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The Judicial Training Team | CJEU traning videos Available in All EU Languages
Have you ever wondered what’s really behind the doors of the Court of Justice of the EU?
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The Commission, in collaboration with the CJEU, has produced a series of 6 training videos. They provide concrete knowledge and hands-on advice to help you prepare your next encounter.
Target audience
Judiciary, lawyers, and other justice professionals. Judiciary, lawyers, and other justice professionals, as well as agents acting before the CJEU. Primary lawyers, other legal practitioners and agents acting before the CJEU, judiciary, as well as all justice professionals. Judiciary, lawyers, and other justice professionals, specifically those involved in direct actions to the General Court. Primary judges, members of national courts and tribunals (within the meaning of Article 267 TFEU), as well as all justice professionals. Primary lawyers, other legal practitioners and agents acting before the CJEU, as well as all justice professionals.
Learning objectives
- The CJEU jurisdiction, composition, and types of actions handled
- The main tasks of the Court of Justice and of the General Court
- Case-law establishing some of the basic structural principles governing the EU institutional and judicial system
- The role on national courts in judicial dialogue, building multi-levelled constitutionalism in Europe
- The essence of the cooperation between the Court of Justice and the national courts and tribunals
- Procedural rules regarding the written part of the procedure
- Various proce
- dural matters concerning submissions, the language regime, etc
- Skills to present legal arguments during the written and the oral phases of the proceedings
- Ability to use the e-Curia application
To access the videos,
- Click here and log in to the EU Academy through your EU Login. If you don’t have one yet, you can register here.
- To enrol to the course click on the yellow item, titled “enrol” below the video on the top right side of the page.
- Open the first section “Welcome” and Click on this link to answer the short survey. Once you have responded to the three simple questions in the survey, the course will be open for you to learn everything you have been wondering about the CJEU.
We encourage you to use this free and high-quality learning material, financed by the European Commission and created in cooperation with the CJEU.
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This content is offered by the European Commission. The European Commission is the European Union’s politically independent executive arm. It is alone responsible for drawing up proposals for new European legislation, and it implements the decisions of the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union.
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