The Justice and Home Affairs Agencies’ Network, known also under its short name ‘JHAA Network’, has an important role to play in Europe. It connects the EU agencies protecting the area of freedom, security and justice. Together the agencies in the network contribute to the implementation of EU’s objectives in the fields of migration, asylum and external border management, the fight against organised crime, drug trafficking and terrorism, gender equality, and respect of fundamental rights. They also facilitate the functioning of relevant EU’s IT systems, contribute to EU activities on drugs and drugs addiction and facilitate law-enforcement training.
The JHAA Network includes nine agencies:
- European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL),
- the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA),
- European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE),
- European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA),
- European Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT systems in the area of freedom, security and justice (eu-LISA),
- European Union´s Judicial Cooperation Unit (Eurojust),
- European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol),
- European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA),
- European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex).
The
final report on the activities of the Justice and Home Affairs Agencies Network
in 2021, under Frontex chairmanship, is available under this link along
with the assessment of the Network’s achievements and working methods
