Security, justice and immigration

19 measures of which seven framework decisions, two decisions, three directives and two regulations

Legislation – 14 acts

• Framework decision to support and develop judicial cooperation on civil and criminal matters
• Framework decision to ensure effective cooperation to fight crime and terror – includes provision of intelligence on the EU scale
• Framework decision to set up immigration quotas – consolidates integrated EU border management and common asylum policies
• Directive to ensure EU standards for the deportations of illegal immigrants
• Regulation to create an EU Fundamental Rights Agency
• Decision to set up a European register/database of criminal convictions
• Decision creating a European Law Enforcement Network (LEN) to fight terrorism
• Regulation to ensure the recovery of maintenance obligations or alimony across the EU
• Framework decision to ensure common standards for pre-trial detention – likely to derogate national anti-terror laws
• Framework decision setting common standards for data protection under EU criminal information exchanges
• Framework decision setting an ‘adequate level of data protection’ as a standard for international agreements allowing the transfer of air passenger data outside the EU
• Directive to make breaches of EU intellectual property rights a criminal offence
• Framework decision to bring closer differing penal sanctions against counterfeiters across Europe

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