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 the training of 27,259 people.
The report confirms the upward trend in the number of practitioners trained on EU law. It also points out that participation in such training varies according to professions and Member States. While the participation of judges and prosecutors in European training courses is stable, that of lawyers, notaries and persons working in the Courts of Justice varies each year.
The European Commission will publish in 2019 its evaluation on the strategy on judicial training set in 2011. See the report: https://bit.ly/2V00Tuj. (Original version in French by Marion Fontana)