Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs
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The Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs (DG HOME) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission. The role of the body is to ensure the EU's security, aiming to create an area of freedom, security and justice. It promotes police cooperation (through Europol) to combat terrorism, organised crime, trafficking of firearms, human trafficking, child abuse and sexual exploitation.[1]
It works through an Internal Security Strategy, part of the European Security Strategy, and also deals with border management (through Frontex), civil protection, disaster management and the creation of a common EU migration and asylum policy.[1]
Structure
As well as a "shared resources" directorate (budget, human resources, etc.), the directorate-general has five functional directorates:
- Directorate A: Strategy and General Affairs
- Directorate B: Migration and Mobility
- Directorate C: Migration and Protection
- Directorate D: Security
- Directorate E: Migration and Security Funds
History
DG HOME was created in 2010 when the DG Justice, Freedom and Security was split into DG HOME and the Directorate-General for Justice.[2]
See also
- European Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship
- Justice and Home Affairs Council (Council of the European Union)
- European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
- Area of freedom, security and justice
- Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
- Four Freedoms
- European Court of Justice
- Court of First Instance
- European Union Civil Service Tribunal
- European Convention on Human Rights
- European Court of Human Rights
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Police and Judicial Co-operation in Criminal Matters
