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Initial and continuous training in EU law becoming major priority

12-Oct-2011

The European Commission is making the consolidation of legal practitioners’ knowledge of EU law, including that of notaries, a priority in order to deal with legal questions in the best way possible. This observation comes from the European Commission’s communication of 13 September 2011 ‘Building trust in EU-wide justice - A new dimension to European judicial training’.

In order to achieve this aim, the majority of legal practitioners (judges, prosecutors, notaries, lawyers and court staff) will have to undertake initial and continuous training in EU law.

The results of a consultation requested by the Commission in 2010 showed that over half of judges and prosecutors, like other legal practitioners, had never taken training, despite being confronted increasingly with EU law.

The Commission plans a series of measures for the initial and continuous training of all the members of the legal professions, such as a compulsory period spent abroad, the consolidation of the European e-Justice portal, measures to strengthen language knowledge, encouragement to set up and improve the existing legal networks leading to joint cooperation, also in the field of initial and continuous training.

The Commission has an objective: by 2010, half of the legal practitioners in the European Union must have participated in initial and continuous training. The CNUE also plans to cooperate in the context of its team of ENN experts in charge of the ‘training’ section.

More information is available here.
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