Self-learning Materials

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.

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 Nature Protection Law – Focus on Site Protection.

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 Nature Protection Law – Focus on Species Protection.

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 Waste Law. This training module will also assist national judges as well as national prosecutors to apply the relevant EU instruments in detail.

This training material provides an in-depth exploration of the European Arrest Warrant (EAW), a central instrument in the development of judicial cooperation in criminal matters within the European Union. The content examines its legal foundations, the principle of mutual recognition, procedural safeguards, and the interaction with broader frameworks of European judicial cooperation.

This course consists of 10 E-Training Modules developed by EIPA, which tackle specific cross-cutting needs and common challenges faced by end-users of the European Arrest Warrant (EAW).

Aimed at European legal practitioners, the handbook sums up the vast experience gained over the past more than 20 years of using the EAW in the European Union. It also provides a series of tips and recommendations to help legal practitioners when they issue or execute EAWs and it helps them through every step of the surrender procedure.

The training materials were conceived in a way to be used in the context of a 1.5-day seminar. Three case studies per topic were drafted by renowned EU experts. Each case study encompasses the case scenario, the suggested solution and some methodological advice for using the case. The following topics are covered: Brussels Ia Regulation, European Payment Order, European Small Claims Procedure, European Enforcement Order. Developed with the financial support of the Civil Justice Programme of the European Union.

This course introduces the European Investigation Order (EIO) as a key tool for cross-border judicial cooperation. Participants will explore the legal framework, mutual recognition principles, and practical application of Directive 2014/41/EU, gaining the skills to handle requests, safeguard rights, and ensure compliance with EU and national standards.

The European Judicial Network in civil and commercial matters proposes the following general good practices, which aim at facilitating the data collection for existing and future instruments.

The ENTraNCE project has led to the publication of several working papers. These working papers include the case notes written by training participants, summarising national judgements in the field of EU competition law.