Criminal Justice

EJTN’s Criminal Justice programme offers EU judiciary and court staff tailored training seminars in a wide array areas of EU Criminal Law to enable practitioners to work together across the borders. The seminars adopt a ‘learn-by-doing’ approach in order to ensure practical and lively sessions with real case scenarios, interactive group’ work, simulations and role play games.

What is it?

The Criminal Justice portfolio is happy to offer judges, prosecutors and court staff, a range of seminars, webinars and lively sessions which combine lectures, key notes speeches and presentations and are intended to enhance knowledge of EU  practitioners by embracing EU Law in their daily praxis. The training experience will offer the possibility for a better understanding of the current EU legal framework of Criminal Justice and promotes mutual trust and cooperation in order to enable practitioners to work together across the borders.

In our training offer you will also find trainings implemented in cooperation with the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL) where law enforcement meets judiciary and work together on practical cases.

Our partners are EUROJUST, EUROPOL, EJN, EJCN GNS, JITs Network and EPPO, providing first-hand knowledge from practitioners in different areas of law.

 

Aim

What’s the objective?

EJTN’s Criminal Justice seminars are intended to promote a better understanding about the current EU legal framework of Criminal Justice in order to enable practitioners to work together across the borders. Furthermore, the seminars aim at bolstering the awareness and knowledge of several areas of EU Criminal Law such as asset recovery and confiscation, cybercrime and e-evidence or procedural rights in order for practitioners to embrace EU law as part of their daily practices.

Key topics

The Criminal Justice training seminars consist of interactive sessions, simulations, group’s work and the review of case-studies inspired by real facts in order to animate debates and promote interaction between practitioners attending the different events.
The collaborative partnership with CEPOL brings together law enforcement and judicial communities for joint courses on, inter alia, JITs, illegal immigration, financial investigations, counter-terrorism, e-evidence or corruption.
The trainings cover a wide range of legal topics, including:

  • Cross-Border Judicial Cooperation

  • Procedural Safeguards

  • Environmental crimes

  • Cybercrime and E-evidence

  • Trafficking in Human Beings

  • Investigations and prosecutions carried out by the EPPO

  • Asset Recovery and Confiscation

  • Victim's Rights

  • War crimes

Achievements

In 2021, EJTN has faced the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic situation by continuing its seminars in a new format and making them accessible to all participants across the EU with the great help of its Experts, Activity Coordinators and support of its Members. EJTN’s Criminal Justice trainings provided for 27 trainings and webinars attended by 480 practitioners from EU and Western Balkans.

The Criminal Justice portfolio is able to deliver its training to a larger audience, thanks to the possibility of connecting online from any part of the world. While judicial cooperation in criminal matters continued to be a cross-cutting area for all the training, specialized key topics such as use of digital systems and electronic evidence, cybercrime, asset recovery and confiscation or the EPPO became the backbone of the Criminal Law area. Special focus was given to the area of victim’s rights in accordance with the EU Strategy on victims’ rights (2020-2025) offering series of webinars on key topics concerning victims’ rights of terrorism, hate crimes or state compensation  for victims.

Activities planned for 2023

Reference Topic Dates Venue
CR/2023/01 The functioning of the EAW in the EU in practice: improving trust in national criminal justice systems 30 November- 1 December Stockholm, Sweden
CR/2023/02 Environmental crimes 9-10 March Pirna, Germany
CR/2023/03 The European Investigation Order in Practice (basic) 9-10 March Vienna, Austria
CR/2023/04 Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters: Practical Case-Based Simulation (International Fraud) 30-31 May Napoli, Italy
CR/2023/05 Procedural Safeguards in criminal proceedings in the EU in practice: improving the existing aquis -Directives (introductory) 3-4 April Pirna, Germany
CR/2023/06 Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters: Practical Case-Based Simulation (Counter-terrorism) 28-29 March Omšenie, Slovak Republic
CR/2023/07 Cybercrime and E-Evidence (introductory) 9-10 May Lisbon, Portugal
CR/2023/08 Economic crimes: asset recovery and Confiscation in the EU in practice: focus on the Regulation 2018/1805 of 14 November 2018 (specialized) 23-24 May Riga, Latvia
CR/2023/09 The EPPO: investigations and prosecutions to fight crimes against the financial interests of the EU (general landscape; jurisdiction; comparative criminal law) 13-14 June Trier, Germany
CR/2023/10 Cybercrime and E-Evidence (specialized) 28-29 September Sofia, Bulgaria
CR/2023/11 The European Investigation Order in Practice, (including digital tools advanced) 5-6 October Leipzig, Germany
CR/2023/12 Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters: Practical Case-Based Simulation (Trafficking in Human Beings) 24-25 October TBC
CR/2023/13 Procedural Safeguards in criminal proceedings in the EU in practice: focus on Children’s directive (specialized) 30-31 October Paris, France
CR/2023/14 Investigation and prosecution of THB cases in the EU 16-17 November Madrid, Spain
CR/2023/15 Economic crimes: asset recovery and Confiscation in the EU in practice: focus on the Regulation 2018/1805 of 14 November 2018 (specialized) 20-21 November Thessaloniki, Greece
CR/2023/16 Victim’s Rights in the EU in practice: violence against women and children 30 November – 1 December Leipzig, Germany
CR/2023/17 GNS joint training on Core International Crimes 5-7 June Nuremberg
CR/2023/18 Webinar series on Victim’s Rights: Webinar 1 on Victims of war crimes. 14 March EJTN Online
CR/2023/19 Webinar series on Victim’s Rights: Webinar 2 on Hate crimes: protecting citizens against racism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism 27 April EJTN online
CR/2023/20 Webinar series on Victim’s Rights: Webinar 3 on The protection of victims of terrorism in the EU in practice 28 September EJTN Online
CR/2023/21 Probation measures or alternative sanctions/ Different types of supervision measures as an alternative to provisional detention 7 December EJTN Online
FAQ

Any questions?

For any queries concerning the Criminal Justice portfolio, please contact the EJTN Secretariat: Ms Mónica Martí-García: monica.marti@ejtn.eu or Ms Alina Secrieru: alina.secrieru@ejtn.eu.