A strong Belgian EJN for an optimal EU awareness of Belgian judges

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"Objectives The Belgian EJN aims, with its partner IGO-IFJ (Belgian Judicial Training Institute) , to strengthen its network, to sensitize the knowledge of the Belgian magistrates and the court staff on the existence of the EU tools and legislation as to ensure their correct application on an a daily basis. Only in this way, the one judicial area with legal certainty for its citizens and business can be created. Identifying in each court contact points, representing magistrates and court staff, modelled on the experiences in the Netherlands and Italy in the previous EU projects such as EURINFRA . Establishment of agreements with the chief court registrars on the ""coding"" of the European instruments used in the decisions of the judges, which will allow to collect correct statistical data and transfer these to the European Commission and the EJN. Development of the European website with various components: o preparation of a database with an easy for uploading, anonymizing and a user friendly search engine. The colleagues from Finland and France have been working on the problem of anonymizing, again it is the aim to learn from their best practices, and set up a workable model for other Member States. This database will receive input from a) existing databases where already some court decisions have been integrated and b) the newly coded decisions o making an inventory of existing EU legislation and national implementing legislation o recording texts of training (also e -learning), provided by the IGO –IFJ, if possible added by the texts of the EJTN-trainings o creation of a consultation platform for magistrates and for court staff where questions can be exchanged o recording news flashes o links to other websites, blogs, ... Establishment of a working method with the presidents of the courts and the chief court registrars to forward these decisions to the newly to be created European website with a database containing all relevant Belgian decisions, as well as a working method with the legal secretaries, designated to collect relevant doctrine, to provide abstracts of judicial articles on European PIL to this website. Data processed from this regularly updated, transparent and user-friendly database will make it possible to analyse (Belgian) problems when applying the EU PIL Regulations, formulate recommendations to the national legislator in order to ensure better implementation legislation as well as to the European Commission, via the EJN. Further development to the EUR-Alert, the newsletter created by the Belgian EJN related to relevant Legislation and case law on European instruments Cooperation is envisaged with other partners i.e. universities or researchers to write a general overview on the Belgian case law and to make horizontal analyses of problems related to the EU Regulations (e.g. translation requirements, …). These overviews can be translated in other EU-languages (i.e. English) and further distributed amongst the EJN-members. (Online) Training sessions on the working of the website , database and the platform Activities creation of a strong network of contact points appointed in each court (the Euro-coordinators), in close cooperation with the presidents of the courts and the Belgian EJN network, to support other colleagues within the judiciary by answering their questions on EU law and informing them on the recent developments and the practical use of these EU instruments, thus reinforcing the Belgian EJN. inventory of all the Belgian legislation and case law linked to the EU PIL instruments, in cooperation with researchers, hereby exploring the possibility to write short abstracts of case law and translate these into English. ensuring transparent and easy access to this legislation and case law development of the European website with various components, as mentioned under 1.2, including inter alia a database with all the court decisions concerning EU related topics with an ea sy"