Indicative programme
All times are approximate and subject to change
Place:
Europa building, Brussels
Chairs:
Sándor Pintér, Hungarian Minister for the Interior
Bence Tuzson, Hungarian Minister for Justice
Thursday, 12 December – HOME AFFAIRS
+/- 08.30
Arrivals (live streaming)
+/- 08.30
Doorstep by Sándor Pintér, Hungarian Minister for the Interior (live streaming)
09.30
Beginning of the Justice and Home Affairs Council (Home Affairs)
Adoption of the agenda
Approval of «A» items:
- Non-legislative list
Council Decision setting the date for the lifting of checks on persons at internal land borders with and between the Republic of Bulgaria and Romania
+/- 10.00
Implementation of interoperability
Overall state of the Schengen area – Implementation of the priorities of the annual Schengen Council cycle: Increasing overall security through digitalisation
Approval of «A» items:
- Legislative items (+/- 12.30 public session)
Regulation to prevent and combat child sexual abuse (+/- 12.40 public session)
Any other business:
- Current legislative proposals (+/- 13.10 public session)
- Preparedness of the Union
- Migration and Asylum: Implementation of migration and asylum reforms
+/- 14.00
Working lunch: Migration and Asylum
+/- 15.45
Countering security challenges: assessment by European domestic security and inteligence services
Legislative and operational planning within the area of freedom, security and justice
Access to data for effective law enforcement: concluding report of the High-Level Group
The fight against drug trafficking and organised crime
Any other business:
- EU-Western Balkans Ministerial Forum on Justice and Home Affairs (Budva, 28-29 October 2024)
- 7th Ministerial Conference of the Budapest Process (Budapest, 11-12 November 2024)
- Work programme of the incoming Presidency
At the end of the meeting (+/- 17.30 in the Justus Lipsius press room) press conference Home Affairs in live streaming.
Friday, 13 December – JUSTICE
+/- 08.30
Arrivals (live streaming)
+/- 08.45
Doorstep by Bence Tuzson, Hungarian Minister of Justice (live streaming)
09.45
Continuation of the Justice and Home Affairs Council (Justice)
Directive on minimum rules to prevent migrant smuggling (+/- 09.45 public session)
Directive on combating the sexual abuse and the sexual exploitation of children (+/- 10.00 public session)
Directive harmonising certain aspects of insolvency law (+/- 10.15 public session)
Any other business:
- Current legislative proposals (+/- 10.30 public session)
The future of EU criminal law
Access to data for effective law enforcement: concluding report of the High-Level Group
The fight against drug trafficking and organised crime
Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine: fight against impunity
Enhancing the European Investigation Order: results from the final report on mutual evaluations (10th Round)
+/- 13.15
Working lunch: Developing AI systems in the field of justice
+/- 14.45
Legislative and operational planning within the area of freedom, security and justice
Any other business:
- EU-Western Balkans Ministerial Forum on Justice and Home Affairs (Budva, 28-29 October 2024)
- EU-US negotiations on an e-evidence agreement
- Fight against antisemitism – developments in the area of combatting antisemitism
- Work programme of the incoming Presidency
At the end of the meeting (+/- 15.45 in the Justus Lipsius press room) press conference Justice in live streaming.
Meeting page – Justice and Home Affairs Council (Home Affairs), 12 December 2024
Meeting page – Justice and Home Affairs Council (Justice), 13 December 2024