The Training of Judges and Legal Practitioners – Ensuring the Full Application of EU Law

Please note: Each In-Depth Analysis is assigned a DOI (digital object identifier), which is a safe and long term way of ensuring a hyperlink to the full text of this report. However, when ESO creates this record, on occasion the DOI still has not been activated by the EU Bookshop. If you find the source url hyperlink does not work please use the alternative location hyperlink listed as a related url.The April 2017 workshop, organised by the Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs of DG Internal Policies of the European Parliament upon request by the Committees on Legal Affairs and on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs of the European Parliament, provides an opportunity to discuss about the training of judges and of other legal professionals in EU law and in the law of other Member States.

The European Commission, in its 2011 Communication on 'Building trust in EU-wide justice', set the objective of enabling half of the legal practitioners in the EU to participate in European judicial training activities by 2020.

The workshop will be an forum to discuss to what extent this objective is being attained, as well as to understand the existing challenges and good practices that have been developed in the training of several categories of legal professionals.

• Primary Source

European Parliament: Directorate-General for Internal Policies of the Union: Publications available via the EU Bookshop http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/directorate-general-for-internal-policies-of-the-union-cbf.cKABstF7wAAAEjwYYY4e5K/

European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: In-Depth Analysis, March 2017: The Training of Judges and Legal Practitioners - Ensuring the Full Application of EU Law http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2017/583134/IPOL_IDA(2017)583134_EN.pdf

ESO: Background information: Council conclusions on Training of legal practitioners: an essential tool to consolidate the EU acquis http://www.europeansources.info/record/council-conclusions-on-training-of-legal-practitioners-an-essential-tool-to-consolidate-the-eu-acquis/

---