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The Standards respond directly to increasing political interference and government overreach affecting the judiciary. Judicial independence is not merely a principle; it is the cornerstone of a functioning democracy, ensuring fair trials, safeguarding human rights, and maintaining public trust in legal institutions. Developed through extensive consultation with judges, legal scholars, and key stakeholders, these 38 Standards offer a robust framework for assessing and protecting judicial independence across diverse legal systems in Europe. They complement existing international instruments, adapting them to the unique features of European judiciaries and career-based judicial systems.

This product is available after registration to the CEPOL LEEd platform . Please see the below Registration Guide for details. Aim: To give users a broad understanding of the European Multidisciplinary Platform Against Criminal Threats (EMPACT) for Organised and Serious...

Linguistic manual developed by Prof Eva Samaniego Fernández, including language exercises on legal terminology. Developed with the financial support of the Justice Programme 2014-2020 of the European Union.

Linguistic manual developed by Prof Eva Samaniego Fernández, including language exercises on legal terminology. Developed with the financial support of the Justice Programme 2014-2020 of the European Union.

The e-Presentations offer compact updates on the latest in EU law. The annual subscription gives you access both to our back catalogue of over 65 e-Presentations and to at least 6 new e-presentations every year on the latest developments in EU Asylum and Immigration Law. Each e-presentation lasts on average 35 minutes. Key topics covered include:

The e-Presentations offer compact updates on the latest in EU law. The annual subscription gives you access both to our back catalogue of over 75 e-Presentations and to at least 15 new e-presentations every year on the latest developments in EU Banking and Financial Markets Law. Each e-presentation lasts on average 35 minutes. Key topics covered include:

The e-Presentations offer compact updates on the latest in EU law. The annual subscription gives you access both to our back catalogue of over 64 e-Presentations and to at least 8 new e-presentations every year on the latest developments in Competition, Public Procurement & State Aid Law. Each e-presentation lasts on average 35 minutes. Key topics covered include:

The e-Presentations offer compact updates on the latest in EU law. The annual subscription gives you access both to our back catalogue of over 33 e-Presentations and to at least 6 new e-presentations every year on the latest developments in EU Data Protection Law. Each e-presentation lasts on average 35 minutes. Key topics covered include: Data Subject Rights GDPR Recent Case Law in EU Data Protection Law International data transfers

The e-Presentations offer compact updates on the latest in EU law. The annual subscription gives you access both to our back catalogue of over 65 e-Presentations and to at least 6 new e-presentations every year on the latest developments in EU Intellectual Property Law. Each e-presentation lasts on average 35 minutes. Key topics covered include:

The two European anti-discrimination directives adopted under Article 19 TFEU (Directive 2000/43 and Directive 2000/78) prohibit all forms of discrimination based on race or ethnic origin as well as all forms of discrimination in employment and occupation based on religion or convictions, handicap, age or sexual orientation.

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) is an important legal tool for promoting the human rights of people with disabilities. The Convention elaborates and clarifies existing obligations, providing within a single text the accepted global legal standards on disability rights. It recognises that equality, dignity, autonomy, independence, accessibility and inclusion are key to ensuring that people with disabilities are able to enjoy the same human rights across the world.

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 EU Environmental Assessment Law – Focus on Environmental Assessment Law and Strategic Environmental Assessment Directives.

The European Union Fundamental Rights Information System (EFRIS) brings together information on human rights commitments and compliance of the 27 EU Member States, and Albania, North Macedonia and Serbia, which are EU candidate countries that participate in FRA’s work as observers. EFRIS is being constantly developed and feedback is welcome at efris@fra.europa.eu.

The principle of equality between women and men has been part of EU law since the signing of the Treaty of Rome in 1957. Since then, a considerable body of legislation has been adopted on matters such as equal treatment in employment and occupation, health protection in the context of maternity, parental leave or access to goods and services.

In a digital age with growing international trade within a more borderless European Community, the need to obtain evidence in other jurisdictions is central to ensuring real and timely justice in transborder civil cases. Practices and rules established more than a century ago for the sharing of information between different jurisdictions, each following different legal traditions, must be updated and reconciled to face today’s reality.

While a more borderless and digital European Union can lead to greater overall stability and prosperity, these same factors result in criminal activity that increasingly has a transnational nature. This reality challenges the largely territorial practices and procedures to investigate and prosecute criminal activity within individual Member States. The mutual legal assistance systems to share evidence in criminal cases established more than a century ago remain important, but new EU investigative tools must be updated to face today’s reality in a manner consistent with rule of law.

The rule of law is fundamental to the European Union, and judicial independence is fundamental to the rule of law. Despite this basic premise, challenges to the independence of the judiciaries in Central and Eastern Europe and elsewhere over the past decade threaten this core principle of the European Union. At the European level, there is an emerging jurisprudence at both the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union, which are taking important steps toward protecting the fundamental principle of the rule of law. While traditionally allowing a margin for different approaches to observe this principle within national judicial systems, this growing European jurisprudence is both shaping and refining the range of permitted approaches while providing increasing guidance to EU Member States on what approaches are consistent with a basic European understanding of judicial independence.

The training module addresses judges dealing with environmental issues (mainly administrative judges) with previous general, and in certain cases specific, knowledge regarding the subject. The module will provide judges 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 the IED and its new elements. This training module will also assist national judges to apply, in detail, the relevant EU instruments.

True access to justice at European Union level is only possible if citizens and companies are represented by lawyers who are competent and effective in their submissions to the Court of Justice of the European Union. The training materials resulting from this project will increase the level of lawyers’ knowledge of the proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union. Developed with the support of the Justice Programme 2014-2020 of the European Union.