Deadline: 06-May-21
The European Commission has launched a Call for proposals for action grants to promote judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters. The aim of this call is to contribute to the effective and coherent application of the EU acquis relating to judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters thus strengthening mutual trust.
The main objectives are to facilitate and support judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters, and to promote the rule of law, independence and impartiality of the judiciary, including by supporting the efforts to improve the effectiveness of national justice systems, and the effective enforcement of decisions.
Priority Areas
There are four priorities for the 2021 call for proposals for action grants to promote judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters:
- Judicial cooperation in civil matters
- Judicial cooperation in criminal matters
- Support to Member States for the setting up and strengthening of national networks active in the area of judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters
- Support to Member States for their connection to the ECRIS-TCN system
Funding Information
- The available call budget is EUR 6 650 000.
Eligibility Criteria
- In order to be eligible, the applicants must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member State (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs), excluding Denmark)
- non-EU countries:
- countries associated to the Justice Programme (associated countries) or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature
- other eligibility conditions:
- To be eligible, grant applications must comply with all of the following criteria:
- for priorities 1 and 2:
- the applicants must be public entities or private organisations, duly established in one of the countries participating in the Programme, or international organisation. Organisations which are profit-oriented must submit applications in partnership with public entities or private nonprofit-oriented organisations;
- the applications must be transnational and involve organisations from at least two participating countries;
- for priority 3:
- in the area of civil and commercial matters, the application must be submitted by the officially appointed members of EJN in civil and commercial matters, or by the national authorities, courts and professional associations representing the officially appointed members of EJN in civil and commercial matters.
- in the area of criminal matters, the application must be submitted by national authorities, courts, prosecution services and professional associations representing them.
- Only one application per participating country will be accepted. Projects do not need to have a transnational aspect.
- for priority 4, the application must be submitted by the national authorities responsible for the systems linking national criminal records databases, as well as fingerprint databases, to the ECRIS-TCN central system. Only one application per participating country will be accepted. Projects do not need to have a transnational aspect.
- the EU grant applied for cannot be lower than € 75 000.
- for priorities 1 and 2:
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