SECTORAL POLICIES / Justice

Commission is meeting its target of training 800,000 justice professionals on EU law

Brussels, 20/12/2018 (Agence Europe)

In 2017, 188,000 justice professionals were trained on EU law, according to the 2018 edition of the European Commission's report on European judicial training, published on Thursday 20 December. 

A number that allows the Commission to reach two years ahead of its target set in 2011 of ensuring that half of all practitioners in the EU judicial system will have been trained at least once on EU law by 2020, or 800,000 justice professionals (see EUROPE 10452). In 2017, the EU co-financed...