CJEU training videos

A few hours
Novice

Course details

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 procedural 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

Offered by

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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Schedule

  1. Welcome
  2. 1. General introduction to the work of the court of justice and the general court
  3. 2. Different types of procedures at the CJEU and the general court
  4. 3. Procedure and the different stages of a typical hearing
  5. 4. Direct actions before the general court
  6. 5. The reference for a preliminary ruling: a dialogue on european law with the european court of justice at the initiative of national judges
  7. 6. Preliminary reference procedure introduction specificities for lawyers
  8. Downloads