Better regulation and easier access to the European legal area through technological developments.

Two round tables and a lunch debate with a number of key figures from the area.

On 27 and 28 November, the last JHA Council under the French Presidency will focus on three subjects: internal security, migration policy and on Friday 28, a session on justice.

On 27 and 28 November, the last JHA Council under the French Presidency will focus on three subjects: internal security, migration policy and on Friday 28, a session on justice.

More than 80 delegations from Europe and Africa met in Paris on 25 November 2008 to draw up a multiannual programme of cooperation for migration and development.

The French Ministry of Justice is bringing together European experts on 25 November to discuss the practices used by Member States to monitor probation orders and sanctions facing youth offenders.

The conference aims to evaluate the sums of money generated by drug trafficking and to improve the tools and practices used to identify, seize and manage criminal assets.

The French Presidency of the Council of the European Union is holding the annual contact points meeting on tackling the trafficking of stolen vehicles on 20 and 21 November.

The FEACT will be held on Thursday 20 and Friday 21 November in the Senate building.

How to prevent crime in urban public spaces?

The Seventh EU-Jordan Association Council will be held in Brussels on 10. November. This meeting will be the occasion to conduct a general review, in the presence of our Jordanian partners, of close, trust-based relations between the EU and Jordan.

The 6th EU-Western Balkans Forum will be held in Zagreb (Croatia) on 6 and 7 November 2008.

On the tenth anniversary of the European judicial network in criminal matters (EJN), the French Ministry of Justice is bringing together all the European players and practitioners involved in judicial cooperation in criminal matters.

The 'Var 2008' exercise is an on the ground test of the provision of help and efficiency of collaboration between the NRBC modules of nine European countries in the event of NRBC terrorist attacks.

On Tuesday 4 November, on the second day of the Vichy conference, Brice Hortefeux, the French Minister of Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Mutually-Supportive Development, obtained the agreement of his 26 European counterparts on a series of commitments for advancing integration.

This third ministerial conference on integration, held on 3 and 4 November in Vichy, brings together the ministers for integration of the 27 EU Member States. Their work builds up on the European Pact on Immigration and Asylum Policy, which already contains important commitments with regard to integration. It was adopted by the European Council on 15 and 16 October 2008.

Since the attacks of 11 September 2001, unconventional, CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear) terrorist threats have become an important cause for concern for states. Preventing and countering this form of terrorist threat is a priority for the European Union and its Member States.

This conference should clarify the concept of territorial cohesion and move forward the debate on the future of the cohesion policy. It is being organised in partnership with the Committee of the Regions and the Commission, with the support of the Association of Regions of France.

The second European Interregional Cooperation Forum, organised in the framework of the INTERREG IVC programme with the support of the French Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, is being held under the French Presidency in Lille on 27 and 28 October 2008. Over 800 national, regional and local authorities from the EU member countries are expected to attend, alongside EU institutions.

This conference brings together the seven presidents of the Outermost European regions - Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Reunion, the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands - representatives of the European Commission and the three Member States concerned, i.e. France, Spain and Portugal, as well as members of the European Parliament. Danuta Hübner, European Commissioner for regional policy will be present and governors of Para and Amapá (Brazil) as well as the Minister for planning, development and cooperation of Surinam will be associated to this meeting.

The Justice and Home Affairs Council of 24th October deals with 'Home Affairs' in the morning and 'Justice' in the afternoon.

On 24 October 2008, the Committee of the Regions and the French Senate will jointly host a conference on subsidiarity at the Palace du Luxembourg, under the auspices of the French Presidency of the Council of the EU.

Michèle Alliot-Marie, the French Minister of the Interior, Overseas France and Territorial Communities, and Rachida Dati, French Minister for Justice and Keeper of the Seals, presided over the Justice and Home Affairs Council that was held on 24 October 2008 in Luxembourg.

The French Ministry of Justice is holding a conference on the topic 'Which European contract law for the European Union?' at the Sorbonne University in Paris on 23rd and 24th October 2008. This conference is also open to interested students.

New technologies linked to the smart card are being developed and generally simplifying relations between citizens and administration.

National drugs coordinators will debate the new ways of consuming alcohol, particularly in the context of poly-consumption, and the communication on illegal drugs.

On 15 and 16 October, the director of criminal affairs and pardons brought together magistrates, criminologists, investigators and lawyers at the Convention Centre in Lyon for a conference on scientific proof in criminal justice.

The Schengen Information System (SIS), a data exchange system, was set up with the purpose of maintaining a security level equivalent to that existing before the removal of checks at internal borders and their transfer to the external borders of the EU. The SIS connects States that apply Schengen cooperation (i.e. almost all European Union Member States and some third countries).

The Ministry of Justice is organising a conference on 'Scientific Proof in Criminal Justice'