Notification letter - Your proposal for the Specific Action “Promoting innovation in border checks and/or border surveillance by taking up research results – INNO” – BMVI/2024/SA/1.1.5.

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EUROPEAN COMMISSION DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR MIGRATION AND HOME AFFAIRS

Directorate E – HOME Affairs Funds

E.3 – North, West and Central Europe (II)

Brussels HOME.E.1/MGM

Mr Tarmo Miilits

Permanent Secretary

Ministry of the Interior

Pikk 61, 15065 Tallinn,

Estonia

[email protected]

Subject: Notification letter - Your proposal for the Specific Action “Promoting

innovation in border checks and/or border surveillance by taking up

research results – INNO” – BMVI/2024/SA/1.1.5.

Dear Mr Miilits,

I have the pleasure to inform you that your application “Piloting of Multi-Layer Counter-

UAS position” (ref. BMVI/2024/SA/1.1.5/001) has been selected, with the following

recommendations:

1. You are invited to describe in your future Annual Performance Reports (1) how this

specific action complements the activities carried out under the programme funded

by the Border Management and Visa Policy Instrument (BMVI) in the 2021-2027

programming period (including those under Specific Action BMVI/2021-

2022/SA/1.2.1/003 for the “Establishment of mobile autonomous remote

surveillance capability”).

2. You are invited to clarify how the activities under this specific action fit with your

national capability development plan.

3. You are encouraged to present the project under this application to other interested

Member States and Frontex and to reflect on its use in joint operations.

Please liaise with the responsible country desk officer in DG HOME, before the submission

of the new version of your programme incorporating the specific action, to inform about

the implementation of these recommendations, as well as to discuss the adjustment of the

(1) Section 1.5 of the template for the report, established in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU)

2023/168 of 25 January 2023.

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programme output and results indicators (2) and the arrangements for the transmission of

data (3).

Funding for the specific action as set out in Annex 1 of this letter will be added to your

programme 2021EE65BVPR001 via an amendment. Annex 1 also gives you general

guidance on which sections of the programme will need to be adjusted to incorporate the

specific action.

Annex 2 provides information on the distribution of the additional allocation per year.

The Commission services will make the necessary changes in SFC to enable the generation

of Appendix 3 - Thematic facility in the programme template in line with the information

on the specific action as set out in Annex 1.

The specific action must be implemented by the Member States in accordance with the

BMVI Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2021/1148) and the Common Provisions Regulation

(Regulation (EU) 2021/1060).

Yours sincerely,

Doede Ackers

Head of Unit

c.c.: Ms Aivi KUIVONEN, Adviser, Foreign Financing Department Direct,

[email protected];

Mr Andrea GIANNETTO, [email protected].

Enclosures: Annex 1 – Model Appendix 3 including information on the allocated

funding and general guidance

Annex 2 - Total distribution of the additional allocation per year – for

information

(2) Attention should be paid to output indicator O.1.1, which as explained in the Indicators’ guidance

(Ares(2022)2447428 of 01/04/2022) covers also items of equipment purchased for border surveillance

purposes.

(3) The code that should be used, in Table 2 of Annex VI to Regulation (EU) 2021/1148, is 013: deployment

or other follow-up of research projects.

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Annex 1 – Model Appendix 3 - and general guidance

The below table is the model of the Appendix 3 that will be included in your BMVI

programme. It will be generated in SFC by the desk officer for your country who will be

in touch with you regarding this.

Appendix 3 - to the BMVI programme of Estonia

Procedure reference: C(2022)8993 – 12.12.2022

THEMATIC FACILITY DETAIL

Specific objective Modality

Type of

intervention

Union contribution (4)

Pre-

financing

rate

SO 1 Specific Action Will not be

filled in SFC 4 476 494.70

Will not be

filled in SFC

TA.36(5).

Technical

assistance - flat

rate (Art. 36(5)

CPR)

Will not be filled in

SFC

Will not be

filled in SFC 268 589.68

Will not be

filled in SFC

Description of the action:

This specific action focuses on promoting the uptake (validation, piloting in real

environment, procurement and/or deployment) of new technologies and methods for

border management, especially those coming from Union-funded research and innovation

projects on border management.

It aims to test innovative technological solutions at the EU external border through the

establishment of a counter-drone position, capable of detecting and intercepting flying

objects near the Russian border, which will consist of a stationary position (mast equipped

with sensors/jammers) and a container equipped with hard kill solution.

Once the Appendix 3 becomes available and the Thematic Facility proposal has been

accepted by you in SFC, you will have the opportunity to create a new programme version

to include the information and data related to the specific action, i.e.:

1. a brief reference to the specific action(s) (i.e., the reference number(s) of the

project) in the narrative description of the relevant Specific Objective (SO). 

2. the adjusted output and result indicators (Section 2.1.2, Tables 1 and 2 of the

relevant SO); where needed you should revise the performance methodology paper

to align its content with the indicators as amended.

3. the additional amount linked to the specific action(s) broken down by type of

intervention (Section 2.1.3, Table 3 of the relevant SO).  

(4) Please note that the amount of Union contribution and Technical Assistance may differ by a few cents

when 2 or more specific actions are included in the programme at the same time. The values in the

respective notification letters are presented with only two decimals, which may lead to slight

discrepancies with the automatic calculation of the amount in SFC.

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4. the additional amount linked to Technical Assistance broken down by type of

intervention (Section 2.2.2, Table 4).

5. the Union contribution and national contribution to the specific action under the

relevant SO in Table 6 (the Union contribution to the Technical Assistance will be

added automatically).

As indicated in guidance note HOME-Funds/2023/12 (5), Member States must submit a

“reasoned request for an amendment of a programme” in accordance with Article 24(1)

CPR. To this end, when sending the new programme version, the Member States are

invited to add a short document in SFC providing an overview of the changes introduced

and their expected impact on the programme’s specific objectives.

(5) Ares(2023)2447967 – 04/04/2023

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Annex 2 - Total distribution of the additional allocation per year

2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027

Amount of

additional

appropriations

per year in

EUR (will be

added to the

initial

allocation in

Table 5 by the

desk officer in

SFC prior to

approval).

4 745 084.38

Electronically signed on 18/12/2024 18:05 (UTC+01) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121