I agree with the rapporteur, Mr Pirker, that it is vital to develop a common policy of control
for our current and future external borders, which requires common standards to be established for external border management, a common gui
deline and a common core curriculum for the officials concerned, a European Staff College for senior officials, priority for funding projects for establishing common standards, a jointly-funded European Corps of Border Guards, consisting of specialist units, which would, in an emergency and at the request
...[+++] of the Member States, be temporarily seconded to assist national authorities at vulnerable sections of the EU’s external borders and in crisis situations.