UROŠ PENA, BRANISLAV PAVLOVIĆ: "REGIONAL POLICE COOPERATION"

Abstract

With the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon2, on December 1, 2009, one of the main goals of the European Union is to establish an area of ​​freedom, security and justice without internal borders, prevention and suppression of crime3. The Treaty of Lisbon, which entered into force after the failure of the Constitutional Treaty, brought, inter alia, the integration of the third pillar of the European Union into European Community law. After 1997 and the Treaty of Amsterdam, the third pillar of the European Union referred only to police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters (Chapter VI of the Treaty on European Union). With the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, the third pillar was moved to Chapter V. (Area of ​​Freedom, Security and Justice) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. All "policies of justice and internal affairs" are included under this chapter: asylum, migration, border control, judicial cooperation in criminal matters, judicial cooperation in civil matters, border control, organized crime, cooperation in the field of combating the illegal drug trade, terrorism and police cooperation. In a normative sense, it is important that the Treaty of Lisbon changes the procedure for adopting legal acts of the European Union, which ultimately leads to the transformation of the criminal law of the European Union from an international area to a supranational area.