SEMDOC
JHA Council working parties [interactive diagram]
EU Justice and Home Affairs ministers have little more than a 'rubber-stamping' role in the Council's decision-making process. Substantive negotiations are resolved in standing committees and working parties. Click on a committee or working party for latest agendas and/or documents.
See also: European Commission Committees dealing with JHA issues
Discontinued/disbanded JHA working parties
- Working Party on the Schengen Acquis (discontinued in 2003 following incorporation of Schengen acquis into EU Framework): Working Party on the Schengen Acquis
- Working Party on Collective Evaluation (of acceding states compliance with the EU acquis; discontinued following enlargement of EU): Collective evaluation working party
- Working Party on Data Protection (disbanded in 2001/2; reconvened in 2006-7 to examine Framework Decision): Working Party on Data Protection
- Working Party on the Contact and Support Network (discontinued in 2001/2): Contact and Support Network
- CIREA (Centre for Reflection, Exchange and Analysis of asylum statistics; discontinued in 2002, tasks taken over by the Commission): CIREA
- Working Party on Drug Trafficking (discontinued in 2001/2; talks distributed among working parties on police cooperation and organised crime): Working Party on drug trafficking
- SIRENE Working Party (merged with SIS Working Party, above, in 2001/2)
- See further: 'rationalisation' of JHA working parties in 2001/2 (Public register of Council documents)
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