Internal Security Fund: instrument for financial support for police cooperation, preventing and combating crime, and crisis management 2014-2020

The Council held a first exchange of views on the Commission proposals in the justice and home affairs area in the context of the multiannual financial framework (2014-2020):

• a regulation laying down general provisions on the Asylum and Migration Fund and on the instrument for financial support for police cooperation, preventing and combating crime, and crisis management;
• two regulations establishing, as part of the Internal Security Fund, the instrument for financial support for – external borders and visas; police cooperation, preventing and combating crime and crisis management;
• a regulation establishing the Asylum and Migration Fund.

On the justice side, the Council discussed the two proposals for regulations establishing the Justice programme and the Rights and Citizenship programme.