Indicative programme – Justice and Home Affairs Council of 2 and 3 December 2019

Place:
Europa building, Brussels

Chairs:
Maria Ohisalo, Minister of the Interior
Anna-Maja Henriksson, Minister of Justice

All times are approximate and subject to change

HOME AFFAIRS – Monday, 2 December

from 08.30
Arrivals (live streaming)

+/- 09.00
Doorstep by Minister Ohisalo (live streaming)

+/- 10.00
Meeting of Home Affairs ministers (roundtable)
Adoption of the agenda
Adoption of legislative A items (public session)
Adoption of non-legislative A items

+/- 10.20
Future of EU migration and asylum policy

+/- 11.20
Future of EU internal security

+/- 12.30
Working lunch on future work in home affairs during the legislative cycle 2019-2024

+/- 14.15
Meeting of Mixed committee
Adoption of the agenda
Implementation of interoperability
Implementation of the European Border and Coast Guard regulation
Any other business:
– Current legislative proposals (public session)

+/- 15.30
Meeting of Home Affairs ministers (resumes)
Counter-terrorism cooperation

+/- 16.00
Any other business:
– EU cooperation mechanism on the prevention of radicalisation
– Current legislative proposals (public session)

+/- 16.15
Implementation of interoperability

+/- 16.20
Implementation of the European Border and Coast Guard Regulation

+/- 16.25
Any other business:
– Salzburg Forum Ministerial Conference (Vienna, 6-7 November 2019)
– Presidency report on the progress made in the fields of Justice and Security
– EU-US Justice and Home Affairs Ministerial Meeting
– EU-Western Balkans Ministerial Forum on Justice and Home Affairs (Skopje, 18-19 November 2019)
– Search and Rescue Activities (SAR) in the Mediterranean
– Meeting of Interior Ministers of the Visegrad Group (Prague, 21 November 2019)
– Work programme of the incoming Presidency

+/- 17.15
Press conference (live streaming from Justus Lipsius press room)

JUSTICE – Tuesday, 3 December

from 09.00
Arrivals (live streaming)

+/- 9.15
Doorstep by Minister Henriksson (live streaming)

+/- 10.00
Meeting of Justice ministers (roundtable)

+/- 10.10
Digitalisation of judicial cooperation (public session)

+/- 10.50
Any other business:
– Current legislative proposals (public session)

+/- 11.00
Conclusions on victims rights (public session)

+/- 11.30
Conclusions on alternative measures to detention (public session)

+/- 11.50
Conclusions on future of civil justice cooperation (public session)

+/- 12.35
EPPO: Setting up of the European Public Prosecutors Office

+/- 13.15
Working lunch – new Rule of Law Cycle and the Justice and Home Affairs Council

+/- 15.15
Environmental crime (public session) 

+/- 15.45
Digital Justice: e-evidence

+/- 16.05
Any other business:
– Retention of data for the purpose of fighting crime
– Presidency report on the progress made in the fields of Justice and Security
– EU-US Justice and Home Affairs Ministerial Meeting (Washington DC 11 December 2019)
– EU-Western Balkans Ministerial Forum on Justice and Home Affairs (Skopje, 18-19 November 2019)
– Conference on the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights 10 years (Brussels, 12 November 2019)
– Work programme of the incoming Presidency

+/- 17.00
Press conference (live streaming from Justus Lipsius press room)