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The deal will enable mutually beneficial cooperation between the UK and Frontex (the European Union Border and Coast Guard Agency) across a range of areas to tackle illegal migration and cross-border crime.

The working arrangement was announced during Commissioner Johanssons visit to the UK on 23 February 2024.

It provides the basis for cooperation in areas including:

• exchange of information and intelligence, situational awareness and risk analysis, including through the framework of EUROSUR (the European Border Surveillance System)
• capacity building and training
• collaboration on research and innovation projects
• technical and operational cooperation (including the deployment of staff from both sides in observation, coordination or advisory capacities)
• sharing best practice and expertise, including on border management
• exchange of liaison officers
• other related cooperation as agreed between the sides

The arrangement emphasises our shared commitment to taking robust action to tackle organised immigration crime, be it in the Channel, along the EUs external border or further upstream.