Support for judicial cooperation in civil matters

Date de clôture : 19 janv. 2016  
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Objective and priorities

Specific objective: To facilitate and support judicial cooperation in civil matters.

The aim of this call is to contribute to the effective and coherent application of EU civil law.

The priorities are:

1. to contribute to the correct implementation of the following instruments:

• Regulation (EU) No1215/2012 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters (recast);
• Regulation (EU) No 650/2012 on jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition and enforcement of decisions and acceptance and enforcement of authentic instruments in matters of successions and on the creation of a European Certificate of Succession;
• Regulation (EC) No 805/2004 creating a European Enforcement Order for uncontested claims;
• Regulation (EC) No 1896/2006 creating a European order for payment procedure;
• Regulation (EC) No 861/2007 establishing a European Small Claims Procedure;
• The 2005 Hague Convention on Choice-of-Court Agreements.

2. to facilitate the exchange of data and the structured, confidential and data-protection-compliant communication between the authorities appointed under EU legislation (e.g. central authorities) or otherwise active in the context of EU legislation (e.g. courts, bailiffs), including electronic transmission of documents, requests for information, hearing of the parties and witnesses across borders in the application of EU legislation;

3. to exchange best practices in the field of insolvency and pre-insolvency proceedings, taking also into account the Commission recommendation of 12.3.2014 on a new approach to business failure and insolvency (2014/135/EU)

Activities

The following activities will be funded:

• data collection, surveys and research activities;
• mutual learning, exchange of good practices, cooperation, including identifying best practices which may be transferable to other participating countries;
• dissemination and awareness raising activities.

Training activities can also be funded as long as they are of ancillary nature and not the main purpose of the project.