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Informal meeting of Justice & Home Affairs Council

from 15 July 2010 to 16 July 2010
09:00 - 15:30

The informal JHA Council will be attended by Ministers of Justice, Asylum & Immigration and Home Affairs.

  • Wednesday 14: informal dinner
  • Thursday 15: plenary asylum &immigration session, press conference, lunch, plenary home affairs session, press conference, site-seeing and gala dinner at Serres de Laeken.
  •  Friday 16: Ministers of Justice breakfast at Châlet Robinson, plenary justice session, press conference, lunch
     

Agenda

 

The press may already collect their badges Wednesday the 14th of July, from 14.00 till 16.00.
Location: Petit Sablon, 8 bis, Brussels.

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Councils: Justice and Home Affairs

Where

Egmont Palace, Petit Sablon 8, 1000 Brussels
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Related Events

  • 16/07/2010: Launch of the European "e-Justice" Web portal

    The intention behind the e-Justice project is to develop the use of information and communications technologies in the field of European justice. The ambitious objective of this project is to put in place an on-line European portal bringing together useful information and granting access to all the existing national e-Justice systems and to certain specific functionalities developed at European level. The e-Justice portal, which will be launched on 16 July, is the result of long drawn-out work undertaken jointly by the Member States and the European Commission.

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  • Council of the EU:

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