The Commission has published a call for proposals for training national judges in EU competition law. The call is managed by DG COMP and addresses judges dealing with competition cases at national level. This also includes prosecutors, apprentice national judges and the staff of judges’ offices or national courts in countries that are eligible under the 2014 2020 Justice programme.

We want to fund projects that will improve justice systems and respect for fundamental rights in the EU. Please do not forget to apply for these funding opportunities!

On 11 June 2019, the EU directive 2016/800, on special safeguards for children involved in criminal proceedings, as suspected or accused persons, started to apply. It is the last in a set of 6 EU directives guaranteeing procedural rights for people across the EU.

Thanks to the revision of the Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003 (Brussels IIa Regulation), through the adoption of the new Council Regulation (EU) 2019/1111, the EU has made it easier and faster for decisions on divorce, legal separation and marriage annulment, and on parental responsibility issues and international child abduction, to be applied across borders.

In this issue, we would like to encourage you to apply some tools from the behavioural sciences to your project, to change attitudes and behaviours.

The European Commission in collaboration with the Czech Diversity Charter are organising this year’s Annual Forum to promote diversity management at the workplace.

The European Commission (EC) is organising on 25th May 2018 three events to mark the entry into application of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): one in Brussels, one in New Delhi and one in Santiago.

Take a look at the new projects funded in the framework of 2017 calls for proposals under the REC programme!

On 30 March 2017, the European Commission published the call for proposals for action grants under the 2017 annual work programme of the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme.

On 30 March 2017, the European Commission published the following calls for proposals for action grants under the 2017 annual work programme of the Justice Programme.

No JUST/2019/PR/01/0014

The fields relevant for this call include EU and national Roma integration policy, socio-economic inclusion, non-discrimination and antigypsyism. The maximum budget in a possible tender following this call is EUR 60,000.

Ex ante publicity for negotiated procedure for low value contracts