Fundamental Rights Aspects of certain outstanding Justice and Home Affairs Files
Letter to the LIBE Committee discussing the state of play of the relevant legislative files in the field of Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) that the new European Parliament has inherited from the previous mandate and critical human rights issues in them. This note covers two horizontal issues first: the European Council Strategic Guidelines for 2020 and the new EU framework to strengthen the Rule of Law. In the area of Home Affairs the issues discussed in this note are the Task Force Mediterranean, the Smart Borders Package, the recast of the Visa Code and the recast of the Researchers Directive. For Justice the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Fair Trials Package, reform of the EAW and other mutual recognition instruments, and the General Data
Protection package are discussed.
Fundamental Rights Aspects of certain outstanding Justice and Home Affairs Files
Letter to the LIBE Committee discussing the state of play of the relevant legislative files in the field of Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) that the new European Parliament has inherited from the previous mandate and critical human rights issues in them. This note covers two horizontal issues first: the European Council Strategic Guidelines for 2020 and the new EU framework to strengthen the Rule of Law. In the area of Home Affairs the issues discussed in this note are the Task Force Mediterranean, the Smart Borders Package, the recast of the Visa Code and the recast of the Researchers Directive. For Justice the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Fair Trials Package, reform of the EAW and other mutual recognition instruments, and the General Data
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29 August 2014