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Description:
On 5 March 2020, the European Commission published a Roadmap for 'EU Strategy on victims' rights (2020-2024)', outlining its five key priorities: empowering victims of crime, improving protection and support of the most vulnerable victims, facilitating victims’ access to compensation, strengthening cooperation and coordination, and the international dimension of victims’ rights. The Strategy calls upon promoting training activities for judicial and law enforcement authorities.
In June 2020, the European Commission published a Roadmap for 'EU Strategy on victims' rights (2020-2025)', outlining its five key priorities: empowering victims of crimes, improving protection and support of the most vulnerable victims, facilitating victims’ access to compensation, strengthening cooperation and coordination, and the international dimension of victims’ rights. This Strategy pays special attention to victims of terrorists acts, who are particularly likely of being subjected to cross-border judicial procedures.
The European Commission adopted a new Counter-terrorism Agenda on December the 9th, 2020. It relies on four pillars : “ANTICIPATE, PREVENT, PROTECT AND RESPOND”. The fourth pillar (RESPOND) takes into account the need “to guarantee that victims get the support and protection they need”
Aims of the webinar:
This training webinar will aim at the following:
- Shedding light on the main questions arising when dealing victims of terrorist acts and how to offer them the best protection
- Explaining the European applicable legal framework
- Getting a practical point of view via the experience of a Public Prosecutor dealing with victims of terrorist acts
- Sharing best practices between different member states
Learning objectives of the webinar:
The experts’ interventions will rely on the applicable texts, and especially the following:
- Victims’ Rights Directive 2012/29/EU with rights for all victims of all crimes
- The Directive (EU) 2017/541 on combating terrorism that responds more directly to the specific needs of victims of terrorism. (Replacing Council Framework Decision 2002/475/JHA and amending Council Decision 2005/671/JHA (the ‘Counter-terrorism Directive’). Title V of this Directive explicitly lays down provisions on protection of, support to, and rights of victims of terrorism.
- The compensation directive (COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 2004/80/ECof 29 April 2004 relating to compensation to crime victims)
The experts will remind the participants the tools to look for the European law and case law.
The questions and answers time slots will allow participants to share their own point of view and best practices.
Methodology and format:
The training will last 90 minutes. 2 Speakers will intervene, each for 30 minutes, followed with 15 minutes of Questions and Answers
The first speaker will address the question of the European legal framework, whilst the second expert will give a practical insight on how those rights effectively protect victims in the European Union.
Target audience:
Judges, Prosecutors and court Staff from all EU Member States, preferably criminal judges and prosecutors with some knowledge of EU Criminal Law and judicial cooperation in criminal matters.
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Application Process:
All applications must be submitted through the candidates' national EJTN member institution.
Participation:
Participants register via EJTN online platform.
Useful documents:
Terms and conditions of participation
Frequently Asked Questions
Number of participants:
Judges, prosecutors and court staff from all Member States
New deadline for application:
2 May 2022
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