DEVELOPMENT OF JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS COOPERATION BETWEEN 2004 AND 2009 IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
DEVELOPMENT OF JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS COOPERATION BETWEEN 2004 AND 2009 IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

Summary/Abstract: The so-called ’enlargement process’ was an essential factor between 2004 and 2005 in the development of the European Union, the result of which was that in 2004 ten new Member States and in 2007 two other Members States joined the EU. The enlargement process, which increased the number of the Member States from 15 to 27, unlike the previous enlargements, was based on a more refined set of criteria1 and a more structured preparation period.2 In the area of justice and home affairs cooperation it meant the systematic screening of the legislation of the applicant countries, which ensured the full transposition of the EU acquis at the date of the accession. The enlargement although implied that as well that the justice and home affairs cooperation in the area of the implementation of freedom, security and justice must be achieved through paying regard to the peculiarities of 27 jurisdictions, which presents a great challenge to the European Union and the Member States and requires the creation of new forms of the justice and home affairs cooperation and of their legal grounds. The present paper aims to give an overview on the processes and changes in the area of justice and home affairs cooperation in the European Union from the date of the accession of Hungary3 to the European Union, that is, in the past 5 years.

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