The document will be signed in Vienna on Friday, 13 January, by EUROPOL director Peter Ratzel and Croatia Interior Minister Ivica Kirin. Also present at the signing will be a Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Justice and the Interior, Gianfranco Frattini, Austrian Interior Minister Liese Prokop, and Croatian Justice Minister Vesna Skare Ozbolt.
The agreement will be signed during a meeting of EU ministers of justice and the interior, to be held on January 12-14 in the capital of Austria which is the current chair of the EU.