Juha Sipila

Functional responsibility for the decisions of the European Council from 05/2015–06/2019

This includes:

• November 2015 Action Plan decided at the Valletta Summit, which launched the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa to assist with “migration management projects" and thus created a financial tool for the future trainig of the LYCG (See European Council Report, 2015 - Valletta Summit). Sipila's own government supported the fund with 5 million Euros. (See European Council Report, 2015 – Valletta Summit)

• the June 2016 Council conclusions, which expressed its approval of Operation Sophia's involvement in “training the Libyan coastguard. (See European Council Report, 2016)

• the December 2016 Council conclusions, which emphasized the goal of supporting the Libyan coastguard through Operation Sophia (See European Council Report, 2016)

• the 2017 Malta conference, at which Council members called for EU to “train, equip and support the Libyan national coast guard” (See European Council Report: 2017: The Libyan Coastguards)

• the June 2018 conclusions, which called on “all vessels... not [to] obstruct operations of the Libyan coastguard.” (See European Council Report: 2018)

Functional responsibility for the decisions of the European Council 5/2015–06/2019

This includes:

• November 2015 Action Plan decided at the Valletta Summit, which laid the groundwork for sharing maritime surveillance data with Libya. (See European Council Report, 2015 – Valletta Summit)