Forced Return Monitoring Systems – 2025 update
The latest report covers the period until the end of 2024.
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FRA has inquired about the follow-up by the national authorities to the findings captured in the monitoring reports. This particularly concerns observations on the use of coercive measures.
Monitoring bodies typically submit a monitoring report with their findings and recommendations. As promising practice, the Austrian monitoring body holds follow-up meetings with the authorities. Additionally, the initiatives at various German airports have been designed to include regular discussions of monitoring findings, usually on a quarterly basis.
Most monitoring bodies report that their recommendations have been positively received. Still, a few monitoring entities replied to FRA that they did not receive any information, nor did they observe any follow up to their recommendations.