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In addition to the general questionnaire on training of justice professionals on EU law launched on Friday 2 February (see below), there is a targeted questionnaire complementing the first one. This targeted questionnaire is intended for specialists of the European judicial training strategy.

On 23 January, Ms Maria João Almeida Gomes representing the EJN Secretariat, attended the 1st EuroMed Forum of Prosecutors General, hosted by the Office of the Spanish Prosecutor General, in Madrid.

The report focuses on the evaluation of OLAF Regulation No. 883/2013.

The deadline for applications is 12 February 2018.

Outcome of the 48th and 49th Plenary Meetings discussions

A Regional meeting of the EJN organised by Slovenia took place in Novi Sad, Serbia in October last year.

The 49th Plenary of the European Judicial Network (EJN) took place on 23 - 24 November in Tallinn, Estonia, under the Estonian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

The EJN Secretariat has published on the EJN website five standardised forms for accompanying the procedure for enforcement of cross-border financial penalties as laid down by Framework Decision 2005/214/JHA, agreed within the Working Party on Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters (COPEN) of the Council of the European Union.

The Prosecutor’s Office of the High Court of Cassation and Justice (POHCCJ), Bucharest, Romania, is looking to contract 2 experts in international judicial cooperation in criminal matters within the project „Providing specialised training of LEA in the intense use of modern judicial cooperation tools - FIGHTERR”, financed by the European Commission.

On 18th October 2017, the 9th National Correspondents Meeting of the European Judicial Network (EJN) took place in The Hague under the Estonian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Two recent judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union clarify the interpretation of the concept of trial resulting in the decision

A new handbook on How to Issue and Execute a European Arrest Warrant has been released by the European Commission.

- Regional Meeting, Paris, 22 September 2017

Finland organised a third regional meeting of the European Judicial Network on 21 and 22 September 2017 in Helsinki, at the premises of the Ministry of Justice.

On 5 and 6 October 2017 the 1st Regional and 7th National Meeting of the Contact Points of the European Judicial Network took place in Warsaw.

On 28 August 2017 the EJN Secretariat launched a new public area on the EJN website dedicated to the practical application of the Directive 2014/41/EU regarding the European Investigation Order in criminal matters