e) Cooperation between national authorities

«Inter-agency cooperation among the national authorities in each Member State which are responsible for border control or for other tasks carried out at the border, as well as between authorities responsible for return in each Member State, including the regular exchange of information through existing information exchange tools, including, where appropriate, cooperation with national bodies in charge of protecting fundamental rights»

^{(Art. 3, para. 1, let. e Regulation (EU) 2019/1896 on the European Border and Coast Guard)}

Strategic objectives of IBM strategy III and measures

Strategic objective e1: Strengthen cooperation between the border management authorities and law enforcement services in order to combat cross-border crime.

Standard measures
	Measures	Authorities	Related objectives	Project launch	Project completion
e1b	National anti-migrant smuggling strategy: fedpol is to work with the relevant partners to develop a national strategy to combat organised crime (to be adopted by the Federal Council/CCJPD), which also includes the issue of organised human smuggling.	fedpol		Q3 2024	Q4 2025
e1d	National Expert Group against Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling (NEGEM): Include the topic of human trafficking and the associated awareness-raising as an agenda item in the meetings of the National Expert Group against Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling (NEGEM).	fedpol		2024	2028/29
e1e	Nation Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking: The 2023-27 NAP to combat human trafficking is to be implemented by 2027.	fedpol Partners mentioned in the Action Plan		2023	Q4 2027

Strategic objective e2: Have a body of federal and cantonal representatives with the authority and budget to define and monitor binding operational standards and joint processes for coordinating border management.

Key measures
PGH-2 reFRONT report	Stronger Border Steering Group: The CCJPD and federal authorities are to create a joint body that has the appropriate powers and budget to define and monitor operational standards and joint coordination processes in border control (e.g. ‘Swiss evaluation’ along the lines of the Schengen Evaluation).
PGH-4 reFRONT report	External responsibility and internal competence: Link responsibility towards external actors (e.g. Frontex, EU) with the competence to manage the border control authorities internally.

Key measures

PGH-2

reFRONT report

Stronger Border Steering Group:
The CCJPD and federal authorities are to create a joint body that has the appropriate powers and budget to define and monitor operational standards and joint coordination processes in border control (e.g. ‘Swiss evaluation’ along the lines of the Schengen Evaluation).

PGH-4

reFRONT report

External responsibility and internal competence:
Link responsibility towards external actors (e.g. Frontex, EU) with the competence to manage the border control authorities internally.

Standard measures
	Measures	Authorities	Related objectives	Project launch	Project completion
	Further measures may result from reFRONT.

Strategic objective e3: Centrally coordinate training, risk analyses, processes, infrastructure and technology.

Key measures
PGH-1 reFRONT report	Harmonisation of core and support processes: Jointly develop standard core and support processes to manage Switzerland's external Schengen borders.
PGH-5 reFRONT report	Central offices recommended at the expert level: Create the central offices recommended at the expert level (Schengen Competence Centre / training; Border Control Competence Centre / processes, infrastructure, technology; Swiss Risk Analysis Centre / risk analysis).

Key measures

PGH-1

reFRONT report

Harmonisation of core and support processes:
Jointly develop standard core and support processes to manage Switzerland's external Schengen borders.

PGH-5

reFRONT report

Central offices recommended at the expert level:
Create the central offices recommended at the expert level (Schengen Competence Centre / training; Border Control Competence Centre / processes, infrastructure, technology; Swiss Risk Analysis Centre / risk analysis).

Standard measures
	Measures	Authorities	Related objectives	Project launch	Project completion
	Further measures may result from reFRONT.

Completed measures

Completed measures
	Measures	Authorities	Related objectives	Project launch	Project completion
IBM-II	reFRONT: (key measure) Review cooperation between national border control authorities.	SEM (+ Cantonal and federal border control authorities)		01.04.2020	24.02.2023
IBM-II	Funding (review of incentives for implementing the 2027 IBM Action Plan): (key measure) Analyse financial incentives for implementing the 2027 IBM Strategy.	SEM (+ Cantonal and federal border control authorities)		24.11.2021	31.12.2022
e1a	Awareness-raising of the Swiss Conference of Public Prosecutors: The border management authorities are to raise awareness among their control bodies for cantonal law enforcement; the Swiss Conference of Public Prosecutors are to inform their members about the border management authorities’ concerns.	GS CSPP (+ SEM)		Q1 2025	Q4 2025 (suspended)
e1c	Migrant smuggling report: fedpol is to prepare a report with the title ‘Commercial migrant smuggling and Switzerland’ (follow-up report to the 2014 fedpol report).	fedpol		Q1 2024	Q1 2025