Abstract
This paper outlines an extensive analysis of the case of Montenegro’s maritime surveillance system becoming integrated within the European Common Information Sharing Environment (CISE). Threats to secure maritime borders across Europe are ever-present and regularly demand coordinated efforts between the member states to tackle and prevent them, e.g. illegal immigration across the Mediterranean. Administration for Maritime Safety and Port Management (AMSPM) in Montenegro is a member of the ANDROMEDA EU project that seeks to facilitate deployments and demonstrations of CISE trials across the European regions, towards their endorsement readiness. AMSPM is now at the forefront of assessing and deploying the CISE components in Montenegro. It thus appropriately evaluates the operational aspects, observes the CISE implementations in some European states, formulates the impact for other national stakeholders, as well as the very prospect of the resulting augmented maritime surveillance in the country. This substantiates the content of this paper as the feasibility of the CISE deployment in Montenegro, supported by a snapshot of the cost-benefit analysis. We aspire to offer novel perspectives and insights that could be a universally useful experience to different CISE implementation initiatives, especially for countries or regions of similar smaller sizes and coastal area.
Highlights
Efficient border security within the realm of independent states as well as in the wider context of the European Union (EU) remains an enormous and cumbersome task
The Common Information Sharing Environment (CISE) builds upon the previous initiative of the European Border Surveillance System – EUROSUR [4] of a lesser scope, which had the main objective of augmented situational awareness and reaction capability at external EU borders, focusing on southern maritime and eastern land borders
– Resolving the objectives behind the two realisation stages: a) only as the transitional feature connecting to the EU CISE network and as a limited bridging facility between various legacy systems and organisations nationally, and/or, b) as a stand-alone open network backbone service to grow into a country-wide system with comprehensively integrated CISE services and data models
Summary
Efficient border security within the realm of independent states as well as in the wider context of the European Union (EU) remains an enormous and cumbersome task. The CISE builds upon the previous initiative of the European Border Surveillance System – EUROSUR [4] of a lesser scope, which had the main objective of augmented situational awareness and reaction capability at external EU borders, focusing on southern maritime and eastern land borders This is taken further in the CISE, which aims to make different maritime systems interoperable by facilitating exchanges of relevant maritime surveillance data and services by reusing the existing standards and their vocabularies. There will be a prior decision to allow unrestrained modality of operation within the EU CISE network in the meantime This is currently being sought after by AMSPM acting as the national stakeholder, which is associated with and conforms to the mutual agreements with the national ministerial bodies and specific executive maritime security and safety institutions: Border Police sector and Navy (with Army).
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