Justice, freedom and security

The creation of the area of freedom, security and justice derives from Title V of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (Articles 67–89). The area was created to ensure the absence of border control at internal borders while offering a high level of protection to citizens.

According to Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union, which sets out the objectives of the European Union (EU), the EU offers its citizens an area of freedom, security and justice without internal frontiers. 

The absence of border control is ensured in conjunction with appropriate measures respecting external border control, asylum, immigration and preventing and combating crime, while also including judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters and police cooperation.

• • Free movement of persons, asylum and immigration
    • Combating document fraud: the false and authentic documents online system
    • EU freedom of movement and residence
    • Free movement of European citizens within the Union
      • Security of identity cards and residence documents
      • EU digital COVID certificate
      • Schengen evaluation and monitoring
      • Schengen
      • Rules on crossing EU borders
    • Schengen information system II
      • Interoperability between EU information systems in the field of freedom, security and justice
      • European Union Agency for the Operational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (eu-LISA)
      • A strengthened Schengen information system
    • Penetrating external borders
      • Obligation of air carriers to communicate passenger data
      • European Border and Coast Guard
      • EU instrument for financial support for customs control equipment (2021–2027)
      • Eurodac: European system for the comparison of fingerprints of asylum applicants (until 2026)
      • Eurodac – Database for asylum and migration management (from 2026)
      • Financial support for EU’s external borders and the common visa policy: Internal Security Fund
      • Financial Support for Border Management and Visa Policy
      • Controlling the EU external maritime borders and saving immigrants’ lives in operations at sea
      • Stepping up cross-border cooperation – the Prüm decision
      • Schengen evaluation and monitoring
      • Local border traffic at external land borders
      • Frontex status agreements with non-EU countries
      • Screening of non-EU nationals at the EU’s external borders
    • Visas
      • Uniform format for visas issued to non-EU nationals
      • European Union Agency for the Operational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (eu-LISA)
      • EU instrument for financial support for customs control equipment (2021–2027)
      • Financial support for EU’s external borders and the common visa policy: Internal Security Fund
      • Financial Support for Border Management and Visa Policy
      • Facilitated transit document (FTD) and facilitated rail transit document (FRTD)
      • Establishment of the visa information system (VIS) – Stage 1
      • Combating document fraud: FADO image-archiving system
      • Rules for access to the EU’s Visa Information System (VIS)
      • The European Union’s entry/exit system
      • The European travel information and authorisation system (ETIAS)
      • Integration of biometric features in passports and travel documents
      • Visa waiver agreements
      • Visa requirements for non-EU nationals
      • Visa facilitation
      • Visa Code
      • VIS regulation
    • Asylum
      • Screening of non-EU nationals at the EU’s external borders
      • EU resettlement and humanitarian admission framework regulation
      • EP resolution on the situation of unaccompanied minors in the EU
      • EU migration and asylum policy — situations of crisis and force majeure
      • European Union asylum procedures (until 2026)
      • European Union asylum procedures (from 2026)
      • European Union Agency for the Operational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (eu-LISA)
      • Eurodac: European system for the comparison of fingerprints of asylum applicants (until 2026)
      • Eurodac – Database for asylum and migration management (from 2026)
      • EU asylum policy: EU Member State responsible for examining applications
      • EU asylum and migration policy – Member State responsible for examining asylum applications and new solidarity mechanism (from 2026)
      • Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (2021-2027)
      • Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund
      • Reception conditions for applicants for international protection – EU rules
      • Refugees and stateless persons – common standards for qualification (until 2026)
      • Refugees and stateless persons – common standards for qualification (from 2026)
      • Return border procedure regulation (RBPR)
      • Temporary protection if there is a mass influx of displaced people
      • Living conditions for asylum seekers – EU rules (until 2026)
    • Immigration and rights of nationals of non-EU countries
      • Non-EU workers — a single permit for residence and work in the EU (2026)
      • EU migration and asylum policy — situations of crisis and force majeure
      • Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (2021-2027)
      • Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund
      • Recognition of qualifications for Ukrainian refugees
      • Reception conditions for applicants for international protection – EU rules
      • Refugees and stateless persons – common standards for qualification (until 2026)
      • Refugees and stateless persons – common standards for qualification (from 2026)
      • The protection of children in migration
      • Immigration policy
        • Mutual information mechanism for national asylum and immigration measures
        • EU format for residence permits
        • Family reunification
        • EU blue card – entry and residence of highly qualified workers (from 2023)
        • Returning illegal immigrants – common standards and procedures
        • Return border procedure regulation (RBPR)
        • Residence permit for victims of human trafficking
        • The European Union’s entry/exit system
        • The European Migration Network
        • Employment as seasonal workers
        • Immigration - the EU response
        • Integrating non-EU nationals
        • Non-EU workers – easier residence and work formalities (until 2026)
        • Non-EU nationals — rules for long-term residence
        • Non-EU nationals — entry and residence for research, studies, training, voluntary service, secondary education and au pairing
      • Illegal immigration
        • Screening of non-EU nationals at the EU’s external borders
        • EU measures to prevent the facilitation of illegal immigration
        • Financial penalties on passenger carriers
        • Expulsion decisions — mutual recognition by EU countries
        • Returning illegal immigrants – common standards and procedures
        • Return of illegal immigrants to their countries: joint flights
        • Return border procedure regulation (RBPR)
        • Stepping up cross-border cooperation – the Prüm decision
        • Immigration liaison officers’ network
        • Illegal immigration – penalties for employers
    • Relations with non-EU countries
      • Migration and development
      • EU - Turkey agreement on the readmission of persons residing without authorisation
      • Facility for Refugees in Turkey
      • Readmission agreements between the EU and certain non-EU countries
      • Frontex status agreements with non-EU countries
  • Horizontal and general matters
    • European Legislation Identifier (ELI)
    • European Case Law Identifier
    • European and international courts
  • Judicial cooperation in civil matters
    • EU involvement in efforts to unify the rules of private international law
    • Civil and commercial matters
      • The digitalisation of judicial cooperation and access to justice in cross-border civil, commercial and criminal matters
      • Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters (HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention)
      • Litigation
        • More effective rules on insolvency proceedings across EU borders
        • Court jurisdiction in legal cases involving different EU countries
        • Strengthening cooperation with Switzerland, Norway and Iceland: the Lugano Convention
        • Legal certainty in international trade for EU businesses using choice of court agreements
      • Applicable law
        • The law applicable to non-contractual obligations
        • Convention on the law applicable to contractual obligations (Rome Convention)
        • Contractual obligations in the EU - determining which national law applies
        • Civil judicial cooperation and agreements with non-EU countries
      • European procedures
        • Uncontested claims – European enforcement order
        • European small claims procedure — rules governing cross-border legal disputes
        • European order for payment procedure
        • The European Account Preservation Order for debt recovery between EU countries
      • Alternative (out-of-court) dispute resolution
        • Mediation in civil and commercial matters
    • Family law & succession law
      • Law applicable to divorce and legal separation
      • Family legal matters — negotiating agreements between EU and non-EU countries
      • Parental responsibility & protection of children (Hague Convention)
      • The digitalisation of judicial cooperation and access to justice in cross-border civil, commercial and criminal matters
      • Enhanced cooperation on matrimonial and registered partnership property issues
      • Jurisdiction and applicable law in succession matters and European Certificate of Succession
      • Maintenance obligations
      • Matrimonial and parental responsibility judgments — jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement
    • Cooperation between EU countries on civil justice
      • Simplifying the circulation of certain public documents within the EU
      • European Judicial Network — civil and commercial matters
      • European e-Justice Strategy and Action Plan 2019-2023
      • Promoting videoconferencing between EU countries in the area of justice
      • The digitalisation of judicial cooperation and access to justice in cross-border civil, commercial and criminal matters
      • Taking of evidence in civil and commercial matters (until 2022)
      • Taking of evidence in civil and commercial matters
      • e-CODEX – computerised system for the cross-border electronic exchange of data in the area of judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters
      • Justice programme (2021-2027)
      • Legal aid in civil and commercial matters
      • Transmitting judicial and extrajudicial documents between EU countries
  • Judicial cooperation in criminal matters
    • Mutual assistance in criminal matters between EU countries
    • European criminal records information system (ECRIS)
    • European criminal records information system – conviction information on third-country nationals (ECRIS-TCN)
    • Eurojust
    • Fight against organised crime: offences linked to participation in a criminal organisation
    • Faster, more efficient cross-border criminal investigations in the EU
    • Fair trial: suspects’ right to interpretation and translation in criminal proceedings
    • European Judicial Network - cooperation to combat crime
    • Exchange of information on criminal records between EU Member States
    • Better protection for victims of violence
    • Better protection for victims in criminal proceedings
    • Convention on cybercrime
    • Criminal proceedings — procedural safeguards for children who are suspected or accused of crimes
    • Criminal proceedings — Presumption of innocence and the right to be present at the trial
    • Criminal offences and penalties for the violation of EU restrictive measures
    • Compensation for victims of crime in other EU countries
    • Proceedings in criminal matters – asset recovery and confiscation
    • Procedural safeguards for vulnerable persons in criminal proceedings
    • Recommendation on procedural rights of suspects and accused people subject to pre-trial detention and on material detention conditions
    • Protecting the environment through criminal law
    • Protecting personal data that is used by police and criminal justice authorities (from 2018)
    • Promoting videoconferencing between EU countries in the area of justice
    • Right to access a lawyer in criminal and European warrant arrest proceedings
    • Stepping up cross-border cooperation – the Prüm decision
    • Strengthening victims’ rights in the EU
    • The right to legal aid in criminal proceedings
    • The establishment of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office
    • e-CODEX – computerised system for the cross-border electronic exchange of data in the area of judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters
    • Electronic evidence in criminal proceedings – production and preservation orders
    • Electronic evidence in criminal proceedings – designated establishments and legal representatives of service providers
    • Electronic evidence in criminal proceedings
    • Justice programme (2021-2027)
    • Judicial cooperation – Joint investigation teams collaboration platform
    • Internal Security Fund (2021–2027)
    • Legal aid in criminal proceedings
    • Using financial information to prevent, detect, investigate and prosecute criminal offences
    • Transfer of proceedings in criminal matters
    • Mutual recognition
      • More effective extradition procedures: European arrest warrant
      • EU mutual recognition system – prison sentences and prisoner transfers
      • European protection order — supporting crime victims EU-wide
      • Convictions in other countries count in new criminal proceedings
      • Recommendation on procedural rights of suspects and accused people subject to pre-trial detention and on material detention conditions
      • Pre-trial supervision – mutual recognition
      • Surrender procedure between EU Member States and Iceland and Norway
      • Electronic evidence in criminal proceedings – production and preservation orders
      • Jurisdiction in criminal proceedings: prevention and settlement of conflicts
      • Mutual recognition of probation measures and alternative sanctions
      • Mutual recognition of financial penalties, such as certain speeding fines
    • War crimes
      • Genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes: investigation and prosecution
      • European and international courts
      • European Genocide Network
    • Agreements – Justice & security
      • Legal certainty in international trade for EU businesses using choice of court agreements
      • EU–New Zealand agreement on the exchange of personal data
      • EU–Japan mutual legal assistance
      • EU-US agreement on personal data protection
      • Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters (HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention)
      • Convention on international interests in mobile equipment
      • Convention on cybercrime
      • Agreements on the security of classified information
      • Agreement with the United States on mutual legal assistance
      • Agreement with the United States on extradition
      • Agreement between the European Union and the United States on the transfer of financial messaging data
      • Surrender procedure between EU Member States and Iceland and Norway
  • Police and customs cooperation
    • Police cooperation
      • Simplifying the exchange of information between EU countries' police and customs
      • European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL)
      • European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol)
      • Cooperation between special intervention units
      • Police cooperation: automated search and exchange of data
      • Protecting the euro against counterfeiting – Europol
      • A safer EU: police cooperation, and crisis management
      • Stepping up cross-border cooperation – the Prüm decision
      • Terrorist kidnappings — sharing information
      • Information exchange between law enforcement authorities of Member States
      • Joint investigation teams
      • Internal Security Fund (2021–2027)
      • Freezing and confiscation of assets
    • Agreements – Customs
      • Pan-Euro-Mediterranean preferential rules of origin
      • International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System
      • International convention on the simplification and harmonisation of customs procedures
      • 1982 International Convention on the Harmonization of Frontier Controls of Goods
      • Agreement in the form of an exchange of letters between the EU and Norway on applying similar rules of origin
      • Agreement with China on cooperation and mutual assistance in customs matters
      • Agreement with Hong Kong on cooperation and mutual assistance in customs matters
      • Agreement with the Republic of Korea
      • Agreements with Canada on customs matters
      • Container security: EU–US agreements
      • Close cooperation between EU customs administrations (Naples II Convention)
      • Convention on a common transit procedure
      • Convention on the simplification of formalities in trade in goods
      • Customs Agreement with Japan
      • Customs Convention on the international transport of goods under cover of TIR carnets (TIR Convention)
      • EU–Switzerland agreement on the simplification of inspections and formalities in respect of the carriage of goods and on customs security measures
      • EU customs union with Turkey
      • EU-India customs agreement
      • EU-New Zealand cooperation and mutual administrative assistance in customs matters
  • Citizenship of the Union
    • Emergency travel document (ETD)
    • Better handling of complaints made to the Commission on countries’ application of EU law
    • Citizenship of the Union
    • Democratic rights
      • Transparency and targeting of political advertising
      • Addressing the consequences of disenfranchisement of Union citizens exercising their right to free movement
      • The right to vote and to stand as a candidate in municipal elections
      • Voting rights and eligibility in European Parliament elections
    • Free movement rights
      • Security of identity cards and residence documents
      • EU freedom of movement and residence
      • Citizens, equality, rights and values programme (2021–2027)
      • Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
    • Consular protection
      • EU consular protection: better protection for EU citizens abroad
      • EU emergency travel document
  • Fundamental rights & discrimination
    • Transparency and targeting of political advertising
    • EU strategy on the rights of the child and the European child guarantee
    • European judicial training strategy (2021–2024)
    • Citizens, equality, rights and values programme (2021–2027)
    • Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
    • Standards for equality bodies in the field of equal treatment and equal opportunities
    • Recommendations on developing and strengthening integrated child protection systems in the best interests of the child
    • Putting the Charter of Fundamental Rights into practice
    • Institutions, agencies & bodies
      • Advisory Committee on Equal Opportunities for Men and Women
      • European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
      • European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE)
    • Equality between women and men
      • Self-employment — equal treatment between men and women
      • Equal treatment in employment and occupation
      • Equal pay for equal work or work of equal value between men and women – Rules on pay transparency
      • European Union gender equality strategy
      • European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE)
      • EU accession to the Istanbul Convention
      • Advisory Committee on Equal Opportunities for Men and Women
      • Standards for equality bodies in the field of equal treatment and equal opportunities
      • Social security — equal treatment for men and women
      • Principle of equal treatment of men and women outside the employment market
      • Protecting pregnant workers and new mothers
      • Gender equality in the labour market
      • Gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges
      • Work-life balance for parents and carers
      • Preventing and combatting violence against women
        • Preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence throughout the European Union
    • Other forms of discriminations
      • Non-discrimination and equal opportunities in the European Union
      • Equal treatment irrespective of racial or ethnic origin
      • Equal treatment in employment and occupation
      • Standards for equality bodies in the field of equal treatment and equal opportunities
      • Protection at international level of the rights and freedoms of persons with disabilities
      • The Marrakesh Treaty
      • Framework Decision on combating certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia by means of criminal law
  • Fight against terrorism
    • Use of passenger records to prevent terrorism and serious crime
    • Fight against terrorism – definitions of terrorist crimes and support to victims
    • EU security union strategy
    • Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism
    • Small arms and light weapons: combating their accumulation
    • Preventing abuse of the financial system for money laundering and terrorism purposes (until 2027)
    • Preventing abuse of the financial system for money laundering and terrorism purposes (from 2027) – Member States’ mechanisms
    • Preventing abuse of the financial system for money laundering and terrorism purposes (from 2027)
    • Protecting Europe from terrorism risks
    • Stepping up cross-border cooperation – the Prüm decision
    • Marketing and use of explosive precursors (from 31 January 2021)
    • Access to and exchange of information
      • Internal Security Fund (2021–2027)
      • EU–New Zealand agreement on the exchange of personal data
      • Fight against terrorism — dissemination of content online
      • Council security rules for protecting classified information (EUCI)
      • Agreements on the security of classified information
      • Agreement between the European Union and the United States on the transfer of financial messaging data
      • Rules for access to the EU’s Visa Information System (VIS)
      • Terrorist kidnappings — sharing information
      • Information exchange and cooperation regarding terrorist offences
      • Judicial cooperation – Joint investigation teams collaboration platform
    • Prevention & protection
      • Traceability of money transfers
      • Fight against terrorism — dissemination of content online
      • Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism
      • Compensation for victims of crime in other EU countries
      • Preventing abuse of the financial system for money laundering and terrorism purposes (until 2027)
      • Preventing abuse of the financial system for money laundering and terrorism purposes (from 2027) – Member States’ mechanisms
      • Preventing abuse of the financial system for money laundering and terrorism purposes (from 2027)
      • Restrictive measures to combat terrorism
      • A safer EU: police cooperation, and crisis management
      • Information accompanying transfers of funds and certain crypto assets
      • Making critical entities more resilient
      • Using financial information to prevent, detect, investigate and prosecute criminal offences
    • Pursuit
      • More effective extradition procedures: European arrest warrant
    • Institutions and agencies
      • Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism
      • Eurojust
      • European Judicial Network - cooperation to combat crime
  • Fight against organised crime
    • Organised crime: common framework for liaison officers
    • European and international courts
    • Fight against organised crime: offences linked to participation in a criminal organisation
    • EU security union strategy
    • Combating cross-border vehicle crime
    • Smuggling of migrants by land, sea and air — UN protocol
    • Police cooperation, migration, asylum and combating crime: financial instruments
    • Peer review of EU countries’ measures to combat organised crime
    • Freezing and confiscation of proceeds of crime
    • Screening framework for foreign direct investments
    • Crime prevention
      • Using financial information to prevent, detect, investigate and prosecute criminal offences
      • European cooperation on crime prevention
      • Internal Security Fund (2021–2027)
    • Arms trafficking
      • Rules on importing and exporting firearms and ammunition
      • Firearms — combating illicit manufacture and trafficking
      • Controls on weapons purchases and possession
    • Money laundering
      • Traceability of money transfers
      • Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism
      • Combating money laundering by criminal law
      • Controls on cash entering or leaving the EU
      • Preventing abuse of the financial system for money laundering and terrorism purposes (until 2027)
      • Preventing abuse of the financial system for money laundering and terrorism purposes (from 2027) – Member States’ mechanisms
      • Preventing abuse of the financial system for money laundering and terrorism purposes (from 2027)
      • Information accompanying transfers of funds and certain crypto assets
      • Using financial information to prevent, detect, investigate and prosecute criminal offences
    • Financial crime
      • Traceability of money transfers
      • Fight against fraud to the EU’s financial interests by means of criminal law
      • Cooperation between EU countries in recovering proceeds from crime
      • Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism
      • Preventing abuse of the financial system for money laundering and terrorism purposes (until 2027)
      • Preventing abuse of the financial system for money laundering and terrorism purposes (from 2027) – Member States’ mechanisms
      • Preventing abuse of the financial system for money laundering and terrorism purposes (from 2027)
      • Using financial information to prevent, detect, investigate and prosecute criminal offences
    • Cyber crime
      • Towards a general policy on the fight against cybercrime
      • EU restrictive measures against cyber-attacks
      • EU security union strategy
      • European cybersecurity network and competence centre
      • European Cybercrime Centre at Europol
      • Cybersecurity of network and information systems
      • Attacks against information systems
      • Convention on cybercrime
      • Electronic evidence in criminal proceedings – production and preservation orders
      • Information accompanying transfers of funds and certain crypto assets
      • Internal Security Fund (2021–2027)
      • Horizontal cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements
    • Trafficking in human beings
      • 25th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
      • Fighting child sexual abuse
      • EU security union strategy
      • EU Restrictive measures in view of the situation in Libya
      • Smuggling of migrants by land, sea and air — UN protocol
      • Preventing and combating trafficking in human beings
      • Protocol against the trafficking of people
      • Residence permit for victims of human trafficking
    • Environmental crime
      • Ship-source pollution and criminal penalties
      • European Union law against environmental crime
      • Corporate sustainability due diligence
      • Protecting the environment through criminal law
      • Revised EU action plan against wildlife trafficking
      • Wildlife trafficking — EU action plan
  • Combating drugs
    • Monitoring trade in drug precursors between the EU and non-EU countries
    • European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA)
    • EU drugs strategy
    • Criminal acts and the applicable penalties — drug trafficking
    • Illicit drug trafficking — List of psychoactive substances
    • Monitoring trade in drug precursors within the European Union
  • Judicial reform & tackling corruption and organised crime
    • Communication on the fight against corruption
  • European statistics
    • Migration statistics
    • European statistics on persons and households
  • Archived summaries
    • Organised crime: strategy for the prevention and control of organised crime
    • Exchange of information between the law enforcement authorities of the Member States
    • Exchange of certain data with Interpol
    • Evaluation of the European Parliament Elections (2004)
    • Europol: European Police Office (until 31.12.2009)
    • European contract law
    • European Year of Voluntary Activities Promoting Active Citizenship (2011)
    • European border surveillance system (Eurosur)
    • European Border and Coast Guard (until December 2020)
    • Follow-up to the recommendations of the High-Level Panel on the Free Movement of Persons
    • European Asylum Support Office
    • eu-LISA: managing IT systems in the field of border and migration controls
    • European Agency for the Management of External Borders — Frontex
    • Europe for Citizens (2007-13)
    • EU internal security strategy
    • "Eurodac" system
    • Financing of civil protection measures (2007-2013)
    • European security strategy
    • European Security Research and Innovation Agenda
    • European scheme for the resettlement of refugees
    • European Refugee Fund (2008-13)
    • EU Drugs Action Plan (2013-16)
    • Fight against Terrorist Financing: exchanging information, transparency and traceability of financial transactions
    • Fight against terrorism: prevention, preparedness and response
    • Fight against organised crime and terrorism: role of Eurojust and the European Judicial Network
    • Fight against cybercrime
    • European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection
    • European Parliament Rules of Procedure
    • European Pact on Immigration and Asylum
    • European network for the protection of public figures
    • EU counter-terrorism policy
    • EU cooperation in criminal matters — personal data protection (until 2018)
    • European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA)
    • European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
    • Facilitating the issuance of short-stay visas with Russia
    • Facilitating procedures for issuing visas for those taking part in sporting events
    • Facilitating judicial cooperation in civil matters
    • External Borders Fund (2007-13)
    • EU blue card – entry and residence of highly qualified workers (until 2023)
    • EU security agenda
    • EU agency for law enforcement cooperation — Europol
    • EU rules on terrorist offences and related penalties
    • EU action plan on chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear security
    • Experts Group on Trafficking in Human Beings
    • European external border surveillance system (EUROSUR)
    • European evidence warrant (EEW)
    • European e-Justice Strategy
    • European e-justice strategy
    • Estonia
    • Exchange of information to combat counterfeit travel documents
    • Exchange of information on movements of groups
    • Exchange of information on drugs
    • European Disability Strategy (2010-2020)
    • Admission and residence of researchers from non-EU countries
    • Court orders freezing criminal assets or evidence — recognition abroad
    • Counter-terrorism strategy
    • Better enforcement of monetary claims: the attachment of bank accounts
    • Addressing the factors contributing to violent radicalisation
    • Corporate and financial malpractice
    • Active European citizenship (2004-2006)
    • Actions and tools for integration
    • Action to prevent violence against children, young people and women: the DAPHNE II programme (2004-08)
    • Action to combat violence against children, young persons and women: the Daphne programme
    • Action to combat illicit trade in light weapons
    • Action programme: Customs 2007 (2003-2007)
    • Cooperation with the African Centre for Study and Research on Terrorism
    • Common framework for the integration of non-EU nationals
    • Customs 2013 (2008-2013)
    • Cooperation with Non-EU Member Countries in the areas of migration and asylum
    • Cooperation of individuals to combat organised crime
    • Cooperation between customs authorities and business organisations of the Member States
    • Combating violence towards children, adolescents and women: Daphne III programme (2007-2013)
    • Combating trafficking in human beings, the sexual exploitation of children and child pornography
    • Combating trafficking in human beings
    • Combating the sexual exploitation of children and child pornography
    • Combating terrorist financing: enhancement of national-level coordination and greater transparency of the non-profit sector.
    • Combating child sex tourism
    • Combating child pornography on the Internet
    • Convention on extradition between Member States
    • Convention on Driving Disqualifications
    • Approximation of the laws of the Member States (2)
    • Approximation of the laws of the Member States (1)
    • Approval of explosives intended for civilian use
    • Applying the codecision procedure to maintenance obligations
    • Applicable law and jurisdiction in matrimonial matters (Proposal for a Regulation)
    • Applicable law and jurisdiction in divorce matters (Green Paper)
    • Closer practical cooperation
    • Contribution to the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
    • Civil Protection Mechanism
    • Civil Justice specific programme (2007-2013)
    • Airport transit arrangements
    • Circular migration and mobility partnerships 
    • Choice of court agreements between parties to international transactions
    • Agreements with the countries of the Western Balkans on the facilitation of the issuance of visas
    • Croatia – Justice and security
    • Conflict of laws in matters concerning matrimonial property regimes (Green Paper)
    • Conditions governing eligibility for refugee status or international protection
    • Agreement with Pakistan on readmission
    • Cyprus
    • Cybersecurity of network and information systems
    • Conclusion of the United Nations Convention against organised crime
    • Comprehensive strategy for combating organised crime
    • Agreement on the processing and transfer of passenger name record data by air carriers to the United States Department of Homeland Security (2007 PNR Agreement)
    • Agreement on readmission with Russia
    • Criminal convictions: disqualifications
    • Critical infrastructure protection
    • Criminal proceedings: conflicts of jurisdiction and the ne bis in idem principle (Green Paper)
    • Criminal Justice specific programme (2007-13)
    • Bulgaria
    • Agreement between the European Union and the United States on the security of classified information
    • Crime prevention in the EU
    • “Crime does not pay”
    • Community programme for employment and solidarity - PROGRESS (2007-2013)
    • Building a stronger and more secure digital Europe
    • Border-free travel – new EU control system (SIS II)
    • Standing Committee on operational cooperation on internal security
    • Specific Programme: Prevention, preparedness and consequence management of terrorism (2007-2013)
    • Specific programme: Preventing and combating crime (2007-2013)
    • Slovenia
    • Programme of exchanges, training and cooperation for persons responsible for action to combat organised crime (Falcone)
    • Programme of Community action in the field of public health (2003-2008)
    • Recognition of decisions in criminal matters: strengthening mutual trust
    • Recognition and execution of confiscation orders
    • Preventive alert against emergencies
    • Prevention and reduction of risks associated with drug dependence
    • Prevention and control of hooliganism
    • Preventing money laundering by means of the financial system
    • Readmission agreements with the countries of the western Balkans
    • Readmission agreements with Macao and Hong Kong
    • Readmission agreement with Sri Lanka
    • Rapid border intervention teams (RABIT)
    • Policy priorities in the fight against illegal immigration
    • Policy plan on legal migration
    • Policy plan on asylum
    • Police/customs agreements in the fight against drugs
    • Poland
    • Plan on best practices, standards and procedures
    • Penal framework for preventing the facilitation of illegal immigration
    • Protecting critical infrastructure
    • Protecting children in the digital world
    • Promotion and protection of the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities at international level
    • Schengen Borders Code
    • Reports on citizenship of the Union: EU progress on removing hurdles to the exercise of rights
    • Report on preparedness for possible emergencies (2002)
    • Safer Internet programme 2009-13
    • Reinforcing the management of the EU's southern maritime borders
    • Regional Protection Programmes
    • Romania
    • Robert Schuman project (1998-2000)
    • Rights of victims of crime (Proposal)
    • Right to information in criminal proceedings
    • Right of access to a lawyer (Proposal)
    • Return Fund (2008-13)
    • A comprehensive European migration policy
    • A common immigration policy for Europe
    • Action Plan to Combat Drugs (2000-2004)
    • Action plan to combat drugs (1995-1999)
    • Action plan on unaccompanied minors (2010-14)
    • Action plan on the Stockholm Programme
    • Action plan against racism
    • Access of vehicle registration services to SIS II
    • A new dimension for European judicial training
    • A global approach to PNR data transfers
    • A framework strategy for non-discrimination and equal opportunities for all
    • Strategic concept on tackling organised crime
    • STOP II
    • Stepping up the fight against terrorism
    • The Czech Republic
    • The prevention of and fight against organised crime in the financial sector
    • The implementation of measures to combat child sex tourism
    • The Hague Programme: 10 priorities for the next five years
    • The fight against terrorism: preparedness and management of the consequences
    • The fight against bioterrorism (communication)
    • The external dimension of the area of freedom, security and justice
    • Targeting criteria for controls and collection of customs and police information
    • The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia – Justice and security
    • The European Police College (CEPOL)
    • The European Ombudsman
    • Surrender procedure between EU countries and Iceland and Norway
    • Succession and wills (Green Paper)
    • Stronger control measures for the synthetic drug BZP
    • Strengthening the Schengen area
    • The role of customs in the integrated management of external borders
    • The role of civil society in drugs policy in the European Union
    • The rights of crime victims
    • The principle of equal treatment between persons
    • Strengthening the Global Approach to Migration
    • Strengthening the commitment to equality between women and men: a women’s charter
    • Strategy for the evolution of the Customs Union
    • Strategy for the Customs Union
    • Strategy for gender equality in development policy
    • The EU drugs strategy (2005-12)
    • The EU drugs action plan (2009-12)
    • The EU drugs action plan (2005-08)
    • Diplomatic and consular protection of Union citizens in third countries (Green Paper)
    • Diplomatic and consular protection
    • Ensuring the consistent implementation of rights
    • Dublin II Regulation
    • 'Drug prevention and information' programme (2007-2013)
    • Drug precursors: internal aspects
    • Drug precursors: external aspects
    • Enhancing the security of explosives
    • Enhancing police and customs cooperation in the European Union
    • Enforcing judgments: the transparency of debtors' assets
    • Entry of refugees into the EU and enhancing protection for them in the countries of first asylum
    • Dismantling the obstacles to EU citizens’ rights
    • Hippocrates
    • Framework programme on solidarity and management of migration flows for the period 2007-2013
    • Framework programme concerning police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters (AGIS)
    • Justice Programme (2014-2020)
    • Incentive and exchange programme for persons responsible for combating trade in human beings and the sexual exploitation of children (STOP)
    • Framework for the exchange of liaison magistrates
    • Justice Forum
    • Jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters (Brussels I)
    • Jurisdiction in criminal matters: first and third pillar
    • Judicial training in the European Union
    • Judicial reform, fight against corruption and organised crime: Bulgaria’s progress
    • Judicial reform and anti-corruption work: Romania’s progress
    • Joint EU resettlement programme
    • Improved effectiveness, enhanced interoperability and synergies between European databases
    • Local consular cooperation regarding visas
    • Lithuania
    • Joint action to combat racism and xenophobia
    • IT agency for the area of freedom, security and justice
    • Marketing and use of explosives precursors
    • Malta
    • Group of Experts on Trafficking in Human Beings
    • Grotius II - Criminal
    • Grotius
    • Green Paper: The problems confronting the cross-border litigant
    • Links between legal and illegal immigration
    • Limitations on the admission of third-country nationals for the purpose of pursuing activities as self-employed persons
    • Green Paper on the presumption of innocence
    • Green Paper on mutual recognition of non-custodial pre-trial supervision measures
    • International protection – emergency help for Italy and Greece
    • Green Paper on maintenance obligations
    • Green Paper on criminal proceedings
    • Limitations on the admission of third-country nationals for employment
    • Immigration liaison officers’ network
    • Identification and confiscation of instrumentalities and proceeds from crime
    • Making citizenship work: programmes for Youth, Culture, Audiovisual and Civic Participation
    • Matrimonial and parental judgments: jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement (Brussels IIa)
    • Integration of concerns related to migration within the external policy
    • Integration Fund (2007-13)
    • Iceland – Justice and security
    • Gender balance within the committees and expert groups set up by the Commission
    • Insolvency proceedings
    • Future common European asylum system
    • Fundamental rights and citizenship (2007-13)
    • Hungary
    • From the Schengen Information System (SIS 1+) to the second generation Schengen Information System (SIS II)
    • Freezing funds: list of terrorists and terrorist groups
    • Lawful transmission of samples of controlled substances
    • Latvia
    • Information on the payer accompanying transfers of funds
    • Information management in the area of freedom, security and justice
    • Information exchange, risk assessment and control of new psychoactive substances
    • Visa requirements for non-EU nationals
    • Turkey – Justice and security
    • Transmission of personal data by Europol
    • Transmission of judicial and extrajudicial documents between EU countries (until 2022)
    • Transit Kaliningrad - Russian mainland: proposals and implementation
    • Trafficking in women for the purpose of sexual exploitation
    • Towards a Strategy on the Rights of the Child
    • Towards a comprehensive European migration policy
    • The Stockholm Programme
    • Democratic control over Europol
    • Defining the facilitation of illegal immigration
    • Decision setting up Eurojust
    • Developing a comprehensive EU strategy to measure crime and criminal justice
    • Detection technologies in the work of law enforcement, customs and other security services
    • Detecting forged documents
    • Security of explosives
    • Secretariat for the joint supervisory data-protection bodies
    • Second generation Schengen Information System (SIS II) – former 3rd pillar decision
    • Second generation Schengen Information System (SIS II)
    • Simplified extradition procedure between Member States
    • Search for missing or sexually exploited children
    • Service of documents in civil or commercial matters
    • Slovakia
    • Monitoring scheme for the EU’s border-free area
    • Money laundering: prevention through customs cooperation
    • Minimum standards on the reception of applicants for asylum in Member States
    • Minimum standards for procedures for granting and withdrawing refugee status
    • Minimum guarantees for asylum procedures
    • Migration: Global Approach to the Eastern and South-Eastern regions of the EU
    • Organised crime: crime prevention in the European Union
    • Organised crime: contact points to combat high-tech crime
    • Operational investigation methods
    • Mechanism for collective evaluation of the application by applicant countries of the European Union acquis
    • Next steps in border management in the EU
    • National programmes for the reduction of drug demand: second report
    • National programmes for the reduction of drug demand: first report
    • Mutual recognition of pre-trial supervision measures
    • Oisin Programme (1997-2000)
    • OISIN II Programme
    • New measures to combat trafficking in women
    • New functions for the Schengen Information System in the fight against terrorism
    • Overhaul for EU Solidarity Fund