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Common Consular Instructions (visa format)
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Common Border Manual (treatment of minors)
Common Border Manual (standard form for refusals)
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Sirene manual
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SIS II: new functions
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European return fund (expulsion)
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ARGO funding programme for implementing EU measures
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Declassified common border manual
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Hague Convention on parental responsibility
Paris Convention on liability in case of nuclear accident (signature)
Protocol to Convention on oil pollution
Paris Convention on liability in case of nuclear accident (ratification)
Hague Conference (securities held with an intermediary)
Danish application of Regs. 44/2001 and 1348/2000
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CoE Convention on contact concerning children
Hague Convention on parental responsibility etc. for children
Protocol on civil liability for industrial water pollution
Protocol to Athens Convention 1974 on carriage of passengers and luggage by sea
Convention on the law applicable to securities held with an intermediary
Convention on international interests in mobile equipment
Slovenian ratification of the Protocol to the Paris Convention on nuclear energy liability
Lugano Convention (Norway, Iceland, Denmark and Switzerland)
Negotiations underway
Hague conference on recognition of judgments
Other negotiations
Protocol to Convention on Oil Pollution Damage
Protocol to Convention on railway rolling stock
Commission communications
Forthcoming measures
Case law
Decided cases
Pending cases
Inadmissible cases
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Negotiations on CoE cybercrime convention
Negotiations on firearms protocol to UN crime convention
UN corruption convention x 3
Terrorism
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Transfer of data to Interpol
Decisions
Information exchange on counterfeit travel documents
Internet child pornography
Amendment of Schengen provisions
Joint data protection secretariat
Financial Intelligence Units
Provisional Eurojust
Provisional European Police College
Transmission of drugs samples
EU crime prevention network
"Grotius II" funding programme
"Oisin II" funding programme
"Stop II" funding programme
"Hippokrates" funding programme
Counterfeiting the euro
SIS II funding
Eurojust
Football hooliganism
Network of contact points for genocide, war crimes etc.
"AGIS" funding programme
Protection of public figures
Implementation of international commitments re. terrorism
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Extradition (Norway & Iceland)
Liaison officers
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Gibraltar and corruption convention
Eurojust finances
Schengen cross-border surveillance provisions
Sirene manual
Legal personality for EU police college
EU police college headquarters
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Synthetic drugs (general)
Counterfeiting the euro (Europol)
Exchange of information on terrorism
European police college
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'Criminal justice' programme
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Europol transmission of data to third states
Synthetic drugs ('PMMA')
Authorisation of Europol negotiations with Albania, Croatia, FRY, FYROM and Bosnia-Herzegovina
Europol staff salaries
Europol staff regulations
Europol confidentiality rules
Europol staff regulations
Europol staff salaries
Synthetic drugs (2C-I, 2C-T-2, 2C-T-7 and TMA-2)
Amendment of Europol staff regulations
Europol staff salaries (correction)
Europol staff salaries (update)
Europol financial Regulation
Framework decisions
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Status of victims
Payment card fraud & counterfeiting
Money laundering
Counterfeiting of the euro
Definition of terrorism
European arrest warrant
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Environmental crime
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Child prostitution/pornography
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Mutual recognition of financial penalties
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Confiscation
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Exchange of police information
Conventions
Mutual legal assistance (MLA) convention
First Protocol to Europol Convention (powers re money laundering)
Protocol to 2000 MLA Convention
Second Protocol to Europol Convention (re investigation teams and powers)
Customs files protocol
Third Protocol to Europol Convention (numerous provisions)
Recommendations
Recommendation on Terrorist financing
Europol requests to MS to start investigations
Europol assistance to joint teams
Cyber-crime network
Terrorism and visiting persons
Harmonisation of drug statistics
Multi-national anti-terrorist teams
Drug-trafficking investigations
Cooperation between agencies tracking drug precursors
Contact points on private security
Information exchange on "terrorist" protestors
Joint investigation teams (model agreement)
Resolutions
Combatting international crime
Euro counterfeiting
Public order at football matches
DNA analysis & exchange
Disappeared children
Football policing handbook
Trafficking in persons
Football match bans
Conclusions
Proposed measures
Common positions
Protocol to CoE money luandering convention
Decisions
Judicial training network
Forensic analysis of synthetic drugs
Europol definitions of forgery & means of payment
European institute of police studies
Disqualifications
Restorative justice
Cross-border police cooperation (meetings/demonstrations)
Human Rights Agency role extension
Cross-border police cooperation (Schengen etc.)
Law enforcement access to VIS
Anti-corruption network
Decision establishing Europol
Cross-border intervention teams for crisis management
Cross-border police cooperation (Prum Treaty Decision)
SIS communications infrastructure
Cross-border police cooperation (implementation Prum Decision)
Decision amending establishment of Eurojust
European Judicial Network
Framework Decisions
Breaches of EC public procurement law
Racism and xenophobia
Trafficking in human organs
'Double jeopardy'
European Evidence Warrant
Criminal suspects' rights
Data retention
Sexual offences against children
Organised crime
European enforcement order (criminal matters)
Prior convictions
Data protection in criminal law and policing
Principle of 'availability' for policing
Criminal record exchange
Pre-trial supervision orders
Alternative sanctions and suspended sentences
Passenger name records
Terrorism (amendment)
‘In absentia’ trials
Conventions
Enforcement of traffic fines
Drug trafficking on high seas
Withdrawn measures
Funding Europol re: terrorism
Exchange of terrorism information by security agencies
Lapsed proposals
Intellectual property rights
International treaties
Concluded
UN Organised crime Convention and two Protocols
Signed
EC signature of firearms protocol to UN Convention on international crime
EU treaty with Norway/Iceland on criminal cooperation
Mutual assistance and extradition treaty with USA
UN Convention on corruption
Proposal to sign
Revision of CoE Money Laundering Convention
Agreed
Europol treaties with Interpol, Iceland & Norway
Europol treaties with Poland, Hungary, Slovenia & Estonia
Europol first treaty with United States
Europol treaty with European Central Bank
Europol treaty with Czech Republic
Europol treaty with World Customs Organisation
Europol second treaty with United States
EU-Ukraine Action Plan on JHA
Negotiations underway
EU treaty with Norway/Iceland on extradition
Europol agreements with Albania, Croatia, FRY, FYROM and Bosnia-Herzegovina
Europol agreements with Canada, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Cyprus
Forthcoming
Europol agreements with third states not yet concluded
Financial delinquency agreements with third states
EU/Canada agreement on extradition and mutual assistance
Common strategies
Treaty on seafarers
Commission communications
Forthcoming measures
Case law
Other JHA measures (mainstream EC Treaty)
Adopted measures
Counterfeiting the euro
Money laundering
PERICLES funding programme to combat counterfeiting the euro
Financial assistance to third states re migration and asylum ("AENEAS")
Access to SIS for vehicle registration authorities
Money laundering
Data retention for law enforcement
Access to SIS II for vehicle registration authorities
Proposed measures
Environmental crime
EC financial interests
EC budget fraud
Maastricht archive (1993-99)
Asylum
Joint Action 97/477/JHA on asylum funding
Joint Action 97/478/JHA on asylum funding
Joint Action 98/244/JHA on ‘Odysseus’ programme
Joint Action 98/304/JHA on asylum funding
Joint Action 98/305/JHA on asylum funding
Joint Action 1999/290/JHA on asylum funding
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Regulations
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Council Regulation 2317/95 on visa requirements for third country nationals
Council Regulation 574/1999 on visa requirements for third country nationals
Joint Actions
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Airport transit visas
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European Imaging Archive System
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Parental responsibility
Criminal Law
Conventions
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Fraud against EC budget - first Protocol
Fraud against EC budget - ECJ Protocol
Fraud against EC budget - second Protocol
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Joint Actions
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Racism and xenophobia
‘Grotius’ programme
Drug trafficking
Trafficking in persons and sexual exploitation
Synthetic drugs
Good practice in mutual legal assistance
Judicial network
Money laundering and confiscation of proceeds
Organised crime
Private corruption
Policing
Conventions
Europol
Europol - ECJ Protocol
Europol - privileges and immunities Protocol
Measures implementing Europol Convention
Customs Information System (CIS)
Provisional Application of CIS Convention
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CIS - Protocol
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Exchange of liaison officers
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International organised crime
EDU mandate extension
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Evaluation of application of acquis by applicant states
US Helms-Burton legislation
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