FRA guidance on independent border monitoring presented at ODIHR stakeholders meeting

FRA presented to Polish stakeholders key aspects of the nine building blocks of its new guidance on independent monitoring mechanisms under the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum. The FRA guidance is based on and gives effect to the EU Screening Regulation which obliges Member States to set up such independent national mechanisms by mid-2026.

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Some 30 participants were in attendance, including representatives of the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights, the Office of the Commissioner for Children’s Rights, the Ministry of the Interior and Administration, as well as international organisations, NGOs, and academia.

FRA’s participation was part of a broader engagement with Member States’ authorities and National Human Rights Institutions on how to operationalise the new FRA guidance in the national contexts and already existing human rights monitoring landscapes.

The OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights organised the meeting. It took place in Warsaw on 1 October.