Rapid response team for border security purposes

The Rapid Response Team Border (short RABIT of English Rapid Border Intervention Team ) was a unit of the European Union , which should support the national asylum, immigration and border control authorities of the Member States. Since 2011, RABITs have been part of European Border and Coast Guard Teams (EBGTs from English European Border Guard Teams ).

The proposal to set up such units came from the European Commission in 2006 in view of the massive problems encountered in dealing with the flow of refugees from North Africa crossing the Mediterranean Sea into southern Europe, with thousands of people having already died. The RABITs operated on the basis of an EU regulation (regulation on the formation of rapid deployment teams for border security purposes; so-called RABIT regulation) and were financed from the ARGO program (an EU action program for the promotion of administrative cooperation between the member states in the areas of external borders, Visas, asylum and immigration). The Frontex operations were also co-financed from this program .

At the meeting of the Justice and Home Affairs Council (JHA Council) in Luxembourg on October 5 and 6, 2006, agreement was reached on the draft Council conclusions on strengthening the southern external sea borders, which had already been agreed in the Permanent Representatives Committee on October 3, 2006 which, among other things, provided for the installation of these RABIT units. It was planned to set up teams with a staff of 450 for use in emergency situations, at the request of a Member State. The director of the Frontex agency was empowered to decide on the deployment of the teams.

In 2011, European Border and Coast Guard Teams were created as teams to be deployed in Frontex operations. They replace the previous Joint Support Team from Frontex and the Rapid Response Team for border security purposes .

Web links

Procedure status of the RABIT regulation
FRONTEX and RABITS: the European Union is stepping up its operational efforts combating illegal immigration Press release, April 20, 2007

Individual evidence

↑ JHA Council agrees on RABITs - ECRAN Weekly Update 27-04-2007 ( Memento of July 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Agence Europe, April 21, 2007
↑ General Report 2011. Frontex, accessed on February 23, 2019 . P. 12.
↑ Rapid Border Intervention Team (RABIT) (now covered by the term European Border Guard Team). In: ec.europa.eu. February 23, 2019, accessed on February 23, 2019 . Stating the Council Regulation (EC) 863/2007 as a source.
^ European Border Guard Team. In: ec.europa.eu. February 23, 2019, accessed on February 23, 2019 . Stating the regulation (EU) No 1168/2011 as the source.

[1] JHA Council agrees on RABITs - ECRAN Weekly Update 27-04-2007 ( Memento of July 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Agence Europe, April 21, 2007

[2] General Report 2011. Frontex, accessed on February 23, 2019 . P. 12.

[3] Rapid Border Intervention Team (RABIT) (now covered by the term European Border Guard Team). In: ec.europa.eu. February 23, 2019, accessed on February 23, 2019 . Stating the Council Regulation (EC) 863/2007 as a source.

[4] European Border Guard Team. In: ec.europa.eu. February 23, 2019, accessed on February 23, 2019 . Stating the regulation (EU) No 1168/2011 as the source.