On 1 December 2019, the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights will
celebrate its 10th anniversary since it became legally binding, with the
entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty on 1 December 2009. To mark this
anniversary, the European Commission, together with the Finnish
Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the European Union
Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), is holding a conference
tomorrow, with the aim of looking at how to improve the use and
awareness of the Charter to bringing it to life for citizens in the EU.
Indeed, the Charter upholds and protects core European values, which are
reflected across all the EU's legal and policy initiatives, such as the
General Data Protection Regulation and the new rules to protect victims
of crime and whistleblowers, and is an essential tool in making sure
that people's fundamental rights are promoted and protected.
Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, Věra Jourová, stated: “We
have been and we will continue working towards a culture of fundamental
rights in the EU. All the actors in the Charter's enforcement chain
have a role to play in making it truly effective in people's lives. The
conference is a timely occasion to feed into the Commission's
reflections ahead of a new Charter Strategy.” Member States
authorities, judges, policy makers, law enforcement bodies, legal
practitioners and representatives of National Human Rights Institutions,
Equality bodies, ombuds-institutions and civil society organisations
will all be at the conference to share their views. The outcome of
tomorrow's conference will feed into a new Strategy on the Charter,
which the Commission is expecting to publish in 2020. More information
is available in the press release here. (For more information: Christian Spahr – Tel.: +32 229 50055; Athina Reuter – Tel.: +32 229 82390)
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*Ulla Neergaard*, Professor of EU Law, University of Copenhagen
*Photo credit*: Gordon Leggett, via Wikimedia Commons
*This contribution draws...
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