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Year of creation: 1994 Presidency 2016: Roumanie Website: www.fiep.org/ 
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Participating strengths
• Members: Spanish Guardia Civil (1994), the French Gendarmerie Nationale (1994), the Italian Arma dei Carabinieri (1994), the Portuguese Guarda Nacional republicana (1996), the Turkish Jandarma (1998), the Dutch Royal Marechaussee (1999), the Moroccan Royal Gendarmerie (1999), the Romanian Jandarmeria (2002), the Jordanian Gendarmerie Forces (2011).
• Associated forces: the Argentinian Gendarmeria Nacional, the Chilean carabineros (2005), the Qatari "Laekhwiya" Internal Security Force (2013).
• Observers: the Tunisian National Guard and the Palestinian National Security Forces (2015).
Functioning
The FIEP, which at first gathered institutions of France, Italy, Spain and Portugal, is a euro-Mediterranean Gendarmerie and police forces with military status association. The association statutes were signed on October 20th, 1999 and were modified on four occasions since then. The FIEP is organized around a Higher Council (or “Superior Council”) and around four technical committees.
The Higher Council:
The Higher Council gathers the directors/General commanders of the member institutions, the associate members and observers’ members of the Association. During its annual meeting, the presidency presents the results of the work realized during the past year, following the previously fixed objectives. On the basis of these results, the Higher Council defines the general policy and the program for the year to come. It prepares the work schedule for each of the commitments made by the Association.
Technical committees:
Every committee meets once a year. Composed of experts of members’ institutions, the committees intervene on beforehand-reserved questions, which generally concerned the Human resources, the Organization of the Service, the New Technologies and the Logistics as well as European Affairs.
Every committee works in coordination with the Presidency of the Association and according to the instructions given by the Higher Council.
Presidency:
The FIEP Presidency is alternately ensured on an annual rotating base. The position is passed on during the Higher Council session. The French National Gendarmerie held the FIEP Presidency in 2015, period during which the works were made around the theme “the challenges of the digital transformation”. In this context, the Association was invited to take part in the Cyber Security international Forum (FIC), organized in Lille in January 2015.
A seminar was also dedicated to works on drones and the “Intelligent Transport System”. Running on from this seminar, a French National Gendarmerie capacities presentation in these cutting-edges fields, was organized for the benefit of the General directors and commanders who attended the Higher Council of October, 2015. The Rumanian Jandarmeria took over in October 2015. It carries out researches on the “prevention of the radicalization and the exploitation of the intelligence in the fight against terrorism and the violent extremism”.
Missions
FIEP aims at broadening and strengthening the relationship and cooperation between its members in order to better answer today’s major security issues. Thus, it allows the European and Mediterranean gendarmeries to remain at the highest technical level, but also to develop capacities and to share their values, with real perspectives regarding return in internal security and global stability. FIEP also intends to develop synergies with the European authorities by leading concrete actions, such as the "TAIEX-GIMAT" trainings (modules on the fight against illegal immigration, conducted to the benefit of police forces located in the vicinity of the European Union).