 2006: an operation to cooperate with Germany in combating illegal immigration through EU airports, in preparation for the FIFA World Cup 2006.
| AT, CZ, DE, EL, ES, FR, HU, IT, PL, SI, SK, UK
|
| Gordius (April 2007): an operation to analyse routes and false travel documents used mainly by Ukrainian and Moldavian nationals for entry into Eastern European States.
| AT, BG, CZ, DE, ES, FI, FR, HU, LV, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, UK
|
| Hera This succession of major operations was aimed at assisting Spain in dealing with illegal migration to the Canary Islands by carrying out extensive border controls, identifying immigrants and establishing patrols on the open sea near Senegal and Mauretania to reduce the number of vessels from African countries in Mauritanian, Senegalese and Cape Verde territorial waters. Hera I and II took place between July and December 2006, and Hera III, which had a budget of €2.75m, from February to April 2007. They were followed by Hera 2007, with a budget of €5.4m, itself a two-stage operation from April to June and July to November 2007. The UK took part in Hera I and in the second stage of Hera 2007.
| DE, ES, FI, FR, IT, NL, PT, UK and Norway took part in Hera I and II.
DE, ES, FR, LU, IT, NL, PT, SE and UK took part in the second stage of Hera 2007.
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| Herakles (August and October 2007): a two-stage land operation on the Hungary/Serbia border.
| AT, BG, DE, HU, IT, LV, PO, PT, RO, UK
|
| Hermes (September 2007): an operation targeting illegal migration across the Mediterranean from North Africa to Italy and Spain.
| DE, ES, FR, EL, IT, PT, RO, UK
|
| Hydra (April-May 2007): an operation aimed at the detection of illegal Chinese migrants arriving at EU airports.
| AT, BG, CZ, DE, ES, FI, FR, HU, IT, NL, PL, SL, RO, UK
|
| Indalo 2007 (November 2007): a maritime operation targeting illegal migration through the Western Mediterranean, from the North African coast to Southern Spain.
| DE, ES, FR, IT, MT, PT, RO
|
| Kras (September 2007): a land operation targeting illegal migration from Croatia to Slovenia.
| AT, BG, DE, IT, RO, SL, UK
|
| Long Stop (November-December 2007): an operation to detect Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan citizens arriving at EU airports in breach of immigration controls.
| AT, CZ, DE, EE, EL, FI, FR, IT, NE, PL, PT, SL, UK
|
| Minerva (August-September 2007): a maritime operation targeting illegal migration through the Western Mediterranean, from the North African coast to Southern Spain.
| AT, BE, ES, DE, FR, IT, NL, PL, PT, RO, UK
|
| Nautilus 2006: a maritime operation in October 2006 in the Southern Mediterranean aimed at combating illegal immigration to Malta and Lampedusa.
| DE, EL, FR, IT, MT |
| Nautilus 2007: a further major two-stage maritime operation (June-July 2007 and September-October 2007) with a budget of €5.1m, targeting illegal migration from Libya across the central Mediterranean to Malta and Lampedusa.
| DE, EL, FR, IT, MT and (for Stage II) PT, RO, UK
|
| Niris: an operation to combat illegal migration flows through Baltic sea ports, especially flows organised by criminal networks from India and China.
| States with borders on the Baltic Sea, including Norway
|
| Poseidon 2006: a joint land and sea operation in June-July 2006 in the Greek islands and on the Greek land border with Albania and Turkey.
| AT, DE, EL, FR, IT, MT, PL, UK
|
| Poseidon 2007: a major three-stage joint land and sea operation with a budget of €2.25m, targeting illegal immigration to Greece and SE Europe from Albania, FYROM and Turkey. The three stages ran from May to October 2007.
| AT, BG, CY, DE, FR, EL, IT, MT, NL, PT, RO, UK, Europol
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| Torino 2006: border checks at 24 airports of persons travelling to the Winter Olympic Games in Turin in February 2006.
| 15 Member States including UK
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| Ursus I and II: two operations at the Eastern EU external land borders, the first focusing on the Slovakian border with Ukraine, the second on the Polish border with Ukraine.
| AT, BG, DE, EE, FI, HU, LT, LV, PL, RO, SK and Ukraine
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| Zeus (October 2007): joint air and sea operations to identify irregular migrants posing as seamen.
| BE, CY, DE, ES, FI, FR, IT, LV, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SE, UK
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