EU Legislation
Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions – Building trust in EU-wide justice A new dimension to European judicial training
The Commission aims to ensure that half of legal practitioners have participated in training on European Union (EU) law by 2020. The implementation of this objective will be based on actions of the Member States, national and European-level partners and the Commission.
National laws and European law coexist within the European Union (EU). Legal practitioners must have sufficient knowledge...
Directive 2011/36/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2011 on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims, and replacing Council Framework Decision 2002/629/JHA.
This Directive lays down minimum common rules for determining offences of trafficking in human beings and punishing offenders. It also provides for measures to better prevent this phenomenon and...
Directive 2010/64/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 October 2010 on the right to interpretation and translation in criminal proceedings
Agreement was reached on a general approach at the Justice Council of 23 October 2009, but there was not enough time for adoption before 1 December 2009, date of entry into force of the Lisbon...
Agreement between the European Union and Iceland and Norway on the application of certain provisions of Council Decision 2008/615/JHA on the stepping up of cross-border cooperation, particularly in combating terrorism and cross-border crime and Council De
To improve police and judicial cooperation between the Member States of the European Union and Iceland and Norway, without prejudice to the rules protecting individual freedom.
In order to...
Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council – The EU Counter-Terrorism Policy: main achievements and future challenges
The communication presents the main European Union (EU) level legislative and policy developments, as well as some of the future challenges, in the field of counter-terrorism. It forms a...
Agreement between the European Union and the United States of America on the processing and transfer of Financial Messaging Data from the European Union to the United States for purposes of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program
The objective of this instrument was to make sure that designated providers of international financial payment messaging services [in reality, the agreement is primarily intended to cover the...
Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council – Delivering an area of freedom, security and justice for Europe’s citizens – Action Plan mplementing the Stockholm Programme
This communication is the first step of the procedure which should lead to the adoption by the JHA Council in June of the Action Plan on the Stockholm Programme, which was adopted by the European...