The directive on the right of access to a lawyer has not been fully implemented in Cyprus, the Directive on the right to legal aid has had the biggest impact on the national system, and the Directive on the right to presumption of innocence has had the lowest impact.

The training module addresses judges and prosecutors dealing with environmental issues with previous general, and in certain cases specific, knowledge regarding the subject. The module will provide judges and prosecutors with relevant information on the latest developments of the EU environmental law acquis, relevant jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the EU and an in-depth analysis of the topic with a special focus on Participatory and Procedural Rights in Environmental Matters.

The fourth and last training module on alternatives to detention for migrant children provides participants with better knowledge of how to communicate and work with children subject to alternatives to detention.

The three directives helped the Spanish system to improve and fix some of its shortcomings, despite the fact that only the directive on the right to access to a lawyer has been formally implemented through legislative reform in 2015.

The result of the EC project ‘CJEU Hearings’ Recording as a Judicial Training Tool’, co-organised with the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) are six practical, hands-on individual training videos available on EU Academy (https://academy.europa.eu/courses/cjeu-training-videos) for self-learning or reuse in national training activities.

These five web-based training videos illustrate the communication processes and management strategies required for effective communication through an interpreter. The videos (of an interpreted police interview, a legal consultation and a court hearing) indicate good practices and potential pitfalls in working with interpreters, in a user-friendly format.

Qu'est-ce que le réseau judiciaire européen en matière civile et commerciale (RJECC) ? Quelles sont ses missions ? Comment saisir le réseau en tant que magistrat, greffier, ou praticien du droit ? Explications avec un exemple concret de dossier transfrontière en matière civile et commerciale.

The third module provides participants with the international and EU legal frameworks on economic, social and cultural rights of migrants. It examines the scope of economic, social and cultural rights, their sources and how they are achieved. The module allows participants to learn about the obligations of states in regard to economic, social and cultural rights, as well as the justiciability of such rights.

None of the three EU directives has been properly and fully implemented in the Polish legal system. At least the transposition process made possible the creation of new legal qualities, which brought the Polish legal system closer to the EU pattern.

Infosheets on the application in Cyprus, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Spain of the following EU procedural rights directives: Directive 2013/48/EU (right of access to a lawyer); directive (EU) 2016/343 (right to be presumed innocent); and directive (EU) 2016/1919 (right to legal aid).