3rd Justice and home affairs agencies network meeting, Den Haag - Main contents
| date | September 25, 2019 - September 26, 2019 |
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| city | Den Haag |
| location | The Hague, Netherlands  |
| organisation | European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) i |
The Justice and home affairs agencies (JHA) network has an important role to play in Europe. Their work helps ensure that the EU is well equipped to deal with security, justice, fundamental rights, and gender equality. The agencies work on a wide range of important areas, including migration and border management, drug trafficking and combating organised crime, human trafficking; and gender equality. Since these areas have a lot in common, the network was established to make use of the synergies and share information.
The network includes 9 EU agencies: CEPOL, EASO, EIGE, EMCDDA, eu-LISA, Eurojust, Europol, FRA and Frontex. The JHA agencies take turns in chairing the network. Europol is the chair in 2019.
The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) is the hub of drug-related information in the European Union. Its role is to gather, analyse and disseminate ‘factual, objective, reliable and comparable information’ on drugs and drug addiction and, in so doing, provide its audiences with a sound and evidence-based picture of the drug phenomenon at European level.
Among the Centre’s target groups are policy-makers, who use this information to help formulate coherent national and Community drug strategies. Also served are professionals and researchers working in the drugs field and, more broadly, the European media and general public.