In 2011 the EU Council (EFSA 2020) formed the ambition to
create a European Forensic Science Area by 2020 in which routine
forensic processes for the collection, processing, use and delivery
of forensic data will be based on equivalent minimum forensic
science standards, and in which forensic service providers will
work on the basis of a common approach to implement these
standards that foster closer cooperation between them and
criminal justice systems.
Member States and the Commission works together to make
progress in the following areas: