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European Centre for Judges and Lawyers

European Centre for Judges and Lawyers. EIPA Antenna Luxembourg Director, Peter Goldschmidt (DK). EIPA. Founded in 1981 by the then EEC Member States as a Dutch non-profit foundation

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European Centre for Judges and Lawyers

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  1. European Centre for Judges and Lawyers EIPA Antenna Luxembourg Director, Peter Goldschmidt (DK)

  2. EIPA • Founded in 1981 by the then EEC Member States as a Dutch non-profit foundation • Mission: To support European integration through training, consultancy, research and other capacity building services • Stakeholders and clients: governments, administrations, judiciaries and EU institutions • Staff: ca. 140 resident staff, of which ca. 60 are faculty members = multi-national, multi-disciplinary academics and practioners (incl. national secondees)

  3. EIPA Board of Governors • Fields of expertise:EU decision-making, EU policies and law, EU public management and budgetary issues, the regions and the EU, the regional integration processes including enlargement

  4. European Centre for Judges and Lawyers • Established in 1992 with the aim to provide research and training in the field of EC Law • Objectives Today:Within EIPA’s overall Mission, to enhance • understanding of European Union Law, • approximation, application and enforcement of same at EU and national level, and • administration and quality of Justice • Staff in 2009: 16 staff members, of which 8 are faculty members: multinational, multidisciplinary academics and practitioners with studies and/or practical experience on EU legal or court administration issues

  5. European Centre for Judges and Lawyers • Activities • Law enforcement and judicial co-operation in civil and criminal matters • EU institutional and legal frame-works, law-making procedures and fundamental legal principles • Practical interpretation, application and enforcement of EU law, including law approximation, good administrative structures, co-ordination, procedures and practices; • CJEU/GC procedures and the Infringement procedure • Administration of justice, i.e. the organisation, structures and administration of courts as well as managerial and inter-personal skills of judges, prosecutors and other court officials • Horizontal and special programmes: Master programmes (MELS and MEIR), Preparation for EPSO Competitions, Train-the-Trainers, etc.

  6. European Centre for Judges and Lawyers • Current in-house fields of expertise include • The Four Freedoms and Internal Market law • EU Intellectual Property Rights, Financial and Competition law • Consumer Protection and Food law • Environmental law • Freedom, Justice and Security Affairs (judicial co-operation, ADR, law enforcement co-operation, etc.) • EU Legal Procedures (e.g. the infringement procedure) and CJEU Procedural Law • Introduction of CAF in relations to the media for the judiciary and Training-of-Trainers • Enlargement, Approximation of Law and National Co-ordination • Various Horizontal Programmes (e.g. legal aspects of the Lisbon Treaty, EU law for Non-lawyers, Enlargement)

  7. European Centre for Judges and Lawyers Current major contracts • Framework Contract with DG Environment to train judges and trainers-of-judges in EC environmental law (in co-operation with Unit 3) • Annual Multi-Country Conventions with the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign Affairs providing training of officials and judiciaries in the West-Balkan states and Turkey • “ReSPA” - Regional School of Public Administration (in co-operation with Unit 2) • European Institute of Romania (EIR) – pilot project on joint delivery of training activities for Romanian officials • Framework contract with DG Freedom, Security and Justice on submission of proposals in the field of judicial co-operation in criminal matters (currently in-active) • Grundtvig Project on development of a 3 month e-learning course on European Integration and selected policy areas for non-lawyers

  8. Project Objectives The Law Approximation Process: Practical Aspects • WHAT needs to be approximated ? • HOW to ensure correct approximation ? • identifying approximation requirements • tables of concordance • administrative requirements and processes • WHO does what ? • co-ordination • Experiences and Update

  9. Introductions and Participation • This is your seminar, so please participate actively in all phases of the seminar by: • Contributing as much as you can • Asking questions and inviting comments • Giving and taking constructive feedback • Challenging ideas, not people • Keeping the discussion focused • Adhering to appropriate confidentiality • Respecting time

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