The European Commission is proud to announce the publication of the 2024 report on European judicial training, which presents figures regarding training of justice professionals on EU law in 2023. It outlines the progress towards the objectives set within the European Judicial Training Strategy 2021-2024.

Here are key insights into EU justice professional training in 2023:

• 226,000 justice professionals (16.6% of all EU justice professionals) received training on EU law, showing a stable increase since 2020.
• A new milestone was reached: over 2 million justice professionals trained in EU law since 2011.
• A slight decrease in trained professionals, especially among judges, prosecutors, lawyers, and notaries, compared to 2022.
• Less than 50% of judges and prosecutors participated in continuing EU law training.
• A 25% increase in young professionals receiving initial EU law training from 2022.
• 63,000 participants (28.3%) of trained professionals were co-funded by the EU.
• Training participation varies across Member States and professions.
• More efforts are needed to meet EU judicial training strategy targets for 2021-2024.
• Digitalisation training remains low, with 4.9% of initial training and 2.5% of continuing training focused on digitalisation & AI.