It is in this context that the Assembly calls on the Committee
of Ministers to support and encourage Frontex in human rights matters,
and more specifically to:
4.1 ensure,
via its representative on the Consultative Forum on Fundamental
Rights, that the Council of Europe takes an active part in Frontex’s
human rights related activities, and that there is feedback and
a regular exchange of views within the Council of Europe on participation
in this forum and the Organisation’s input;
4.2 promote the relevant Council of Europe standards, in
particular those developed in the case law of the European Court
of Human Rights, the findings of the European Committee for the
Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
(CPT), and those of the Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking
in Human Beings (GRETA), and recommend that they are duly taken
into account in Frontex training curricula and operational procedures;
4.3 assist Frontex in strengthening its monitoring mechanisms,
including the one devised for monitoring joint return operations,
through enhanced co-operation with the CPT, GRETA and other relevant sectors
of the Council of Europe;
4.4 assist Frontex in its efforts to protect and promote
human rights, ensuring that the Council of Europe uses its privileged
ties with the respective national preventive mechanisms (European
National Prevention Mechanisms (NPM) Network) established under
the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other
Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT) and
with the Ombudsmen and national human rights institutions of its
member States (Peer-to-Peer Network).
