1. The External Dimension of Justice and Home Affairs (JHA)
Wouter van de Rijt
EU Council Secretariat
Brussels, 3 July 2015

2. Main Challenges to Internal Security with an External Dimension
E.g.:
Terrorism (9/11, foreign fighters)
Organised Crime (Trafficking in Human Beings, Drug Trafficking, Corruption)
Regular and irregular Migration (Global Approach)
Judicial cooperation in criminal and in civil matters
Failure of institutions, i.e. judiciary and law enforcement bodies, in weak states (FIU‘s)
Cyber crime

3. „Le retour en sécurité intérieure“
Internal Security
External Dimension
EU Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Safe area around EU, security belt
Police Cooperation, e.g. Europol, Policy cycle
Fight organised crime outside the EU (Policy cycle, R-OCTA, SEE-OCTA)
Judicial Cooperation, e.g. Eurojust, EAW
Facilitate mutual legal assistance, extradition (EU-US)
Counter-terrorism
Prevent, protect, assist abroad as well
Asylum and Migration
Address root causes, organise return, readmission, integration
Visa, border management, document security
Get information as early upstream as possible

4. Objectives
Facilitate Mobility (Visa, borders, passengers, refugees, etc),
Global Approach to Migration
Ensure Security (fight crime, exchange data, protect victims)
Promote Justice, (democracy, rule of law, legislation, structures, data protection, etc)
With future Member States
(Western Balkans, …)
With neighbouring states (Ukraine, Morocco, Algeria, Belarus, …)
With strategic partners
(United States, Russia)
With single-issue partners
(Latin America, India, Australia)
To establish and area of freedom, security and justice / to safeguard the internal security of the EU

5. Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein with a special status:
Internal partners in Schengen
External partners of the EU

6. Concrete examples
Renewed EU-U.S. Statement Enhancing transatlantic cooperation in the area of Justice, Freedom and Security
Western Balkans Ministerial Forum
Meeting with the Eastern Partnership

7. Principles Partnership with third countries
Differentiation and flexibility
Use of all available instruments, including those of CFSP/CSDP
Coordination with Member States
Conditionality (carrot and stick)
Transparency and accountability (i.a. Court of Auditors‘ reports)

8. Differentiated responses to differentiated processes
Long-term building and stabilising capacity, regional cooperation, EU perspective (Western Balkans)
Strategic and political process (Russia, United States)
Global Approach to Migration (Africa, Eastern partners)

9. Impact of the events Western Balkans
9/11, London/Madrid, PNR, Foreign fighters
Dover
Orange revolution
Georgia/Crimea
Arab spring

10. Who is involved? Role of the European Parliament
The Presidency (of the Council/the European Council), the Commission, the High Representative for Foreign Affairs & Security
Agencies (Eurojust, Europol, Frontex)
Member States
others such as CT-Coordinator, Liaison Officers
Role of the European Parliament
The JAIEX working party
EU civilian missions abroad (EULEX-Kosovo, EUTM-Mali)

11. JHA Relex at a Glance Visa, asylum, migration, borders
With future Member States
With neighbouring States
With United States and Russia
With single issue partners
Visa, asylum, migration, borders
Police cooperation and
data exchange
Judicial cooperation in
commercial, civil and criminal matters
Counter terrorism
Summit
JHA Ministers
Senior level Officials
Agencies
JHA Wide-Committees
Expert Groups
Strategic Partnerships
Association Agreements
Cooperation Agreements
Action Plans
Civil Operations
Projects

12. 2013
2015

13. Everything you always wanted to know about JHA-Relex, but were afraid to ask….
17024/1/09: The Stockholm Programme – An open and secure Europe serving and protecting the citizens
Strategic Guidelines for the future of Justice and Home Affairs, Official Journal C240 of 24 July 2014, page 13
14366/3/05 REV 3 JHA Relex strategy adopted by the Council in 2005
Implementation reports in 2006 (docs /06 and 15363/06), 2008 (docs. 9391/08 and 9572/1/08 REV 1), 2010 (doc. 5083/10) and 2011 (doc /11)
14238/08 - Creation of an information and coordination mechanism concerning the external dimension of JHA questions, including a temporary ad hoc support group
11413/09 Contribution by the UK delegation on the Strategy for the External Dimension of Justice and Home Affairs
Court of Auditors Special Report No. 18/2012: The effectiveness of EU assistance to Kosovo in the field of the rule of law

14. Questions ?
Shoot !