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Commissioners Avramopoulos, Jourová and King in #Bucharest for informal meeting of Justice and Home Affairs Ministers

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Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos, Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality Věra Jourová and Commissioner for the Security Union Julian King will attend the informal Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting in Bucharest on 7 and 8 February. The meeting of home affairs ministers will start on Thursday morning with sessions dedicated to EU counter-terrorism and police co-operation, with the participation of Commissioners Avramopoulos and King. Discussions will continue over lunch with an exchange of views on the functioning of the Schengen area. In the afternoon, Commissioner Avramopoulos will discuss with ministers the way forward on migration and asylum. Commissioner Avramopoulos and the Minister of Internal Affairs of Romania Carmen Daniela Dan will then give a press conference at +/- 16.15 (CET), which will be livestreamed on EbS+. On Friday, Commissioner Jourová will join Justice Ministers to discuss the way forward in the area of judicial cooperation in civil and commercial matters. Over lunch, Justice Ministers will discuss cross-border access to electronic evidence for criminal investigations. In this context, Commissioners Jourová and King will then present the negotiating mandates for the EU-US agreement on the exchange of e-evidence and for the Second additional protocol to the Budapest Convention (see press release). A press conference will take place at +/- 14:30 (CET).

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