Justice, freedom and security

The European Union's area of freedom, security and justice was created to ensure the free movement of persons and to offer a high level of protection to citizens. It covers policy areas that range from the management of the European Union’s external borders to judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters and police cooperation. It also includes asylum and immigration policies and the fight against crime (terrorism, organised crime, cybercrime, sexual exploitation of children, trafficking in human beings, illegal drugs, etc.).

The creation of the area of freedom, security and justice is based on the Tampere (1999-04), Hague (2004-09) and Stockholm (2010-14) programmes. It derives from Title V of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which regulates the “Area of freedom, security and justice”.

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