The Stockholm Programme is a multi-annual (2009-2014) strategic document which aims to provide a roadmap for EU work in the area of freedom, security and justice in Europe. The European Parliament's own initiative report has now been adopted, assessing the achievements made so far and detailing the actions still to be undertaken.
The most relevant point was that follow up of the Stockholm programme should no longer be undertaken by the Council alone, but ‘in the spirit of the Lisbon Treaty, in a joint exercise of Parliament, the Council and the Commission’. Other crucial points were the inclusion of the evaluation of criminal justice in the justice scoreboard.