33. Considers the objective of truly EU integrated border management as legitimate and agrees that is important to continuously develop and strengthen the EU's common policy on border management; stresses, however, the need for an evaluation and assessment of existing systems and those under preparation before moving ahead with the new building blocks as proposed by the Commission in its Communication enti
tled "Preparing the next steps in border management in the European Union" (COM(2008)0069); insists furthermore on a comprehensive master plan, setting out the overall architecture of the EU's border strategy as well as the details fo
...[+++]r how all related programmes and schemes are supposed to collectively function and how the relationship among related programmes can be optimised;