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Mr President, Mr Rübig, I would draw your attention to the fact that the Member States have been working together with the candidate countries on matters relating to the land border for years now as part of the twinning programmes between them, because the Commission does not have any border guards of its own. Several Member States are working with Slovakia and Poland to police the external land borders. In this respect, I can say that the Commission is insisting that the candidate countries take their commitment to police these borders seriously and that the Council working group tasked with assessing border controls and the centre for land borders, based in Germany, are monitoring all issues relating to the future external land border very carefully, and that includes the Slovak green border, but also the Polish green border, which is quite extensive.
I can therefore say that although the Commission cannot provide border guards itself, we are supporting all of the joint operations carried out by Slovakia and the Member States that seek to improve the policing of this border.
Perhaps I might also add in this regard that I believe it is right to acknowledge that all of these countries have made very significant progress on border policing. They have not yet reached the standard required by the Schengen Agreement. That is precisely why accession to Schengen will take place in stages and in accordance with a method based on assessing each country's actual ability to guarantee the security of the European Union's external borders after enlargement."@en1
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