On Friday 25 October, the European Commission published an evaluation report on the European judicial training strategy, based on a 2011 communication setting out objectives to be achieved by 2020. Overall, the evaluation concludes that the objectives were achieved to a large extent between 2011 and 2017.
The objective of ensuring that half of all actors in the EU judicial system have been trained at least once in EU law, i.e., 800,000 legal professionals, has been achieved 2 years ahead of schedule (see EUROPE 12164/9), the Commission welcomes.
This strategy has also made it possible to almost double the Community funds available for the training of legal practitioners, from €14.5 million in 2011 to €27.3 million in 2017, for a total amount of €150 million over the entire period.
Other operational objectives have been achieved to some extent, such as improving national regulatory frameworks and increasing support for legal terminology training, according to the evaluation.
The report also highlights the need to improve relations with certain categories of legal professionals and geographical areas, as well as to focus more on issues such as the rule of law and fundamental rights.
The evaluation, which will serve as a basis for a post-2020 strategy for judicial training in Europe, is available at: http://bit.ly/2NfdfeG (Original version in French by Marion Fontana)