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The effective coordination of fisheries control activities requires adequate monitoring, surveillance and communication tools. For this purpose the EFCA set up a dedicated coordination centre in its premises. The coordination centre consists of two separate coordination rooms and a meeting/briefing room in a restricted access area.
Various high-end maritime information tools as well as access to FIS applications are provided for. These EFCA facilities are used intensively in view of the coordination of joint deployment activities by the EFCA as well as by Member State authorities.
In addition to other learning materials, the EFCA has developed an e-learning platform for the training of fisheries inspectors (including from non-EU countries), Union inspectors, and Fisheries monitoring centres’ operators.
The e-learning modules and other training material such as video tutorials are now available in various languages on the EFCA e-learning platform under:
https://training.efca.europa.eu/
Member States, European Commission and other EU-Agencies officials are invited to register by using their professional e-mail address and by generating their own password.
This short video will give you an overview of the content and learning possibilities offered by the EFCA e-learning platform.
The system is designed to capture and share data between collaborating Member States. This is now done primarily by the Member States participating in the JDPs.
The system is comprised of the following modules.
- Fishnet
In order to facilitate the collaboration between Member States and Member States and the EFCA, the EFCA has designed and created a collaboration tool called Fishnet. It is a modular web-based system that provides a virtual office-like environment designed to support the transfer of information by various means such as voice, video conferencing, e-mail and instant messaging. It also includes tools for collaborative document writing, a calendar and a mission planner.
It provides a central dashboard from where the user can access all relevant tools and information, directly related to the execution of daily and weekly tasks like the coordination of activities in all JDPs. Fishnet is also the portal through which all users access the other systems.
Who has access?
In Fishnet, different context areas are configured to grant access to specific users, depending on the content of each area. For example, members of a given JDP Technical Joint Deployment Group (TJDG) have access to a dedicated context, different than the one used by the Steering Group members. Requests for access are managed through a standard process involving JDP Steering Group members. The members of the regional Control Experts Groups (CEG) of the Baltic Sea (BALTFISH), North Sea (Scheveningen), North Western Waters and South Western Waters have also dedicated areas in FISHNET.
- Vessel Monitoring System
The vessel monitoring system, or VMS as it is widely known, is a satellite-based method of transmitting position data from a fishing vessel to the control authorities. It is a powerful tool that allows the authorities to monitor fishing vessels in near real time to target control and to check the historical positions of a fishing vessel for compliance with catch records and restricted areas.
The VMS messages are encrypted and sent by Member States and RFMOs (the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (NAFO), the North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC) and the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) secretariats) directly to the EFCA.
During the course of a JDP, the EFCA will forward specific vessel monitoring system (VMS) data to the coordination centre in charge of that JDP during the specific campaigns.
Additionally, the EFCA also forwards the VMS messages to the European Maritime Safety Agency’s (EMSA) integrated maritime data environment (Imdate) system. The data are made available to the fisheries inspection services in the Member States through the EFCA Marsurv service.
Who gets access?
The VMS is used in the JDP campaigns coordinated from the EFCA’s premises in Vigo, Spain. Therefore, it is made available to the Member States experts and the EFCA’s JDP coordinators who are taking active part in these coordination activities.
- EFCA Electronic Recording and Reporting System
The EFCA ERS application captures data from Member States which are sent by the master of the fishing vessel to its flag Member State which forwards the reports to the EFCA over the European Commission’s data exchange highway (DEH). The EFCA thereafter makes the reports available to all Member States participating in any given JDP. The data will be used by Member States to get a fuller picture of what the vessels are doing from the time they leave port until they come back to shore, capturing data such as what gears they are using, catches they have on board, where they are heading, when they are coming to shore and what catches they are landing. The information will enable the inspectors to make a more informed decision on which vessels to inspect.
Who gets access?
All Member States participating in a JDP shall have access to that JDP specific information in the ERS system. Credentials will be created to those Member State officials approved by the steering group Member State member.
- EFCA Electronic Inspection Report System
The EFCA EIR system is the latest in the suite of applications added to the EFCA architecture. It has been operational since late 2014 and is designed to increase transparency between Member States by sharing inspection report data. The EIR system supports various ways of registering data such as manual input, upload of XML files and automated data transfer over the European Commission data exchange highway.
The application has been offered to all Member States to be used as their national database for electronic inspection reports data and inspection reports as Software as a Service (SaaS).
The EFCA is offering to make the EFCA EIR system available to all Member States, individually, to be used as if it was their own. The application is accessed over the internet and is hosted centrally by the EFCA. Each Member State will be given its own individual data depository within the database and will itself administer the user rights and access levels to its data.
The EFCA IMS (former Marsurv service) is an operational fisheries control coordination tool using the integrated maritime data environment (Imdate) developed by the EMSA. This EFCA-EMSA interagency cooperation project provides support to the EFCA and Member States’ JDP operations in the Mediterranean, Black Sea, North and Eastern Atlantic, North Sea and Baltic Sea waters. It includes a real-time maritime awareness operational picture fusing and correlating VMS, terrestrial automatic identification systems (AIS), satellite AIS, and long-range identification and tracking (LRIT) position reports together with visual sightings. The service provides a tool for behaviour analysis, risk assessment and classification of possible non-compliance targets to fisheries monitoring centres in Member States, and drives the fisheries monitoring activity assessment and follow-up performed by the EFCA.
If you are interested in participating in negotiated procedures mentioned below, please contact procurement@efca.europa.eu mentioning the title of the planned tender. The list will be updated regularly. Please follow also the published calls for tender on the EFCA website.
Find below the EFCA procurement plan for 2024 (once the tenders are launched they are announced in Funding & Tenders Portal, go through the links from open calls or negotiated procedure - pages):
1. Open calls above 143 000€:
Title | Type |
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First half of 2024: | |
- Banking Services | Services |
- Intermediary service for trainings. Lot 1: Language training. Lot 2: Specialist maritime training. Lot 3: Management training | Services |
- Interim services for EFCA and EU-OSHA (inter-agency tender, lead by EU-OSHA) | Services |
Second half of 2024: | Services |
- Legal services in the field of maritime and marine insurance law and law of the sea and aviation law | Services |
2. Low and middle value negotiated procedures below 143 000€:
Title | Type |
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First half 2024: | |
- Subscription Services for EU-OSHA and EFCA (interagency tender, lead by EU-OSHA) | Services |
- Microsoft products | Supplies |
Second half 2024: | |
- Cleaning Services | Services |
The list of records of EFCA current activities processing personal data follows:
DPR-01 Operational experts’ database
DPR-06 Database users training platform
DPR-03 Meetings organised by Unit Coast Guard and International Programmes (specific privacy statement)
DPR-07 List of contacts to support operational activities
DPR-08 Management Members of the Administrative and Advisory Board (specific privacy statement)
DPR-09 Management of distribution list for journalists (specific privacy statement)
DPR-10 Management of lists of stakeholders (specific privacy statement)
DPR-11 External Management of lists of stakeholders
DPR-12 Personal data related to health
DPR-14 Procurement procedures and contract execution (specific privacy statement)
DPR-15 Union inspector list and ID cards
DPR-16 Closed Circuit Television system (specific privacy statement)
DPR-19 Recruitment procedure TA, CA, SNE (specific privacy statement)
DPR-21 Security access control system + visitors' registration
DPR-22 List of vehicles and their owners that use the garage in EFCA building
DPR-23 Applications for outside activities; work after leaving EFCA (specific privacy statement)
DPR-24 Time management
DPR-25 Production of business cards for EFCA staff
DPR-27 Processing of data related to pensions
DPR-28 Handling of spontaneous applications
DPR-30 Reception and transmission of denouncements (specific privacy statement)
DPR-31 Requests for access to documents (specific privacy statement)
DPR-33 Registration Protocol Service of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (special I.D. card and NIF)
DPR-34 Registration of Vehicles under Special Series; Applications for VAT recovery
DPR-35 Data on nationals working at EFCA – Info provided to Embassies and PermReps to the EU
DPR-36 Earnings and tax exemption certificates for staff
DPR-39 Personnel Files (Temporary and Contract staff, SNE)
DPR-40 Production of EFCA information Medical cards and SERGAS affiliation
DPR-41 Preparation and conduct of on-the-spot evaluation missions in third countries (specific privacy statement)
DPR-43 EFCA Joint Deployment Plans in International Waters (specific privacy statement)
DPR-44 Administrative inquiries and disciplinary proceedings (specific privacy statement)
DPR-45 Anti-harassment procedures (specific privacy statement)
DPR-48 Whistle-blowing procedure (specific privacy statement)
DPR-49 Creation and maintenance of ECAS account
DPR-50 Conflict of interest
DPR-52 Staff evaluation
DPR-54 Generic ICT infrastructure
DPR-58 Reimbursement of annual medical examination costs
DPR-60 Requests of Laissez-passer
DPR-62 RPAS (specific privacy statement)
DPR-64 Covid-19 pandemic crisis. Handling of positive cases (specific privacy statement)
DPR-63 EU-SIGN – EIDAS (pilot project)
DPR-66 IUU Survey (specific privacy statement)
DPR-68 EU Survey Training within the Mediterranean - Black Sea participants (specific privacy statement)
DPR-69 EU Survey cross-sector risk assessment activities (specific privacy statement)
DPR-71 Independent External Evaluation (specific privacy statement)
DPR-73 e-Fish Med Questionnaire (specific privacy statement)
DPR-74.4 Coast Guard Cooperation Handbook and Capacity Building Project (privacy statements: General and specific for Greening Award initiative)
DPR-76 Aerial Sightings (specific privacy statement)
DPR-77 e-Fish Med ( specific privacy statement)
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