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Border management is currently going through significant transformation. To address the need for the Schengen Area to move towards more modern and efficient border management by using state-of-theart technology, the European Commission proposed the ‘Smart Borders package’ on 28 February 2013. This package contained legal proposals for establishing two systems that should help to speed up, facilitate and reinforce border-check

This document represents the first key output of the Research and Technology Monitoring Strategy 2015-2017 and should provide a bridge between the general missions and goals identified therein and the daily work of research and technology monitoring carried out by relevant Agency staff.