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The seminar in CroatiaFor the first time since its creation, EJTNorganised a seminar in a candidatecountry, which took place in Zagreb5–7 December, 2012. It gathered togetherjudges and prosecutors from Croatia, theCzech Republic and France. The simulationfulfilled all expectations as the trainingactivity improved the methodology alreadyimplemented in the previous seminars.The Criminal Justice I Project (CJI) hasbecome a cornerstone of judicial trainingin criminal matters with four majorimprovements learnt in the lessons: Threecountries will be involved with criminalinvestigations; a reformulated workshoplanguage regime will be applied (withEnglish as the lingua franca); one theoreticallecture regarding ne bis in idem will begiven; and, a presentation on the role ofEurojust will be completed.The seminar in Zagreb was quite successfulas Croatia was considered as the 28 thEU Member State for the purposes ofthe simulation. Participants very muchappreciated the seminar with 94.7% of theparticipants rating the seminar’s objectiveand scope as either good or very good.Participants also expressed the sentimentthat the seminar improved their confidencein other EU judicial systems. Furthermore,100% of the participants considered theseminar’s format and content to be goodor very good. More specifically, the choiceof topics, the practical cases and the wellbalancedmethodology were appreciated.National experts in the seminar wereJudge Sanja Katušić Jergović, (Croatia), PetrKlement, Prosecutor and EJN contact point(Czech Republic) and Jean-Michel Peltier(France), Prosecutor and former FrenchLiaison Magistrate to the Czech Republic.Professor Wolfgang Schomburg acted aslecturer and Anna Richterova, Deputy to thenational member for the Czech Republic wasthe Eurojust representative at the seminar.44
Criminal Justice II Project“Obtaining and transferring evidence in criminal matters between Member Statesin view of securing its admissibility”Following a decision taken by the EJTNPenal Sub-Working Group at its meetingin Paris from 30 June to 1 July 2011, theCriminal Justice II project started in 2012with two seminars (in Sofia and Barcelona)gathering an average of 45 participantsand both taking place in November 2012.A preparatory meeting with experts andmembers of the Sub-Working Group penaltook place in March 2012 to discuss theseminar programmes and structure.The problem of cooperation withingathering and sharing evidence betweenthe EU Member States is not new and hasbeen greatly discussed over the past years.Gathering evidence as well as the problemof admissibility of evidence gatheredabroad raise significant legal discussionsamong judges and prosecutors dealingwith judicial cooperation. Within thiscontext, EJTN identified a training need inthis particular area of EU criminal law.Through the analysis of practical cases, thedifferences between national legal systems,in terms of admissibility of evidenceobtained abroad, were highlighted. Theseminars also demonstrated that thoughthe reasoning can be different and thatthere are instruments at the EU level tofacilitate the transfer and admissibility ofevidence gathered in another EU MemberState, common principles and conclusionsfor improving the cooperation among EUMember States can be reached.The training in this topic was made upof 1.5-day seminars and included up to 7groups composed of some 6 judges andprosecutors representing their EU MemberStates (national core groups). The seminarsin Sofia and Barcelona were attended byProfessor Gert Vermeulen from GhentUniversity who prepared the practicalcases with the support of Luis Pereira,David Touvet, Francisco Jiménez-Villarejoand Rosa Ana Morán Martínez.Assessment by participantsAn average of 84.7% of the participantsdeemed the seminar’s objective andscope as either good or very good. Thisassessment included the participants’evaluations of the excellent added value(in terms of professional development,the fulfillment of expectations and theimprovement of confidence in other EUjudicial systems in order to enhance theprinciple of mutual recognition of judicialdecisions) delivered by the seminars.45
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