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Selection
1. Participation is only open to judges, prosecutors, court staff and lawyers in private practice from eligible EU Member States participating in the EU Justice Programme (Denmark does not participate) including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo* and Ukraine.
The
number of open places available is limited (10 places). Participation will be
subject to a selection procedure. Selection will be according to professional
eligibility, nationality and then “first come, first served”.
Interested defence lawyers from Croatia
should apply via the Croatian Bar Association.
Interested defence lawyers from Hungary
should apply via the Budapest Bar Association.
Interested defence lawyers from Latvia
should apply vias the Latvian Council of Sworn Advocates.
Interested defence lawyers from
Lithuania should apply via the Lithuanian Bar Association.
Interested defence lawyers from Portugal
should apply via the Portugues Bar Association.
Interested
defence lawyers from Spain should apply via ICAB.
2.
Applications
should be submitted before 6 October 2024.
3.
A
response will be sent to every applicant after this deadline. We advise
you not to book any travel or hotel before you receive our confirmation.
Registration Fee
4.
€110 including
documentation, coffee breaks, lunch and dinner.
Travel and Accommodation Expenses
5.
Participants
will receive a fixed contribution towards their travel and accommodation
expenses and are asked to book their own travel and accommodation. The condition for payment of
this contribution is to sign all attendance sheets at the event. The amount of the contribution will be determined
by the EU unit cost calculation guidelines, which are based on the distance
from the participant’s place of work to the seminar location and will not
take account of the participant’s actual travel and accommodation costs.
6.
Travel
costs from outside Lithuania: participants can calculate
the contribution to which they will be entitled on the European Commission
website (https://era-comm.eu/go/calculator, table 2). The distance should be calculated from
their place of work to the seminar location.
7.
For
those travelling within Lithuania, the contribution for travel is fixed at €20
(for a distance between 50km and 399 km). Please note that no contribution
will be paid for travel under 50km one-way. For more information, please
consult p.10 on https://era-comm.eu/go/unit-cost-decision-travel
8.
Accommodation
costs: International participants will receive a fixed contribution of €94
per night for up to two nights’ accommodation. National participants travelling more than
50km one-way will receive a fixed contribution of €94 per night for one night
accommodation For more information, please consult p.14 on https://era-comm.eu/go/unit-cost-decision-travel.
9.
These
rules do not apply to representatives of EU Institutions and Agencies who are
required to cover their own travel and accommodation.
10.
Successful
applicants will be sent the relevant claim form and information on how to
obtain payment of the contribution to their expenses. Please note that no
payment is possible if the registered participant cancels their participation
for any reason.
Participation
11.
Participation
at the whole seminar is required and participants will be asked to sign
attendance sheets daily.
12.
A
list of participants including each participant’s address will be made
available to all participants unless ERA receives written objection from the
participant no later than one week prior to the beginning of the event.
13. The participant will be asked to give permission
for their address and other relevant information to be stored in ERA’s
database to provide information about future ERA events, publications and/or
other developments in the participant’s area of interest.
14. A certificate of attendance will be sent
electronically after the seminar.
Hotel
recommendations
15.
ERA
neither provides nor endorses local accommodation recommendations. Kindly
consult available online booking platforms.
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