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Introduction, overview and structure
Migration, asylum, borders and visas (Title IV EC)
Adopted measures
Asylum
European refugee fund
'Eurodac' fingerprints database
Temporary protection
Reception conditions for asylum-seekers - 2003
Asylum responsibility ('Dublin II')
Definition of refugee and content of status
Extension of European Refugee Fund
Asylum procedures
European refugee fund (revision)
Revision of Dublin II Regulation and civil law measures
European Asylum Support Office
Decision amending European Refugee Fund
Qualification and content of international protection
Amendment of European Refugee Fund as regards resettlement
Asylum and migration funding legislation amendment
Reception conditions for asylum-seekers - 2013
Responsibility for asylum applications
International protection procedures
Regulation on Eurodac
Establishment of Asylum and Migration Fund
General provisions for Asylum and Migration Fund
Relocation of asylum-seekers 2015/1523
Relocation of asylum-seekers 2015/1601
Visas and borders (pre-Amsterdam)
Uniform visa format
List of countries subject to visa requirement
Visas and borders (post-Amsterdam)
List of countries subject to visa requirement
Amendment of visa rules
Amendment of external border rules
Long-term visas
Visa requirement for Romanians
Visas and unrecognised entities
Visa format
Common Border Manual (visa issue)
Visa list
Kaliningrad visa
Kaliningrad visa format
Olympic visas
Border crossing points
Visa Information System
Border agency (EU border police)
Stamping of travel documents
Biometrics in EU passports
Visa repicrocity
Short-term visas for researchers
Special rules for Turin Winter Olympics
Border crossing code
Recognition of travel documents (new Member States)
Recognition of travel documents (Switzerland and Liechtenstein)
Local border traffic after enlargement
SIS II (immigration/border control aspects)
SIS II (technical amendment)
EC visa list
European Borders Fund
Rapid Border Intervention Teams
Borders code amendment
Transit to/from Romania and Bulgaria
Amended Decision on transit adding Romania and Bulgaria
Visa Information System
Regulation 856/2008 on visa format
Migration from SIS to SIS II
Borders Code with regard to use of VIS
Biometric visas and visa application centres
Passport security measures
Visa code
Amendment to Regulation establishing EC visa list
Long-stay visas
Reg 541/2010 amending Reg 1104/2008 on migration from SIS to SIS II
Waiving of visa list visa requirement for Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Regulation amending visa list
Agency to manage VIS, SIS and Eurodac
Proposal for Decision drawing up list of travel documents
Amendment to Regulation 2007/2004 establishing Frontex
Regulation amending border traffic Regulation
Regulation 154/2012 amending visa code
Migration from SIS to SIS II
Borders fund amendment
Regulation amending Borders Code regulation
Regulation on Schengen evaluation process
Regulation amending borders code
Regulation establishing Eurosur
Regulation 1289/2013 amending visa list
Regulation 259/2014 amending visa list to waive visa requirements for Moldova
Establishment of instrument for financial support for external borders and visa
Regulation amending visa list Regulation
Maritime surveillance operations
Decision on transit as regards Croatia and Cyprus
Regulation codifying Schengen Borders Code
Regulation creating new Borders and Coast Guard Agency
Visas and borders (implementing measures)
Decision amending confidential provisions of CCI
Amendment of visa rules (incorporation of Nordic states)
Long-term visas, Common Consular Instructions & border manual
Common Consular Instructions amendments (fees)
Border manual amendments
CCI amendments (Schengen visa application forms)
Common Consular Instructions (travel agents)
Common Consular Instructions (visa format)
Common Border Manual amendments (minor changes)
Visa fees
Common Consular Instructions (Pakistani diplomats)
Common Consular Instructions (ATVs for Eritreans)
Consular Instructions amendments (travel insurance)
Common Consular Instructions (representation by MS)
Common Consular Instructions (interviews at consulates)
Common Border Manual (treatment of minors)
Common Border Manual (standard form for refusals)
Visa fees
Irregular migration
EU-wide enforcement of expulsion decisions
"Carrier sanctions"
SIS II funding
Facilitation of illegal entry and residence
Expulsion by air
Transit for land expulsion
Immigration liaison officers network
Sirene manual
Financing expulsion
SIS II: new functions
Passenger information
Joint expulsion flights
Victim's residence permits
Network for migration management
European return fund (expulsion)
Common rules for expulsion
Sanctions for employers of irregular migrants
Amendment to Regulation on immigration liaison officers
Regulation establishing standard document for expulsion
Legal migration
Uniform residence permit
ARGO funding programme for implementing EU measures
Social security
Family reunion
Status of long-term residents
Migration of students and volunteers
ARGO decision
Migration of researchers (Directive)
Migration of researchers (Recommendation)
Asylum and immigration information exchange
European integration Fund
Residence permit format
Migration Network
Blue Card Directive
Social security for third-country nationals
Refugees and beneficiaries of subsidiary protection
Single application procedure for a single permit for third-country nationals and a common set of rights for third-country workers
Admission of seasonal workers
Admission of intra-corporate transferees
Admission of students, researchers and others
Proposed measures
Asylum
Regulation creating EU Asylum Agency
Regulation amending Dublin III Regulation
Amendment of Dublin III Regulation re relocation of asylum-seekers
Common list of 'safe countries of origin'
Amendment of relocation Decision to exempt Sweden for one year
Amendment to Decision on relocation
Regulation recasting Eurodac Regulation
Regulation replacing Dublin III Regulation
Regulation on resettlement
Regulation on procedures
Regulation replacing qualification Directive
Directive recasting reception conditions Directive
Visas and border control
Entry-exit system
Regulation amending borders code
Regulation recasting visa code
Regulation establishing touring visa
Regulation amending Schengen Borders Code
Waiving visas for Georgia
Waiving visas for Ukraine
Visa list Regulation as regards safeguard clause
Waiving visas for Kosovo
Waiving visas for Turkey
EU travel authorization system
Returns and Schengen Information System
Borders and Schengen Information System
Legal migration
Directive replacing Blue Card Directive
Irregular migration
Institutional matters
Decision-making rules
Court of Justice jurisdiction
Lapsed proposals
'Safe third countries'
Airport transit visas
Extension of freedom to travel (non-visa nationals)
'Internal readmission'
Illegal immigration networks
Freedom to travel
Migration for employment
Visa format, biometrics
SIS communications infrastructure
Codifying of Regulations establishing EC visa format
Schengen evaluation process
Codifying of Regulations establishing EC visa list
Registered traveller programme
International treaties
Treaties in force
Asylum treaty with Norway and Iceland
EC/Hong Kong readmission agreement
Treaty with China on 'Approved Destination Status'
EC/Macao readmission agreement
EC/Sri Lanka readmission agreement
Treaties with Denmark
EC/Albania readmission agreement
EC/Norway/Iceland protocol on asylum responsibility
UN Convention on trafficking in persons
EC/Russia readmission agreement
EC/Russia Visa facilitation treaty
EC/Ukraine readmission agreement
EC/Ukraine visa facilitation treaty
Visa facilitation and readmission agreements with Western Balkans
Visa facilitation and readmission agreements with Moldova
Schengen and asylum Treaties with Switzerland
Visa treaties with Mauritius, Antigua/Barbuda, Barbados, Seychelles, St. Kitts and Nevis and Bahamas
Treaty with Switzerland and Liechtenstein on association with Borders Agency
Readmission agreement with Pakistan
Treaties with Georgia on visa facilitation and readmission
Treaties applied provisionally
Norway/Iceland participation in EU border agencies
Concluded treaties
Treaty with Norway, Iceland, Switzerland and Liechtenstein on association with Borders Fund
Treaties with Brazil on visa waiver
Treaties with Switzerland and Denmark regarding Schengen and Dublin rules
Treaty with Norway, Iceland, Switzerland and Liechtenstein on association with Commission committees within the scope of the Schengen acquis
Signed treaties
Readmission treaty with Turkey
Visa facilitation and readmission treaties with Cape Verde
Negotiations concluded
Treaties with Armenia on visa facilitation and readmission
Revision of visa facilitation treaties with Moldova, Russia and Ukraine
Treaty with Azerbaijan on visa facilitation and readmission
Treaty with Schengen associates on relations with European asylum support office
Treaties on visa waiver with Palau, Tonga, Peru, Colombia, Kiribati
Treaties on visa waiver with Tuvalu, Marshall Islands
Treaty on visa waiver for Chinese diplomatic visa holders
Negotiations underway
Readmission treaties
Negotiations for visa and readmission treaties with Belarus
Treaty with Morocco on visa facilitation
Possible treaties
Future readmission Treaties
Related decisions
Treaty on seafarers
Commission communications
Forthcoming measures
Asylum
Visas & border control
Legal migration
Irregular migration
Administrative cooperation
Case law
Substantive case law
Infringement actions
Schengen Convention and acquis
Adopted measures
Basic decisions
Definition of acquis
Allocation of acquis
Accession
Extension of Schengen to Greece
UK partial application to join
Full application to Nordic states
Irish partial application to join
Extension of Schengen to nine new Member States
Extension of Schengen acquis to Switzerland
Administrative decisions
Schengen secretariat
Contracts for SIS
Financial regulation of SIS/SISNET
Schengen Joint Supervisory Body
Declassified common border manual
Declassified further part of common border manual
Declassified Sirene manual
Declassification of part of Common Consular Instructions (CCI)
Repeal of obsolete Schengen acquis measures
International treaties
Treaties with Norway/Iceland
Case law
Decided cases
Withdrawn cases
Civil law cooperation (Title IV EC)
Adopted measures
Insolvency proceedings
Judgments on divorce and parental responsibility
Service of judicial documents
Civil and commercial judgments
"Grotius" civil law funding programme
Cross-border taking of evidence
European judicial network
Civil law funding programme
Legal aid
Parental responsibility
European Enforcement Order (civil/commercial)
Compensation for crime victims
European Payment order
European small claims procedure
"Rome II" on non-contractual obligations
European 'Civil Justice' funding programme
Service of documents
Directive on mediation
"Rome I" on contractual obligations
Revision of Dublin II Regulation and civil law measures
Maintenance obligations
Amendment to Decision on judicial network
Member States' negotiation and conclusion of external treaties relating to maintenance, divorce and parental responsibility
Negotiation of external treaties relating to conflict of laws regarding contractual and non-contractual obligations
Enhanced cooperation on choice of law in divorce proceedings
'Rome III' Regulation on choice of law and jurisdiction in divorce proceedings
Law and jurisdiction in succession proceedings
Civil and commercial jurisdiction
Civil law enforcement of protection orders
Amendment to civil jurisdiction Regulation
European account preservation orders
Amendment of insolvency Regulation
Amendment of small claims and order for payment Regulations
Enhanced cooperation re choice of law and jurisdiction on registered partnerships and matrimonial property
Choice of law and jurisdiction on matrimonial property
Regulation on choice of law and jurisdiction on registered partnerships
Proposed measures
"co-decision" in maintenance obligations
Amendment of prior legislation regarding implementing measures
Choice of law and jurisdiction on matrimonial property
Choice of law and jurisdiction on registered partnerships
Lapsed and withdrawn proposals
Jurisdiction over employment contracts
Rights in respect of securities held with an intermediary
Pollution caused by industrial accidents
Law and jurisdiction in divorce proceedings
International treaties
Adopted
Civil liability for bunker oil pollution damage
Damage caused by carrying hazardous substances by sea
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
Slovenian ratification of the Protocol to the Paris Convention on nuclear energy liability
Hague Convention on parental responsibility etc. for children
Lugano Convention (Norway, Iceland, Denmark and Switzerland)
Convention on international interests in mobile equipment
Protocol to convention on maintenance obligations
Procedure relating to treaties with Denmark
Convention on maintenance obligations
Protocol to Athens Convention 1974 on carriage of passengers and luggage by sea
Protocol to Vienna convention on nuclear liability
Decision amending EU conclusion of Hague Convention on maintenance
Treaty on choice-of-court agreements
Protocol to the convention on international interests in mobile equipment on matters specific to railway rolling stock
Proposed
Accession of Gabon, Andorra, Seychelles, Russia, Albania, Singapore, Morocco and Armenia to Hague Child Abduction Convention
Austria and Malta accession to Hague Convention on service of documents
Decision authorizing Austria and Poland to accede to Budapest Convention on carriage of goods
Negotiations underway
Hague conference on recognition of judgments
Other negotiations
Protocol to Convention on Oil Pollution Damage
Withdrawn
CoE Convention on contact concerning children
Commission communications
Forthcoming measures
Case law
Decided cases
Pending cases
Inadmissible cases
Withdrawn cases
Police cooperation and criminal law (pre-Lisbon; Title VI EU)
Adopted measures
Common positions
Negotiations on CoE cybercrime convention
Negotiations on firearms protocol to UN crime convention
UN corruption convention x 3
Terrorism
Specific measures against terrorism
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
Implementation of police & judicial cooperation on terrorism
Extradition (Norway & Iceland)
Liaison officers
'War crimes' investigations (screening of asylum-seekers)
Gibraltar and corruption convention
Eurojust finances
Schengen cross-border surveillance provisions
Sirene manual
Legal personality for EU police college
EU police college headquarters
Vehicle crime
New functions for SIS
Synthetic drugs (general)
Counterfeiting the euro (Europol)
Exchange of information on terrorism
European police college
Criminal record information exchange
Police liaison officers
Decision on SIS II (amendment)
'Criminal justice' programme
'Crime prevention' programme
SIS II (Criminal law/policing aspects)
Football hooligans
Asset recovery network
Cross-border intervention teams
Cross-border police cooperation (Prum Treaty Decision)
Cross-border police cooperation (implementation of Prum Decision)
Law enforcement access to VIS
Anti-corruption network
Migration from SIS to SIS II
Decision amending Decision establishing Eurojust
European Judicial Network
Implementation of Framework Decision on exchange of criminal records
Decision establishing Europol
Protection of public figures amendment
Replacement of Customs Information System
Crime prevention network
Extending EU/USA extraditon treaties to Netherlands Antilles and Aruba
Decisions implementing conventions and joint actions
Amendment of Europol staff salaries
Amendment of Europol staff regulations
Decision on Europol staff salaries
Extension of Europol's mandate
Europol negotiations with third states/agencies (Monaco/UN)
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
Counterfeiting of euro
Status of victims
Payment card fraud & counterfeiting
Money laundering
Counterfeiting of the euro
Definition of terrorism
European arrest warrant
Joint investigation teams
Trafficking in humans
Illegal entry and residence
Environmental crime
Freezing of assets and evidence
Corruption in the private sector
Child prostitution/pornography
Drug trafficking
Mutual recognition of financial penalties
Attacks on information systems
Confiscation
Ship pollution
Confiscation orders
Exchange of police information
Prior convictions
Organised crime
Transfer of custodial sentences
Data protection in criminal law and policing
Alternative sanctions and suspended sentences
Racism and xenophobia
Terrorism (amendment)
European Evidence Warrant
Criminal record exchange
In absentia trials
Pre-trial supervision orders
Conflicts of jurisdiction in criminal matters
Accreditation of forensic laboratory activities
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
Schengen evaluation system
Agency to manage SIS and VIS
Access to Eurodac by law enforcement authorities
Amendment of Decision on migration from SIS to SIS II
Framework Decisions
Breaches of EC public procurement law
Trafficking in human organs
'Double jeopardy'
Data retention
Convictions for sexual offences against children
Principle of 'availability' for policing
Passenger name records
Combating sexual exploitation of children
Trafficking in persons
Transfer of criminal proceedings
Interpretation and translation in the framework of criminal proceedings
Conventions
Enforcement of traffic fines
Drug trafficking on high seas
Lapsed proposals
Commission proposal on funding Europol re: terrorism
Intellectual property rights
Exchange of information on terrorism held by security and intelligence agencies
Cross-border police cooperation
Rights of suspects and defendants
SIS communications infrastructure
International treaties
Concluded
UN Organised crime Convention and two Protocols
UN Convention on corruption
Mutual assistance and extradition treaty with USA
Treaty with Norway and Iceland associating them with Prum Decisions
Mutual assistance treaty with Japan
Treaty with Norway and Iceland on mutual assistance
Signed
EC signature of firearms protocol to UN Convention on international crime
SWIFT treaty with USA
Treaty with Norway and Iceland regarding extradition
PNR treaty with USA
PNR treaty with Australia
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
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
Criminal law and policing (post-Lisbon)
Adopted measures
Directives
Right to interpretation and translation in the framework of criminal proceedings
Trafficking in persons
Exchange of information on traffic offences
Sexual exploitation of children
European protection order
Right to information on criminal proceedings
Crime victims' rights
Attacks on information systems
Access to lawyer and communication rights
European investigation order
Freezing and confiscation of criminal proceeds
Criminal sanctions against market abuse
Counterfeiting currency
Regulations
Migration of third-pillar SIS to SIS II
Regulation 1272/2012 on migration from SIS to SIS II
Regulation establishing a Justice Programme
Financial support for police cooperation, preventing and combating crime, crisis management
Regulation amending Decision on European Police College
Proposed measures
Directives
Passenger name records
Protection of EU financial interests
Directive on combating terrorism
Drug trafficking
Presumption of innocence
Childrens' rights as suspects
Provisional legal aid
Regulations
Regulation on Europol
European Public Prosecutor's Office
Regulation on Eurojust
Regulation on European Police College
Withdrawn
Right to interpretation and translation in the framework of criminal proceedings
External relations
Treaties in force
Access to Swift information - between EU and USA
Exchange of PNR data between EU and Australia
Exchange of PNR data between EU and USA
Treaties Agreed
Exchange of PNR data between EU and Canada
Approval of criminal law aspects of UN tobacco control protocol
Treaties under negotiation
Treaty on exchange of personal data between EU and USA
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
Visas and Borders
Regulations
Uniform visa format
Council Regulation 2317/95 on visa requirements for third country nationals
Council Regulation 574/1999 on visa requirements for third country nationals
Joint Actions
Crossing of internal borders by organised school groups
Airport transit visas
"Sherlock" programme
European Imaging Archive System
Illegal Migration
Legal Migration
Uniform residence permit
Civil Cooperation
Service of documents
Parental responsibility
Criminal Law
Conventions
Simplified extradition
Fraud against EC budget
Fraud against EC budget - first Protocol
Fraud against EC budget - ECJ Protocol
Fraud against EC budget - second Protocol
Extradition
Corruption
Driving Disqualification
Joint Actions
Exchange of liaison magistrates
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
CIS - ECJ Protocol
CIS - Protocol
CIS - later measures
Naples II Convention
Joint Actions
Europol Drugs Unit
Exchange of liaison officers
Specialist counter-terrorist expertise
Drug trafficking
Chemical profiling of drugs
"STOP" programme
International organised crime
EDU mandate extension
"Oisin" programme
Balkan drug route
Cooperation in law and order
Targeting criteria for police
"Falcon" programme
Miscellaneous
Funding measures
Evaluation of MS efforts re organised crime
Evaluation of application of acquis by applicant states
US Helms-Burton legislation
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