In brief: the 2014 bloc opt-out and selective opt-back-ins
This note, prepared for the parliamentary debate on 15 July 2013, looks briefly at the current situation regarding the UK's 2014 decision on justice and home affairs measures and lists the 35 measures the Government would like to opt back into.
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Briefing
The Government has said it intends to exercise its EU Treaty option of opting out of all police and criminal justice measures and Schengen measures that remain unamended since the Lisbon Treaty came into force in December 2009. It will later opt back into some of these measures selectively.
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