Frontex as a European Coast Guard : a scorecard of public value generation by Frontex towards the eleven coast guard functions
Iljina, Ilja (2019)
Iljina, Ilja
Sotataidon laitos
Operaatiotaito ja taktiikka
Yleisesikuntaupseerikurssin opiskelijan diplomityö
General Staff Officer Course 59
2019
Julkinen
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2019103136042
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2019103136042
Tiivistelmä
The research maps out, in detail, the various concrete ways in which the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) through its activities contributes towards the provision of public value in line with the eleven public functions commonly referred to in the European framework as the coast guard functions. To support the aforementioned general narrative, and to provide a holistic picture of the field of coast guard functions provision at the European level, public value generation by other European Agencies (mainly the European Maritime Safety Agency and the European Fisheries Control Agency) is also covered by the research to a limited degree.
The process of mapping out these concrete ways of public value generation was conceptualized as a form of performance measurement using the Public Value Scorecard model by Dr. Mark Moore. Based on the model, a specific Frontex Coast Guard Functions Scorecard was created as the performance
measurement framework for the research. The Scorecard was then applied to the reference year of 2017 in order to appraise the concrete public value generated towards coast guard functions by Frontex on the given year. The data for the Scorecard was collected from publicly available statistics, by further data requests to Frontex, by interviews with Frontex officials and with officials from other European agencies, by analyzing media coverage as well as by online questionnaires to Frontex, to other European Agencies and to the majority of the European national coast guard authorities.
The results provide a thorough picture of the arrangement of coast guard functions provision on the European level and on Frontex’s contribution towards them. The results indicate that Frontex directly contributes to six of the eleven coast guard functions and that Frontex’s contribution can be assessed as
significant on at least the coast guard functions of maritime law enforcement, maritime search and rescue, maritime border control and maritime monitoring and surveillance.
In conclusion, Frontex is a significant actor in the field of coast guard functions in Europe. Considering
that the Frontex mandate was significantly reinforced in 2016 and that the implementation of the new
mandate is still in many ways a work in progress, Frontex’s role is poised to markedly grow in the
upcoming years. In the long term, the growing power of Frontex can lead to national coast guard
authorities questioning the need for the duplication of certain capabilities on the national level.
The process of mapping out these concrete ways of public value generation was conceptualized as a form of performance measurement using the Public Value Scorecard model by Dr. Mark Moore. Based on the model, a specific Frontex Coast Guard Functions Scorecard was created as the performance
measurement framework for the research. The Scorecard was then applied to the reference year of 2017 in order to appraise the concrete public value generated towards coast guard functions by Frontex on the given year. The data for the Scorecard was collected from publicly available statistics, by further data requests to Frontex, by interviews with Frontex officials and with officials from other European agencies, by analyzing media coverage as well as by online questionnaires to Frontex, to other European Agencies and to the majority of the European national coast guard authorities.
The results provide a thorough picture of the arrangement of coast guard functions provision on the European level and on Frontex’s contribution towards them. The results indicate that Frontex directly contributes to six of the eleven coast guard functions and that Frontex’s contribution can be assessed as
significant on at least the coast guard functions of maritime law enforcement, maritime search and rescue, maritime border control and maritime monitoring and surveillance.
In conclusion, Frontex is a significant actor in the field of coast guard functions in Europe. Considering
that the Frontex mandate was significantly reinforced in 2016 and that the implementation of the new
mandate is still in many ways a work in progress, Frontex’s role is poised to markedly grow in the
upcoming years. In the long term, the growing power of Frontex can lead to national coast guard
authorities questioning the need for the duplication of certain capabilities on the national level.
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