This document provides information about the European Commission's DG Competition training programme for national judges on EU competition law. It introduces the 2015 Call for Proposals, which has a budget of €1,000,000. Eligible projects can receive up to 80% financing for training measures like conferences, courses, and networking activities that promote knowledge of EU competition law among judges and judicial staff. The target audience includes judges, prosecutors, and other legal professionals from EU Member States. Successful past applicants have come from 12 different countries. Evaluation of proposals will be done by committees considering factors like the objectives, audience, partnerships, and lasting impact of each project.

1. Training of National
Judges
Introduction to the new Call for
Proposals 2015
DG Competition

2. Structure of the presentation
1. General intro to the Programme
2. Call for Proposals 2015

3. 1.Why is DG COMPETITION involved
in a programme of DG JUSTICE?
Main aim of the Justice Programme is to create a
European justice culture
Our specific field: competition law
You find us at section 2.2.2 of the Annual Work
Programme of DG JUSTICE
Budget for 2015: 1.000.000 €

4. Nationalities of Judges trained on EU
competition law 2007-2013

5. What we finance:
• Measures promoting training in EU competition law for national
judges and cooperation between them (organisation of
conferences, short or long-term training, the distribution of
documentation and information on EU competition law specifically
tailored to the needs of national judges etc.)
• We finance up to 80% and in exceptional and duly justified
cases¹ up to 90% of the total eligible costs of the projects.
¹Ex. Applicants originating from EU Member States under financial assistance
or surveillance (Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Portugal,
Romania and Spain).

6. Target audience
• "Judicial staff"
• Judges
• Prosecutors
• Judicial court staff
• Bailiffs
• Notaries
• Mediators
• One or several professions
• Participants from one or several Member States
(or acceding country)
• In initial (induction period) or continuous training

7. 2. Call for Proposals 2015
• Date of publication: September 2015 (all languages)
• Deadline for applications: 29/01/2016
• Budget: 1.000.000
Priority areas
• Improvement of knowledge, application and interpretation of EU
competition law;
• Development of legal linguistic skills of national judges;
• Improving and/or creating cooperation/networks.

8. A good application is
• Targeting the right audience (apprentice judges
or senior? First instance or supreme courts?)
• Focusing on specific and real-based (survey,
study etc) training needs (general or specific)
• Presenting strong partnerships (Ministry, Judicial
Academies, Courts etc)
• Well planned (preparation + marketing +
implementation + dissemination/sustainability)
• Producing long lasting results (network,
database, publications etc)

9. Evaluation Process
There should be at ideally 3 experts to evaluate each proposal
Proposal 1
Proposal 1
Proposal 1
Draft Score
Table
Draft Score
Table
Draft Score
Table
1° Evaluation
Committe
Final Score
Table+
Evaluation
summary
report
Final Score
Table+
Evaluation
summary report
Final Score
Table+
Evaluation
summary report
2° Evaluation
Committee
Final ranking
meeting

10. Awarded Projects (AFTER adjustments) in
2014
MAIN APPLICANT NATIONALITYTotal
BG 1
DE 1
EL 1
EU 1
HU 1
IE 1
IT 3
PT 1
RO 2
SK 1
SP 1
Grand Total 14

11. Money
BG 48528.8
DE 47148.48
EL 81709.84
ES 27396.8
EU 155581.6
HU 32131.2
IE 51116.8
IT 170770.18
PT 42331.49
RO 208334.96
SK 44550.4
Grand Total 909600.55

12. Looking for a partner?
Send us the relevant info and we will put them on
our dedicated section online!
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day organised in your country?
Contact us!

13. Thank you
Questions?
COMP-TRAINING-JUDGES@ec.europa.eu
Tel . +32 2 29 97883