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… Maastricht Centre for European Law Master Working Paper 2015/5 Leonie Kijewski Protecting Borders, People and Rights at Sea? An Analysis of Frontex’s Approach to Human Rights All rights reserved No part of this paper may be reproduced in any form without the permission … units shall, in the performance of their duties, fully respect human dignity”.114 As regards SAR obligations, Article 5(1) lays down that the participating units have to verify, when detecting a vessel that is suspected of attempting to avoid border checks or smuggle persons, whether there is an imminent risk to the lives of the persons on board”.115 Moreover, Article 9 reaffirms that Member States have to respect their SAR obligations during Frontex-coordinated joint operations.116 The article … a SAR operation takes place on the high seas, the rescued persons should always be disembarked in an EU Member State if this is the next port of call. If the next port of call is a third state, the staff members on the Joint Operation vessels have to check the updated information provided for by Frontex about the human rights situation in this country. If it is unclear whether an effective asylum system is in place, the per- sons should be disembarked in EU territory. Fourth, if people are …