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In response to widespread human rights violations involving the European Border and Coast GuardAgency (Frontex), multiple accountability mechanisms were activated, leading to the resignation ofthe agency's executive director. Does this mean the current framework can ensure Frontex's overallaccountability? Playing with IT metaphors, this article scrutinises Frontex's accountability frameworkas a whole. It explores a holistic understanding of accountability, which includes judicial and non-judicial (administrative, democratic, social) accountability mechanisms that can together safeguardthe Rule of Law. The article highlights the fragmented and ineffective current accountability frame-work. It challenges traditional accountability notions and suggests a ‘system reset’, introducing theconcept of systemic accountability. Systemic accountability addresses systemic issues underlyingconsistent rights violations through focused structural solutions. As an accountability model, it canbe applied further than Frontex operations to the complex realities of shared administration atexternal borders, where multiple actors and obscured accountabilities lead to systemic violations.
