APPENDIX 5: LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
ACPO Association of Chief Police Officers
ALO Airline Liaison Officer
BIA Border and Immigration Agency
CRATE Central Register of Available Technical
Equipment
DATV Direct Airline Transit Visa
DG JLS Directorate-General Justice Freedom and
Security of the Commission
Dublin II Council Regulation (EC) 343/2003 of
18 February 2003 establishing the criteria and mechanisms for
determining the Member State responsible for examining an asylum
application lodged in one of the Member States by a third-country
national (OJ 2003 L 50/1)
e-Borders The Home Office programme for the electronic
screening of all passengers entering and leaving the United Kingdom
EC European Community
ECJ European Court of Justice
ECRE European Council on Refugees and Exiles
EU European Union
Europol European Police Office, set up under
a Convention between Member States, likely to become an Agency
under a proposed Council Decision
Frontex European Agency for the Management of
Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member
States
Frontex Council Regulation (EC) 2007/2004 of
26 October 2004 Regulation establishing a European Agency
for the Management of Operational Cooperation at
the External Borders of the Member States of the European
Union (OJ L349 of 25 November 2004, p.1)
FYROM Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
G5 The G6 before they were joined by Poland
in March 2006
G6 The six largest Member States: Germany,
France, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain and Poland
G6 meetings The regular six-monthly meetings
of the G6 ministers
G6 ministers The ministers of the interior of
the G6
HMRC Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs
IAS Immigration Advisory Service
ICC International Coordination Centre (of
an operation)
IDA Inadequately Documented Arrival
ILPA Immigration Law Practitioners' Association
IMO International Maritime Organisation
IOM International Organization for Migration
IRIS Iris Recognition Immigration System
JHA Justice and Home Affairs
LIBE Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice
and Home Affairs of the Committee European Parliament
Meijers Standing Committee of Experts on International
Immigration, Committee Refugee and Criminal Law
NCPO National Coordinator Ports Policing
PNR Passenger Name Record
QMV Qualified Majority Voting
RABIT Rapid Border Intervention Team
RABITs Regulation (EC) 863/2007 of the European
Parliament and of the Regulation Council of 11 July 2007 establishing
a mechanism for the creation of Rapid Border Intervention
Teams and amending [the Frontex Regulation] (OJ
L199 of 31 July 2007, p.30)
RAU Risk Analysis Unit of Frontex
SAR Search and Rescue
Schengen The Schengen Agreement, the Schengen
Convention, and all the acquis instruments adopted
under them (published in OJ L 239 of 22 September
2000)
Schengen The 1985 Agreement between Belgium,
Germany, France, Agreement Luxembourg and the Netherlands
on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders
Schengen the 1990 Convention implementing the
Schengen Agreement Convention
SIS II Second generation Schengen Information
System
SOCA Serious Organised Crime Agency
TEC Treaty establishing the European Community
TEU Treaty establishing the European Union
Treaty of The Treaty between the Member States,
signed in Lisbon on 13 Lisbon December 2007, amending the
TEU and amending and re-naming the TEC
UNCLOS United Nations Convention on the Law of
the Sea
UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
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