The department for Home Affaires 1 deals with:

• Asylum and refugee policy
• Immigration policy
• Integration Policy
• Abolition of checks on persons at the internal borders of the EU member states
• Entry and exit through the external borders of the EU Member States, including the implementation of checks on persons at borders and visa policy

Head of department: Mr. Roy

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The department for Home Affaires 2 deals with:

• Police cooperation between EU Member States
• Counterterrorism
• Civil protection and crisis management
• Data protection
• Cooperation between the parties to the Schengen Agreement in the European Union
• Spatial planning, territorial cohesion, urban development, housing, construction

Head of department: Ms. Katharina Erdmenger

Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community