The Civil Law activities aim to strengthen EU justice professionals by offering seminars in civil judicial cooperation and in a vast scope of civil law subjects (such as family law, company law, IP law, tort law, property law, commercial law and contract law).
The Civil Law portfolio gathers practitioners from different European Union Members aiming at developing a training scheme for judges, prosecutors and court staff interested in Civil Matters.
The Civil Law trainings offer the chance to learn more about legal framework, best practices, latest CJEU case law. Each training is also an opportunity to experience the new skills acquired via the workshops provided during each event and interact with peers and exchange ideas and practices.
The Civil Law activities, launched in 2011, aim to strengthen judicial training in civil justice cooperation among EU justice professionals. The Civil Law events aim to improve judicial cooperation in civil law matters and focuses on the participating countries’ legal systems and judicial culture as well as the main aspects of EU law.
The Civil Law training events are open to judges and prosecutors across all EU Member States. The events cover a vast scope of civil law subjects, including these topics:
Over the past nine years, 43 Civil Law seminars have been held and over 2000 judges have been trained in various civil law topics. Several trainings have been broadcast live as webinars and subsequently transformed into podcasts.
The group with the support of the EJTN Secretariat had to react in a quick manner to the challenges and Europe wide restrictions imposed as results of the COVID 19 epidemic.
After an intense period of preparations, the Civil Law sub-working group revised its training curricula and implemented numerous training in a shorter and comprehensive form of a webinars.
In 2021, the Civil Law project organized a total of 14 events, out of which 10 trainings and 4 webinars. The training were open to magistrates and court staff from the member states and it gathered 351 participants.
| Reference | Topic | Dates | Venue |
| CI/2023/01 | Insolvency Law | 8-9 November | Trier, Germany |
| CI/2023/02 | Jurisdiction and applicable law in civil and commercial matters: Brussels Ia, Rome I and Rome II | 13 – 14 March | Romania, Bucharest |
| CI/2023/03 | Protection of Consumers in the light of the EU Law and E-Commerce | 20-21 April | Spain, Barcelona |
| CI/2023/04 | European Civil Procedure | 21-22 February | Riga, Latvia |
| CI/2023/05 | Civil liability due to AI | 25-26 May | Napoli, Italy |
| CI/2023/06 | Mediation and Conciliation | 20-21 June | Thessaloniki, Greece |
| CI/2023/07 | Service of documents & taking of evidence abroad with a focus on digitalization | 18-19 May | Zagreb, Croatia |
| CI/2023/08 | Cross-border Labour Law | 18-19 October | Thessaloniki, Greece |
| CI/2023/09 | European Civil Procedure in Family Law matters – advanced | 2-3 November | Pirna, Germany |
| CI/2023/10 | Company Law | 23-24 November | Brussels, Belgium |
| CI/2023/11 | Special types of contract | TBC | EJTN online |
| CI/2023/12 | Collective redress in consumer protection | TBC | EJTN Online |
For any queries regarding the Civil Law Project, please contact Mr Daniel Graur at the EJTN Secretariat: daniel.graur@ejtn.eu