Mugaz haraindiko europar politika askatasun, segurtasun eta justizia eremuan

Abstract

This present work does an overview over the origin, configuration and evolution of the area of freedom, security and justice since the Treaty of Amsterdam to the just passed Treaty of Lisbon. This review allows us to show that from its inception this area had a notorious and progessive vocation or legal leaning towards «supranationality» to the detriment of «intergubernamentality». And secondly, it analyzes the policy on cross-border surveillance by the Community institutions. It is one policy with an undoubtable significance within this area of freedom, security and justice because it is an area with no internal borders which responds to the objective of guranteeing the free movement of persons, and in order to do so it must adopt some measures of support which reinforce the external borders.

Keywords

• area of freedom
• security and justice
• free movement of persons and cross-border surveillance
• intergubernamentality
• supranationality