Frontex Risk Analysis Network Quarterly Report October-December 2016

FRAN Quarterly reports are prepared by the Frontex Risk Analysis Unit (RAU) and provide a regular overview of irregular migration at the EU’s external borders, based on the irregular migration data exchanged among Member State border-control authorities within the cooperative frame work of the Frontex Risk Analysis Network (FRAN) and its subsidiary, the European Union Document-Fraud Risk Analysis Network (EDF-RAN). This report is a comparative analysis of FRAN data collected between October and December 2016 and exchanged among 31 Member State border-control authorities within the framework of the Frontex Risk Analysis Network (FRAN). As in previous years, the fourth quarter issue only consists of a brief situational overview and statistical tables. This is due to the fact that a comprehensive annual analytical report (Risk Analysis for 2017) was published very recently, its reference period overlapping with the FRAN Quarterly for Q4. The report presents the results of statistical analysis of quarterly changes of eight irregular-migration indicators and one asylum indicator, aggregated atthe level of the event. Analytical reports exchanged by Member States were also used for interpretative purposes and to provide qualitative information, as were other available sources of information, such as Frontex Joint Operations.