Dear Colleague, 
As you know, the Department of ongoing training of the Judicial School of the Spanish General Council for the Judiciary, organises every year a series of seminars on EU Law and Linguistics, open to the participation of judges and prosecutors of the EU.
 For 2013 the activities foreseen are the following:
1.       CIVIL (only for judges)
Legal Language Seminars: Legal English and Legal French: Driving judicial performance in the European area of justice: mutual assistance in CIVIL matters that produces results. Region of Murcia, 17 to 21 June 2013.
 
2.       CRIMINAL (for judges and prosecutors)
Legal Language Seminars: Legal English and Legal French: Driving judicial performance in the European area of justice: mutual assistance in CRIMINAL matters that produces results.
This Seminar will be held in two phases:
1st - Linguistic immersion Phase .- Algorfa (Alicante), 6 to 10 May 2013
2nd - Theoretical Phase.- Murcia (Spain),  17 to 21 June 2013.
 
3.       Course on Judicial Application of European Community Law (only for Judges). (Workshops: English, French and Spanish). Region of Murcia, 7 to 10 October, 2013
You can find attached to this e-mail the description of the activities in English.
The object of this e-mail is no other than to offer you the possibility of proposing participants for these activities.
There will be 20 allocations for European judges and prosecutors for the Legal Language Seminars and 9 allocations for the Course, distributed as follows:
         Legal English.-    Civil: 6 judges; Criminal: 6 judges and prosecutors
         Legal French.-    Civil: 4 judges; Criminal: 4 judges or prosecutors
         Course.-                3 judges for English, 3 judges for French and 3 judges for Spanish
The maximum number of applicants purposed for each country will be 6 for the Seminars in English (3 for Civil and 3 for Criminal) and 6 for the Seminars in French (3 for Civil and 3 for Criminal) and 2 for each Course’s workshop (2 for English, 2 for French and 2 for Spanish). This does not mean that all the applicants you purpose are to be called. We will not know how many allocations will be given to each country until we have got all the applications. We will distribute the allocations proportionally according to the applicants’ number and origin.
Remember that those candidates who have attended the seminar/course in past editions will not be selected.
Participants will receive up to 350 € as travel-expenses allowance (home address - Spain and Spain - home address). The organisation will cover board and lodging expenses for participants.