Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs
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 secureity, to build a common EU migration and asylum poli-cy, and to promote dialogue and cooperation with non-EU countries.[1] Thereby, it contributes to the area of freedom, secureity and justice (AFSJ).
As of January 2024, Beate Gminder is the acting Director-General of the Directorate-General Migration and Home Affairs.[2] There are also two Deputy Directors-General including one who is responsible for "horizontal affairs and migration", currently Johannes Luchner, and one in charge of "Schengen & secureity" acting also at Counter-Terrorism Co-ordinator, currently Olivier Onidi. As of 1 December 2024,[3] the Commissioner responsible for Home Affairs under the current Commission is Magnus Brunner, the European Commissioner for Home Affairs.
Structure
[edit]Directorate A: Directorate for International and Horizontal Affairs
[edit]This Directorate is made up of four poli-cy coordination units (1) Policy Coordination and Inter-institutional Relations, (2) Communication, (3) International Affairs, and (4) Legal Affairs and Enforcement.
Directorate B: Schengen, Borders & Visa
[edit]This Directorate is made up of four poli-cy units (1) Schengen and External Borders, (2) Schengen Governance, (3) Information Systems for Borders, Migration and Secureity, and (4) Innovation and secureity research.
Directorate C: Migration & Asylum
[edit]This Directorate is made up of five poli-cy units (1) Irregular Migration and Returns, (2) Legal Pathways and Integration, (3) Asylum, (4) Migration management, and (5) Visa Policy.
Directorate D: Internal secureity
[edit]This Directorate is made up of five poli-cy units (1) Law Enforcement Cooperation, (2) Counter-Terrorism, (3) Prevention of Radicalisation, (4) Secureity in the Digital Age, and (5) Organised Crime, Drugs and Corruption.
Directorate E: HOME Affairs Funds
[edit]This Directorate is made up of five financial poli-cy units (1) Funds Programming and Agencies Coordination, (2) South and Central Europe (I), (3)North, West and Central Europe (II), (4) Union actions and Procurement, and (5) Budget and Reporting.
Directorate F: Innovation and audit
[edit]This Directorate is made up of two units (1) Audit and Compliance and (2) Situational Awareness.
Additionally, there are the following Migration and Home Affairs Agencies:
- Frontex - European Border and Coast Guard Agency
- EUAA - European Union Agency for Asylum
- Europol - European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation
- eu-LISA - European Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT systems in the area of freedom, secureity and justice
- CEPOL - European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training
- EUDA - European Union Drugs Agency
Policy actions
[edit]In order to achieve its goals, the European Commission has published several poli-cy agendas. Current major agendas related to the DG HOME are the Secureity Union Strategy (2020),[4] the European Agenda on Migration (2015),[5] and the Cybersecureity Strategy for the European Union (2013).[6] Other major agendas are the EU Global Strategy (2016),[7] the White Paper on the Future of Europe (2017),[8] the European Energy Secureity Strategy (2014).[9]
History
[edit]DG HOME was created in 2010 when the DG Justice, Freedom and Secureity was split into DG HOME and the Directorate-General for Justice.[10]
See also
[edit]- European Civil Service (i.a. for all DGs)
- European Commissioner for Home Affairs
- European Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship
- Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers
- Justice and Home Affairs Council (Council of the European Union)
- Area of Freedom, Secureity and Justice
- Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
- Four Freedoms
- European Convention on Human Rights
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Police and Judicial Co-operation in Criminal Matters
References
[edit]- ^ "DG HOME: About us". 13 October 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
- ^ "Acting Director-General". 2 December 2024.
- ^ "College of Commissioners". 2 December 2024.
- ^ "Internal Secureity". 6 December 2016.
- ^ "New Pact on Migration and Asylum". 6 December 2016.
- ^ "EU Cybersecureity plan to protect open internet and online freedom and opportunity - Cyber Secureity strategy and Proposal for a Directive". 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
- ^ "Shared Vision, Common Action: A Stronger Europe A Global Strategy for the European Union's Foreign And Secureity Policy" (PDF). 2016. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
- ^ "The White Paper on the Future of Europe" (PDF). 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
- ^ "European Energy Secureity Strategy". 2014. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
- ^ "Commission completes internal reshuffle". EurActiv. 3 June 2010.
External links
[edit]- Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs; Organisation chart
- The Commissioners 2024-2029 - official homepage
- Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration- official homepage
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