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The year 2010 marked a new start for the JHA (justice and home affairs) domain: it was the first year of the application of the -- in this domain extensive -- Lisbon Treaty reforms; the first year of the 201014 Stockholm Programme, which saw tensions between the Commission and the Council over the implementation of the Programme; and the first year of a new European Union (EU) Internal Security Strategy, which revealed problems of the new administrative splitting of the JHA domain between 'home affairs' and justice in the Commission. The Greek asylum crisis highlighted again the deficits of EU policy in this field, but the establishment of the new Asylum Support Office offered some new perspectives, and the Commission also made new proposals in the difficult field of legal migration. The border agency Frontex saw a new expansion of its activities, and some legislative progress was made in both the civil and the criminal justice fields. The total annual output of the JHA Council dropped slightly from 121 adopted texts the year before to 114 texts,1 indicating a slow start to the implementation of the Stockholm Programme. In this article, we will examine developments in each of the main JHA policy areas and then conclude with a look at the plans for the further implementation of the Stockholm Programme. Adapted from the source document.

The year 2012 was an important test of the European Union's capacity to meet its own objectives in the field of justice and home affairs. The 2009-14 'Stockholm Programme' on the EU's 'area of freedom, security and justice' foresaw the completion of the common European asylum system (CEAS) by the end of the year. This objective was missed, but by a narrower margin than the differences between Council and Parliament initially suggested, with political agreement having been reached on two of the still missing four recast legislative acts and only the Directive on asylum procedures and the electronic fingerprint exchange system (Eurodac) regulation still remaining on the negotiation table. The EU's migration policy saw slow progress on the seasonal workers and intra-corporate transferees directives, but the Council redefined priorities for the EU's international action in the field. Judicial co-operation took significant steps forward with the adoption of the recast 'Brussels I Regulation' on jurisdiction, and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters and of a new regulation on jurisdiction and mutual recognition in matters of succession as well as -- in the criminal justice domain -- of a reinforced directive on victims' rights and the right to information in criminal proceedings. In the internal security domain the focus was primarily on the implementation of previously agreed objectives, with implementation again appearing as one of the persisting challenges of EU action in this field. Adapted from the source document.

Examines developments in European Union justice & home affairs in 2004. The policy areas of asylum, immigration, visas, external border control, cooperation in civil & commercial law, police cooperation, & counterterrorism are addressed before outlining some of the changes to the provisions of the European Convention in the sphere of freedom, security, & justice emerging from the Intergovernmental Conference. References. J. Zendejas

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