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
      • The Schengen area
      • EU digital COVID certificate
      • Schengen evaluation and monitoring
      • Rules on crossing EU borders
      • Security of identity cards and residence documents
    • Schengen information system II
      • Interoperability between EU information systems in the field of freedom, security and justice
      • A strengthened Schengen information system
      • European Union Agency for the Operational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (eu-LISA)
    • Penetrating external borders
      • Financial Support for Border Management and Visa Policy
      • EU instrument for financial support for customs control equipment (2021–2027)
      • Controlling the EU external maritime borders and saving immigrants’ lives in operations at sea
      • Schengen evaluation and monitoring
      • European Border and Coast Guard
      • Eurodac: European system for the comparison of fingerprints of asylum applicants (until 2026)
      • Local border traffic at external land borders
      • Obligation of air carriers to communicate passenger data
      • Stepping up cross-border cooperation – the Prüm decision
      • Frontex status agreements with non-EU countries
      • Financial support for EU’s external borders and the common visa policy: Internal Security Fund
    • Visas
      • Uniform format for visas issued to non-EU nationals
      • EU instrument for financial support for customs control equipment (2021–2027)
      • 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)
      • European Union Agency for the Operational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (eu-LISA)
      • The European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS)
      • Integration of biometric features in passports and travel documents
      • Smart borders: European Union entry/exit system
      • 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)
      • Visa waiver agreements
      • Visa requirements for non-EU nationals
      • Visa facilitation
      • Visa Code
      • VIS regulation
    • Asylum
      • Living conditions for asylum seekers – EU rules
      • EU asylum policy: EU Member State responsible for examining applications
      • EP resolution on the situation of unaccompanied minors in the EU
      • Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (2021-2027)
      • Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund
      • Refugees and stateless persons — common standards for qualification
      • Eurodac: European system for the comparison of fingerprints of asylum applicants (until 2026)
      • European Union asylum procedures
      • European Union Agency for the Operational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (eu-LISA)
      • Temporary protection if there is a mass influx of displaced people
    • Immigration and rights of nationals of non-EU countries
      • The protection of children in migration
      • Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (2021-2027)
      • Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund
      • Recognition of qualifications for Ukrainian refugees
      • Immigration policy
        • Family reunification
        • EU format for residence permits
        • EU blue card – entry and residence of highly qualified workers (from 2023)
        • Employment as seasonal workers
        • Returning illegal immigrants – common standards and procedures
        • Residence permit for victims of human trafficking
        • The European Migration Network
        • Immigration - the EU response
        • Integrating non-EU nationals
        • 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
        • Mutual information mechanism for national asylum and immigration measures
        • Smart borders: European Union entry/exit system
      • Illegal immigration
        • Expulsion decisions — mutual recognition by EU countries
        • 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
        • Immigration liaison officers’ network
        • Illegal immigration – penalties for employers
        • Stepping up cross-border cooperation – the Prüm decision
        • Financial penalties on passenger carriers
    • Relations with non-EU countries
      • Facility for Refugees in Turkey
      • Readmission agreements between the EU and certain non-EU countries
      • EU - Turkey agreement on the readmission of persons residing without authorisation
      • Migration and development
      • 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
      • Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters (HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention)
      • Litigation
        • Strengthening cooperation with Switzerland, Norway and Iceland: the Lugano Convention
        • Court jurisdiction in legal cases involving different EU countries
        • Legal certainty in international trade for EU businesses using choice of court agreements
        • More effective rules on insolvency proceedings across EU borders
      • 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
      • Family legal matters — negotiating agreements between EU and non-EU countries
      • Enhanced cooperation on matrimonial and registered partnership property issues
      • Jurisdiction and applicable law in succession matters and European Certificate of Succession
      • Matrimonial and parental responsibility judgments — jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement
      • Law applicable to divorce and legal separation
      • Maintenance obligations
      • Parental responsibility & protection of children (Hague Convention)
    • Cooperation between EU countries on civil justice
      • Justice programme (2021-2027)
      • e-CODEX – computerised system for the cross-border electronic exchange of data in the area of judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters
      • Promoting videoconferencing between EU countries in the area of 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
      • Transmitting judicial and extrajudicial documents between EU countries
      • Taking of evidence in civil and commercial matters (until 2022)
      • Taking of evidence in civil and commercial matters
      • Legal aid in civil and commercial matters
  • Judicial cooperation in criminal matters
    • Using financial information for preventing, detecting, investigating and prosecuting criminal offences
    • 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
    • Compensation for victims of crime in other EU countries
    • 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
    • Better protection for victims of violence
    • Better protection for victims 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
    • Recommendation on procedural rights of suspects and accused people subject to pre-trial detention and on material detention conditions
    • Right to access a lawyer in criminal and European warrant arrest proceedings
    • European Judicial Network - cooperation to combat crime
    • Exchange of information on criminal records between EU Member States
    • European criminal records information system (ECRIS)
    • European criminal records information system – conviction information on third-country nationals (ECRIS-TCN)
    • Eurojust
    • The establishment of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office
    • The right to legal aid in criminal proceedings
    • Internal Security Fund (2021–2027)
    • Legal aid in criminal proceedings
    • Justice programme (2021-2027)
    • Judicial cooperation – Joint investigation teams collaboration platform
    • Mutual assistance in criminal matters between EU countries
    • Procedural safeguards for vulnerable persons in criminal proceedings
    • Stepping up cross-border cooperation – the Prüm decision
    • Strengthening victims’ rights in the EU
    • 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
    • Mutual recognition
      • Surrender procedure between EU Member States and Iceland and Norway
      • EU mutual recognition system – prison sentences and prisoner transfers
      • Electronic evidence in criminal proceedings – production and preservation orders
      • 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
      • European protection order — supporting crime victims EU-wide
      • 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
      • More effective extradition procedures: European arrest warrant
      • Pre-trial supervision – mutual recognition
    • War crimes
      • Genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes: investigation and prosecution
      • European and international courts
      • European Genocide Network
    • Agreements – Justice & security
      • Surrender procedure between EU Member States and Iceland and Norway
      • EU–Japan mutual legal assistance
      • EU–New Zealand agreement on the exchange of personal data
      • 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
      • EU-US agreement on personal data protection
      • Legal certainty in international trade for EU businesses using choice of court agreements
  • Police and customs cooperation
    • Police cooperation
      • Freezing and confiscation of assets
      • Cooperation between special intervention units
      • A safer EU: police cooperation, and crisis management
      • Protecting the euro against counterfeiting – Europol
      • 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)
      • Terrorist kidnappings — sharing information
      • Internal Security Fund (2021–2027)
      • Information exchange between law enforcement authorities of Member States
      • Joint investigation teams
      • Stepping up cross-border cooperation – the Prüm decision
    • 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
      • EU–Switzerland agreement on the simplification of inspections and formalities in respect of the carriage of goods and on customs security measures
      • 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
      • Convention on a common transit procedure
      • Convention on the simplification of formalities in trade in goods
      • Close cooperation between EU customs administrations (Naples II Convention)
      • Customs Agreement with Japan
      • Customs Convention on the international transport of goods under cover of TIR carnets (TIR Convention)
      • EU-New Zealand cooperation and mutual administrative assistance in customs matters
      • EU customs union with Turkey
      • EU-India customs agreement
  • Citizenship of the Union
    • Citizenship of the Union
    • Emergency travel document (ETD)
    • Better handling of complaints made to the Commission on countries’ application of EU law
    • Democratic rights
      • Voting rights and eligibility in European Parliament elections
      • 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
    • 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
    • European judicial training strategy (2021–2024)
    • Citizens, equality, rights and values programme (2021–2027)
    • Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
    • Recommendations on developing and strengthening integrated child protection systems in the best interests of the child
    • Putting the Charter of Fundamental Rights into practice
    • EU strategy on the rights of the child and the European child guarantee
    • Institutions, agencies & bodies
      • European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE)
      • Advisory Committee on Equal Opportunities for Men and Women
      • European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
    • Equality between women and men
      • Work-life balance for parents and carers
      • EU accession to the Istanbul Convention
      • Equal treatment in employment and occupation
      • Equal pay for equal work or work of equal value between men and women – Rules on pay transparency
      • Advisory Committee on Equal Opportunities for Men and Women
      • Protecting pregnant workers and new mothers
      • Self-employment — equal treatment between men and women
      • European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE)
      • European Union gender equality strategy
      • Principle of equal treatment of men and women outside the employment market
      • Social security — equal treatment for men and women
      • Gender equality in the labour market
      • Gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges
    • Other forms of discriminations
      • Framework Decision on combating certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia by means of criminal law
      • Equal treatment irrespective of racial or ethnic origin
      • Equal treatment in employment and occupation
      • Protection at international level of the rights and freedoms of persons with disabilities
      • The Marrakesh Treaty
      • Non-discrimination and equal opportunities in the European Union
  • Fight against terrorism
    • Use of passenger records to prevent terrorism and serious crime
    • Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism
    • Protecting Europe from terrorism risks
    • Marketing and use of explosive precursors (from 31 January 2021)
    • Preventing abuse of the financial system for money laundering and terrorism purposes (until 2027)
    • Stepping up cross-border cooperation – the Prüm decision
    • Small arms and light weapons: combating their accumulation
    • EU security union strategy
    • Fight against terrorism – definitions of terrorist crimes and support to victims
    • Access to and exchange of information
      • Fight against terrorism — dissemination of content online
      • EU–New Zealand agreement on the exchange of personal data
      • 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
      • Internal Security Fund (2021–2027)
      • Information exchange and cooperation regarding terrorist offences
      • Judicial cooperation – Joint investigation teams collaboration platform
    • Prevention & protection
      • Using financial information for preventing, detecting, investigating and prosecuting criminal offences
      • Compensation for victims of crime in other EU countries
      • A safer EU: police cooperation, and crisis management
      • Protecting critical infrastructure
      • Restrictive measures to combat terrorism
      • Traceability of money transfers
      • Information accompanying transfers of funds and certain crypto assets
      • Making critical entities more resilient
      • Preventing abuse of the financial system for money laundering and terrorism purposes (until 2027)
      • Fight against terrorism — dissemination of content online
    • Pursuit
      • More effective extradition procedures: European arrest warrant
    • Institutions and agencies
      • Eurojust
      • European Judicial Network - cooperation to combat crime
  • Fight against organised crime
    • Fight against organised crime: offences linked to participation in a criminal organisation
    • Combating cross-border vehicle crime
    • Screening framework for foreign direct investments
    • European and international courts
    • Organised crime: common framework for liaison officers
    • Police cooperation, migration, asylum and combating crime: financial instruments
    • Peer review of EU countries’ measures to combat organised crime
    • Smuggling of migrants by land, sea and air — UN protocol
    • EU security union strategy
    • Freezing and confiscation of proceeds of crime
    • Crime prevention
      • Using financial information for preventing, detecting, investigating and prosecuting criminal offences
      • European cooperation on crime prevention
      • Internal Security Fund (2021–2027)
    • Arms trafficking
      • Firearms — combating illicit manufacture and trafficking
      • Controls on weapons purchases and possession
    • Money laundering
      • Using financial information for preventing, detecting, investigating and prosecuting criminal offences
      • Combating money laundering by criminal law
      • Controls on cash entering or leaving the EU
      • Traceability of money transfers
      • Information accompanying transfers of funds and certain crypto assets
      • Preventing abuse of the financial system for money laundering and terrorism purposes (until 2027)
    • Financial crime
      • Using financial information for preventing, detecting, investigating and prosecuting criminal offences
      • Cooperation between EU countries in recovering proceeds from crime
      • Traceability of money transfers
      • Preventing abuse of the financial system for money laundering and terrorism purposes (until 2027)
      • Fight against fraud to the EU’s financial interests by means of criminal law
    • Cyber crime
      • EU security union strategy
      • Electronic evidence in criminal proceedings – production and preservation orders
      • Cybersecurity of network and information systems (2022)
      • Cybersecurity of network and information systems
      • Convention on cybercrime
      • Attacks against information systems
      • European cybersecurity network and competence centre
      • European Cybercrime Centre at Europol
      • Towards a general policy on the fight against cybercrime
      • Internal Security Fund (2021–2027)
      • Information accompanying transfers of funds and certain crypto assets
      • EU restrictive measures against cyber-attacks
    • Trafficking in human beings
      • Fighting child sexual abuse
      • 25th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
      • Residence permit for victims of human trafficking
      • Protocol against the trafficking of people
      • Preventing and combating trafficking in human beings
      • Smuggling of migrants by land, sea and air — UN protocol
      • EU Restrictive measures in view of the situation in Libya
      • EU security union strategy
    • Environmental crime
      • Wildlife trafficking — EU action plan
      • Ship-source pollution and criminal penalties
      • European Union law against environmental crime
  • Combating drugs
    • Monitoring trade in drug precursors between the EU and non-EU countries
    • EU drugs strategy
    • Criminal acts and the applicable penalties — drug trafficking
    • European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
    • European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA)
    • Illicit drug trafficking — List of psychoactive substances
    • Monitoring trade in drug precursors within the European Union
  • European statistics
    • Migration statistics
    • European statistics on persons and households
  • Archived summaries
    • Turkey – Justice and security
    • Enforcing judgments: the transparency of debtors' assets
    • Enhancing the security of explosives
    • Enhancing police and customs cooperation in the European Union
    • EU internal security strategy
    • EU Drugs Action Plan (2013-16)
    • EU counter-terrorism policy
    • EU cooperation in criminal matters — personal data protection (until 2018)
    • EU blue card – entry and residence of highly qualified workers (until 2023)
    • 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
    • eu-LISA: managing IT systems in the field of border and migration controls
    • Dublin II Regulation
    • 'Drug prevention and information' programme (2007-2013)
    • Drug precursors: internal aspects
    • Drug precursors: external aspects
    • Dismantling the obstacles to EU citizens’ rights
    • Diplomatic and consular protection of Union citizens in third countries (Green Paper)
    • Diplomatic and consular protection
    • 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
    • Democratic control over Europol
    • Defining the facilitation of illegal immigration
    • Decision setting up Eurojust
    • Cyprus
    • Customs 2013 (2008-2013)
    • Croatia – Justice and security
    • 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
    • Corporate and financial malpractice
    • Conflict of laws in matters concerning matrimonial property regimes (Green Paper)
    • 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.
    • Cooperation with the African Centre for Study and Research on Terrorism
    • Conditions governing eligibility for refugee status or international protection
    • Conclusion of the United Nations Convention against organised crime
    • Comprehensive strategy for combating organised crime
    • Combating child sex tourism
    • Combating child pornography on the Internet
    • Cooperation with Non-EU Member Countries in the areas of migration and asylum
    • Cooperation of individuals to combat organised crime
    • Community programme for employment and solidarity - PROGRESS (2007-2013)
    • Closer practical cooperation
    • Cooperation between customs authorities and business organisations of the Member States
    • Convention on extradition between Member States
    • Convention on Driving Disqualifications
    • Contribution to the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
    • Critical infrastructure protection
    • Criminal proceedings: conflicts of jurisdiction and the ne bis in idem principle (Green Paper)
    • Criminal Justice specific programme (2007-13)
    • Criminal convictions: disqualifications
    • Crime prevention in the EU
    • “Crime does not pay”
    • Court orders freezing criminal assets or evidence — recognition abroad
    • Counter-terrorism strategy
    • Common framework for the integration of non-EU nationals
    • Bulgaria
    • Building a stronger and more secure digital Europe
    • Border-free travel – new EU control system (SIS II)
    • Agreements with the countries of the Western Balkans on the facilitation of the issuance of visas
    • Agreement with Pakistan on readmission
    • 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
    • Better enforcement of monetary claims: the attachment of bank accounts
    • Agreement between the European Union and the United States on the security of classified information
    • Civil Protection Mechanism
    • Civil Justice specific programme (2007-2013)
    • Admission and residence of researchers from non-EU countries
    • Addressing the factors contributing to violent radicalisation
    • Active European citizenship (2004-2006)
    • 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)
    • 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)
    • Action Plan to Combat Drugs (2000-2004)
    • Action plan to combat drugs (1995-1999)
    • Circular migration and mobility partnerships 
    • Choice of court agreements between parties to international transactions
    • Airport transit arrangements
    • 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
    • Action plan on unaccompanied minors (2010-14)
    • Action plan on the Stockholm Programme
    • A comprehensive European migration policy
    • A common immigration policy for Europe
    • Action plan against racism
    • Schengen Borders Code
    • Safer Internet programme 2009-13
    • Protecting children in the digital world
    • Reinforcing the management of the EU's southern maritime borders
    • Promotion and protection of the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities at international level
    • Regional Protection Programmes
    • 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)
    • Romania
    • Robert Schuman project (1998-2000)
    • Service of documents in civil or commercial matters
    • Recognition of decisions in criminal matters: strengthening mutual trust
    • Recognition and execution of confiscation orders
    • Rights of victims of crime (Proposal)
    • Readmission agreements with the countries of the western Balkans
    • Readmission agreements with Macao and Hong Kong
    • Readmission agreement with Sri Lanka
    • Simplified extradition procedure between Member States
    • Right to information in criminal proceedings
    • Right of access to a lawyer (Proposal)
    • Rapid border intervention teams (RABIT)
    • Security of explosives
    • Secretariat for the joint supervisory data-protection bodies
    • Return Fund (2008-13)
    • Second generation Schengen Information System (SIS II) – former 3rd pillar decision
    • Second generation Schengen Information System (SIS II)
    • Search for missing or sexually exploited children
    • Reports on citizenship of the Union: EU progress on removing hurdles to the exercise of rights
    • Report on preparedness for possible emergencies (2002)
    • European border surveillance system (Eurosur)
    • European Border and Coast Guard (until December 2020)
    • European security strategy
    • European Security Research and Innovation Agenda
    • European scheme for the resettlement of refugees
    • European Asylum Support Office
    • 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)
    • 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
    • European e-Justice Strategy
    • European e-justice strategy
    • European Disability Strategy (2010-2020)
    • European Agency for the Management of External Borders — Frontex
    • Europe for Citizens (2007-13)
    • Evaluation of the European Parliament Elections (2004)
    • Europol: European Police Office (until 31.12.2009)
    • European Year of Voluntary Activities Promoting Active Citizenship (2011)
    • "Eurodac" system
    • Experts Group on Trafficking in Human Beings
    • European contract law
    • 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
    • The European Police College (CEPOL)
    • The European Ombudsman
    • Towards a Strategy on the Rights of the Child
    • 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
    • Trafficking in women for the purpose of sexual exploitation
    • Towards a comprehensive European migration policy
    • The EU drugs strategy (2005-12)
    • The EU drugs action plan (2009-12)
    • The EU drugs action plan (2005-08)
    • The principle of equal treatment between persons
    • The prevention of and fight against organised crime in the financial sector
    • The Czech Republic
    • Transmission of personal data by Europol
    • Transmission of judicial and extrajudicial documents between EU countries (until 2022)
    • Transit Kaliningrad - Russian mainland: proposals and implementation
    • The Stockholm Programme
    • Targeting criteria for controls and collection of customs and police information
    • 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
    • Improved effectiveness, enhanced interoperability and synergies between European databases
    • Immigration liaison officers’ network
    • Identification and confiscation of instrumentalities and proceeds from crime
    • Iceland – Justice and security
    • Hungary
    • Integration of concerns related to migration within the external policy
    • Integration Fund (2007-13)
    • Hippocrates
    • International protection – emergency help for Italy and Greece
    • Insolvency proceedings
    • Information on the payer accompanying transfers of funds
    • Information management in the area of freedom, security and justice
    • Group of Experts on Trafficking in Human Beings
    • Grotius II - Criminal
    • Grotius
    • Green Paper: The problems confronting the cross-border litigant
    • Information exchange, risk assessment and control of new psychoactive substances
    • Incentive and exchange programme for persons responsible for combating trade in human beings and the sexual exploitation of children (STOP)
    • Local consular cooperation regarding visas
    • Lithuania
    • Overhaul for EU Solidarity Fund
    • 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
    • Links between legal and illegal immigration
    • Limitations on the admission of third-country nationals for the purpose of pursuing activities as self-employed persons
    • Operational investigation methods
    • Limitations on the admission of third-country nationals for employment
    • Oisin Programme (1997-2000)
    • OISIN II Programme
    • 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
    • Joint action to combat racism and xenophobia
    • Next steps in border management in the EU
    • IT agency for the area of freedom, security and justice
    • New measures to combat trafficking in women
    • New functions for the Schengen Information System in the fight against terrorism
    • 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
    • Mechanism for collective evaluation of the application by applicant countries of the European Union acquis
    • Matrimonial and parental judgments: jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement (Brussels IIa)
    • Plan on best practices, standards and procedures
    • Marketing and use of explosives precursors
    • Lawful transmission of samples of controlled substances
    • Latvia
    • 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
    • Monitoring scheme for the EU’s border-free area
    • Money laundering: prevention through customs cooperation
    • Penal framework for preventing the facilitation of illegal immigration
    • Minimum standards on the reception of applicants for asylum in Member States
    • Minimum standards for procedures for granting and withdrawing refugee status
    • Malta
    • Minimum guarantees for asylum procedures
    • Migration: Global Approach to the Eastern and South-Eastern regions of the EU
    • Making citizenship work: programmes for Youth, Culture, Audiovisual and Civic Participation
    • 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
    • Strategic concept on tackling organised crime
    • STOP II
    • Stepping up the fight against terrorism
    • 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
    • Slovakia
    • Visa requirements for non-EU nationals
    • Fundamental rights and citizenship (2007-13)
    • Future common European asylum system
    • Gender balance within the committees and expert groups set up by the Commission
    • External Borders Fund (2007-13)
    • Facilitating judicial cooperation in civil matters
    • Facilitating procedures for issuing visas for those taking part in sporting events
    • Facilitating the issuance of short-stay visas with Russia
    • Fight against cybercrime
    • Fight against organised crime and terrorism: role of Eurojust and the European Judicial Network
    • Fight against terrorism: prevention, preparedness and response
    • Fight against Terrorist Financing: exchanging information, transparency and traceability of financial transactions
    • Green Paper on criminal proceedings
    • Green Paper on maintenance obligations
    • Financing of civil protection measures (2007-2013)
    • Green Paper on mutual recognition of non-custodial pre-trial supervision measures
    • Green Paper on the presumption of innocence
    • Follow-up to the recommendations of the High-Level Panel on the Free Movement of Persons
    • Framework for the exchange of liaison magistrates
    • Framework programme concerning police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters (AGIS)
    • Framework programme on solidarity and management of migration flows for the period 2007-2013
    • Freezing funds: list of terrorists and terrorist groups
    • From the Schengen Information System (SIS 1+) to the second generation Schengen Information System (SIS II)
    • EU rules on terrorist offences and related penalties
    • EU security agenda
    • Strategy for gender equality in development policy
    • Strategy for the Customs Union
    • Strategy for the evolution of the Customs Union
    • Strengthening the commitment to equality between women and men: a women’s charter
    • Strengthening the Global Approach to Migration
    • Strengthening the Schengen area
    • Stronger control measures for the synthetic drug BZP
    • Succession and wills (Green Paper)
    • Surrender procedure between EU countries and Iceland and Norway