European Commission: Home Affairs

Adopted legislation

• 24/10/2008 - Council Framework Decision 2008/841/JHA of 24 October 2008 on the fight against organised crime
• 31/07/2008 - Commission Decision 2008/679/JHA of 31 July 2008 on the attribution of action grants for translating and testing a victimisation survey module under the specific programme Prevention of and fight against crime as part of the general programme on security and safeguarding liberties
• 12/02/2007 - Council Decision 2007/125/JHA of 12 February 2007 establishing for the period 2007 to 2013, as part of the General Programme on Security and Safeguarding Liberties, the Specific Programme "Prevention of and Fight against Crime"
• 28/02/2002 - Council Decision 2002/187/JHA of 28 February 2002 setting up Eurojust with a view to reinforcing the fight against serious crime (consolidated version of June 2009)
• 13/04/2000 - European Union action plan on common action for the Russian Federation on combating organised crime

Arms and weapons

• 18/07/2011 - Council Decision 2011/428/CFSP of 18 July 2011 in support of United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs activities to implement the United Nations Programme of Actions to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects
• 02/12/2010 - Council Decision 2010/765/CFSP of 2 December 2010 on EU action to counter the illicit trade of small arms and light weapons (SALW) by air
• 13/01/2006 - EU Strategy to combat illicit accumulation and trafficking of SALW and their ammunition
• 25/02/1993 - Commission Recommendation 93/216/EEC of 25 February 1993 on the European firearms pass (supplementing Recommendation 96/129/EC of 12 January 1996 and complementary Recommendation 2005/11/EC of 28 December 2004)
• 18/06/1991 - Council Directive 91/477/EEC of 18 June 1991 on control of the acquisition and possession of weapons (consolidated version of July 2008)

International conventions

• 31/05/2001 - Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
• 15/11/2000 - United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime

Reports

• 27/07/2010 - Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council - The placing on the market of replica firearms (COM(2010) 404 final)
• 15/12/2000 - Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council - The implementation of Council Directive 91/477/EEC, of 18 June 1991, on control of the acquisition and possession of weapons (COM(2000) 837 final)

Communications

• 22/11/2010 – Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council - The EU Internal Security Strategy in Action: Five steps towards a more secure Europe (COM(2010) 673 final)
• 23/10/2007 - Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on the role of Eurojust and the European Judicial Network in the fight against organised crime and terrorism in the European Union (COM(2007) 644 final)
• 18/07/2005 - Communication from the Commission on measures to ensure greater security in explosives, detonators, bomb-making equipment and fire-arms (COM(2005) 329 final)
• 02/06/2005 - Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament - "Developing a strategic concept on tackling organised crime" (COM(2005) 232 final)

Relevant sites

• Council of Europe
• Eurojust
• Europol (European Organised Crime Threat Assessment OCTA)
• European Judicial Network (EJN)
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
• EU anti-trafficking website