Establishing a complaint mechanism: On 6 October 2016, a complaint mechanism was set up to monitor and ensure the respect for fundamental rights in the activities carried out by the European Border and Coast Guard Agency.

Among the other suggested steps to be taken by the Commission was the foundation of a European Border and Coast Guard, an increased role for the European Border and Coast Guard Agency in the organisation and coordination of returns, inter-agency cooperation, better management of Agency and Member State assets and the initiation of the new ‘hotspot’ approach.

The setting up of the European Border and Coast Guard; The proposal for a new Entry-Exit System to strengthen border management; The proposals to review the Common European Asylum System, including a reform of the Dublin mechanism; The establishment of an EU Agency for Asylum.

35. Welcomes the announcement by the Commission of the Critical Maritime Routes in the Gulf of Guinea Programme (CRIMGO), which is aimed at improving the safety of the waters of the Gulf of Guinea by providing training for coastguards and setting up a network of information-sharing among the authorities of seven coastal states of West Africa, to be funded by the Instrument for Stability; calls for the swift implementation of CRIMGO off the West African coast; calls also for specific mechanisms for cooperation to be set up to link this Commission-funded programme and the CSDP missions EUCAP Sahel Niger and EUTM Mali, whose undertakings ...[+++]are intrinsically linked to the causes of instability off the Gulf of Guinea;