The present Call for Proposals aims at funding projects in the area of law enforcement information exchange.

Project applications submitted under the present Call for Proposals must address the priority of improving law enforcement information exchange by strengthening the ability of the personnel of Member States' PIUs to:

• Effectively process, analyse and use PNR data (as a necessary step for sharing PNR data);
• Exchange all relevant and necessary PNR data with the PIUs of other Member States and with Europol, by using the technical solutions available for this purpose.

The following types of activities are eligible under this Call for Proposals:

1. Projects providing for training actions on PNR in the EU Member States
2. Projects providing for awareness-raising actions on EU objectives policies and legal framework on PNR among stakeholders and the general public, including corporate communication on the EU political priorities;
3. The projects under a) and b) supplemented with similar activities concerning training and/or awareness raising on PNR targeted to the Western Balkans, comprising both current EU candidate countries (Albania, Montenegro, Serbia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) and potential candidate countries (Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo under UN Security Council Resolution 1244/99) in the region

The Community provisional funding available for the call for proposals is:

• 1,50 Million EUR (Global Budget)

• 25 April 2019 - in 3 months (Deadline for the presentation of proposals)

• Official page of the Call

• Call for Proposals (Legal base)

Opened to the following bodies or institutes with legal status established in the covered areas:

• Local authorities
• Regional authorities
• National authorities

Bodies or institutes must have their registered legal seat in one of the countries taking part in the Programme which are:

• European Union (EU)

Directorate-General for Justice, Freedom and Security

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