Legal Affairs

 

Building Europe together on the Rule of law

To promote law as an instrument of democracy, human rights and the rule of law, to improve the efficiency of justice by proposing more flexible judicial procedures, to find common solutions to the new legal and ethical problems which scientific and technological progress poses to modern societies.

     

Legal framework and
organisation of a democratic State

Public international law - CAHDI
Law making
Legal framework of civil society

Legal relations between
individuals and with the State

Civil and commercial law
Family law and children's rights - CJ-FA
Administrative law and justice - CJ-DA
Foreigners and citizens (nationality - CJ-NA, asylum, refugees, stateless persons - CAHAR)

Improving the independence
and the operation of justice

Operation of justice (European Commission for Efficiency of Justice, information technology, legal aid, ADR, enforcement of judgements)
Information society services
Legal professionals (judges, prosecutors, lawyers, notaries, court clerks, bailiffs)
Transnational criminal justice (criminal law, International Criminal Court)

Scientific revolution and
legal protection of the human being

Data protection
Bioethics
Biological safety, including
the use of animals

 

Rule of law
and citizen's security

Fight against Terrorism
Combating economic crime (corruption, organised crime, trafficking in human beings, money laundering, cybercrime)
Police and internal security
Prisons and alternatives
Fight against sexual exploitation
of children

Crime prevention and crime policy

Steering Committees
European Committee on Legal Co-operation (CDCJ)
European Committee on Crime Problems (CDPC)
Steering Committee on Bioethics (CDBI)

Conferences
and high-level meetings

Conference of European Ministers of Justice
High-level meetings of the Ministries of Interior
Conference of Prosecutors General of Europe
Conferences and multilateral meetings
in the field of Justice

European Conference of specialised services
in the fight against corruption

European Conference on Nationality
European Conference on Family Law
Meetings of Presidents of European Supreme Courts
Meetings of bar associations