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Co-funded by the Justice Programme 2014-2020
of the European Union
Academy of European Law
https://court-staff.legaltraining.eu/
COURT STAFF TRAINING PROJECT
BETTER APPLYING EUROPEAN
CROSS-BORDER PROCEDURES
Series of interactive legal and language training events
for court staff in Europe
The Project Objectives
Under the Justice Programme 2014-2020, ERA is • Creating a standardised training package,
implementing in partnership with the European Judicial consisting of practical case studies and a manual
Training Network (EJTN) and the support of 23 national on legal terminology in English, for setting up
judicial training institutions from 19 Member States, a interactive seminars in the specific area of cross-
pilot project tackling the deficiencies of court staff training border civil litigation for court staff;
on European law. • Implementing a series of 20 legal seminars and
The project will tackle gaps in training on EU law for 13 language training events around Europe,
court staff by developing standardised training materials aimed at approximately 930 court staff;
in the area of EU civil law and by organising a series • Developing both legal and linguistic skills of
of training activities addressed exclusively to court staff court staff members and strengthening their
from all over Europe. competences in order to facilitate cross-border
communication and cooperation;
• Bringing together court staff training providers
Approach from 19 different EU Member States and
providing them with a platform for exchange of
In order to familiarise court staff with the relevant EU
best practices, sharing information and know-
acquis and to increase their confidence in their future
how;
using of the available legal instruments and procedures,
it is essential: • Ensuring a widespread future use of the training
package by making it available in various official
• To identify the court staff’s specific training needs; languages of the EU and by distributing it to all
• To provide interactive and well-structured training; interested stakeholders.
• To improve the court staff’s English communication
skills.
Methodology
Although there is a wide variety of training needs on EU The training materials for the provision of legal training
law for court staff, this project will focus on an area with will mainly consist of case studies covering the
particular practical relevance for their work, namely the abovementioned EU instruments. The materials will
European cross-border civil procedures. The following focus on tasks relevant to the work of court staff and
instruments will be covered: be as basic and practical as possible. The case studies
will be drafted in English and translated into French and
• Brussels Ia Regulation German right upon their finalisation. For the provision
• European Enforcement Order of language training a manual on legal terminology in
• European Payment Order English including language exercises will be developed.
• European Small Claims Procedure The exercises will focus on developing four skills:
• Service of documents
reading, writing, speaking and listening.
• Taking of evidence
Calendar of activities
Coordinating meeting FINLAND
Trier, 10-12 April 2019 Ministry of Justice
Language: English; Event number: 119DT23 Helsinki, 7-8 November 2019
Language: Finnish
Legal seminars
The 20 legal seminars will have a duration of 1.5 days Ministry of Justice
and will be addressed to max. 30 participants each. Helsinki, March 2021
The training will be based on introductory face-to- Language: Finnish
face presentations and the solving of the developed
HUNGARY
case studies. Each seminar will deal with one of the
National Office for the Judiciary
following topics:
Budapest, 24-25 February 2020
Language: Hungarian
• Cross-border civil litigation: facilitating the
handling of cross-border cases
ITALY
• Cross-border enforcement of civil law claims:
School for the Judiciary (SSM)
simplified European procedures
Scandicci, 25-26 November 2019
Language: Italian
Pan-European legal seminar
Cross-border enforcement of civil law claims:
POLAND
simplified European procedures
National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution
Open to court staff from all EU Member States
(KSSiP)
Brussels, 3-4 December 2020
Lublin, 26-27 November 2019
Language: English; Event no.: 120DT16
Language: Polish
Interested court staff will be able to register using the PORTUGAL
online registration form available on the event page. Ministry of Justice – Directorate-General for
Participation fee: € 250 the Administration of Justice (DGAJ)
Lisbon, 11-12 May 2020
Accommodation: The participation fee includes Language: Portuguese
maximum 2 nights at the hotel booked by ERA.
Travel: Selected court staff will receive a significant ROMANIA
contribution to their travel costs upon receipt of the National School of Clerks
original invoices, tickets and receipts. Participants are Barlad, 18-19 November 2019
asked to arrange their own travel. Language: Romanian
SLOVENIA
National legal seminars
Ministry of Justice, Judicial Training Centre
Seminars on “Cross-border civil litigation:
Ljubljana, 15-16 October 2020
facilitating the handling of cross-border cases”
Language: Slovenian
BULGARIA
National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
Sofia, 19-20 April 2021
Language: BulgarianCalendar of activities
National legal seminars
(continuation)
Seminars on “Cross-border
enforcement of civil law
claims: simplified European
procedures”
LATVIA BELGIUM
AUSTRIA
Judicial Training Centre (LJTC) Belgian Judicial Training Institute
Federal Ministry of Constitutional
Riga, 5-6 March 2020 (IGO-IFJ)
Affairs, Reforms, Deregulation and
Language: Latvian Brussels, 25-26 March 2020
Justice
Topic: tbd
Schwechat, 14-15 November
LITHUANIA Language: French
2019
National Courts Administration
Language: German
Vilnius, 19-20 April 2021
Language: Lithuanian
CROATIA
Judicial Academy
THE NETHERLANDS
Zagreb, 18-19 February 2021
Dutch Training and Study Centre
Language: Croatian
for the Judiciary (SSR)
Utrecht, 15-16 April 2020
GERMANY
Language: Dutch
Ministry of Justice,
Baden-Wuerttemberg
ROMANIA
Schwetzingen, 17-18 February
National School of Clerks
2020
Barlad, 1-2 October 2020
Language: German
Language: Romanian
Judicial Academy of North Rhine-
SPAIN
Westphalia
Centre for Legal Studies (CEJ)
Recklinghausen, 2020
Madrid, 25-26 May 2020
Language: German
Language: Spanish
Participation conditions
Registration Participation fee
Participation is on selection. Participation in the national legal seminars is free
Interested court staff may register via their of charge.
respective national training institutions.Calendar of activities
Legal English training events on
European cross-border procedures
In parallel to the organisation of the purely legal The legal training will be conducted by three legal
seminars, a series of 13 English language training experts and the linguistic training by two professional
events will be implemented. Each event will have a linguists: all experts will have at their disposal the
duration of three days in total and will be addressed training materials (case studies & linguistic manual)
to maximum 26 court staff from various EU Member specially developed for the implementation of these
States. training events.
Zagreb, Croatia Bucharest, Romania Krakow, Poland
Date: 21-24 October 2019 Date: 23-26 March 2020 Date: November 2020
Event number: 119DT25 Event number: 120DT11 Event number: 120DT15
Vilnius, Lithuania Scandicci, Italy Budapest, Hungary
Date: 11-14 November 2019 Date: May 2020 Date: 26-29 January 2021
Event number: 119DT26 Event number: 120DT12 Event number: 121DT04
Sofia, Bulgaria Helsinki, Finland Lisbon, Portugal
Date: 2-5 December 2019 Date: 8-11 June 2020 Date: 8-11 March 2021
Event number: 119DT27 Event number: 120DT13 Event number: 121DT05
Brussels, Belgium Utrecht, The Netherlands Schwechat, Austria
Date: 20-23 January 2020 Date: 19-22 October 2020 Date: 3-6 May 2021
Event number: 120DT10 Event number: 120DT14 Event number: 121DT06
Riga, Latvia
Date: 7-10 June 2021
Event number: 121DT07
Participation conditions
Registration Accommodation
Participation is on selection. Participants should Accommodation for 3 nights will be booked by the
have a working knowledge of English. organisers.
Interested court staff may register via their
respective national training institutions. Travel
Selected court staff will receive a significant
Participation fee contribution to their travel costs upon receipt of the
Participation in the Legal English training events is original invoices, tickets and receipts. Participants
free of charge. are asked to arrange their own travel.Expected results
By the end of the project’s lifetime, the following results will be achieved:
• 33 training events for court staff organised throughout Europe;
• 927 court staff trained on EU civil law instruments;
• 6 sets of case studies and 1 linguistic manual developed;
• translation of the case studies in (partly) 16 EU languages;
• 1 webpage including all project’s deliverables.
Project webpage
If you are interested in more information about the seminar series or would like to have free access to the
specially developed training materials, please visit our project webpage under the following link:
https://court-staff.legaltraining.eu/
The content of the webpage will be updated regularly.
The training package in all available language versions will be added after the implementation of the
planned seminar series.
Contact
Anastasia Patta
Course Director
Tel.: +49 651 93737-112
E-mail: APatta@era.intPartner
European Judicial Training Network (EJTN)
Supporting organisations
Ministry of Justice and Consumer
Austria
Protection, Rhineland Palatinate
Federal Ministry of Constitutional Affairs,
Reforms, Deregulation and Justice
Hungary
Belgium National Office for the Judiciary (NOJ)
Judicial Training Institute (IGO-IFJ)
Italy
Bulgaria
School for the Judiciary
National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
Latvia
Foundation European School of
Judicial Training Centre (LTMC)
Enforcement (ESE)
Lithuania
Croatia
National Courts Administration (NCA)
Judicial Academy
The Netherlands
Czech Republic
Training and Study Centre for the
Judicial Academy
Judiciary (SSR)
Estonia
Poland
Supreme Court
National School of Judiciary and Public
Prosecution (KSSiP)
Finland
Ministry of Justice
Portugal
Ministry of Justice, Directorate General for
France the Administration of Justice (DGAJ)
National School for Clerks (ENG)
Romania
National School of Clerks
Germany
Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer
Protection (BMJV) Slovenia
Ministry of Justice, Judicial Training
Centre
Ministry of Justice of Baden-Wuerttemberg
Spain
Judicial Academy of North Rhine-
Centre for Legal Studies (CEJ)
WestphaliaAcademy of European Law
Metzer Allee 4
D-54295 Trier
56, Avenue des Arts
B-1040 Brussels
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https://court-staff.legaltraining.eu/
Fax +49 651 93737 773
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