The overall objective of the Justice programme is to help create a European area of ​​justice, based on mutual trust.

The objectives of the call are to facilitate and support judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters, and promote the rule of law, independence and impartiality of the judiciary, including by supporting the efforts to improve the effectiveness of national justice systems, and the effective enforcement of decisions.

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For priority 1, priority 3 and priority 4, the EU grant applied for cannot be lower than € 75,000. There is no upper limit. For priority 2, project budgets have to range between € 75,000 and € 350,000 per project.

• Justice - Security

• International Organisations
• NGOs
• Non Profit Organisations
• Private Bodies
• Semi-governmental organisations
• State-owned Enterprises

In order to be eligible, the applicants must be legal entities (public or private bodies) established in EU Member State (including overseas countries and territories and excluding Denmark) or non-EU countries associated to the Justice Programme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature.

In addition, under the priorities 1 and 2:

• Organisations that are profit-oriented must submit applications in partnership with public entities or private non-profit-oriented organisations;
• Projects must be transnational and involve organisations from at least 2 (two) participating countries;
• International organisations are eligible.

Under the priority 3:

• In the area of civil and commercial matters, the application must be submitted by the officially appointed members of EJN in civil and commercial matters, or by the national authorities, courts and professional associations representing the officially appointed members of EJN in civil and commercial matters;
• In the area of criminal matters, the application must be submitted by national authorities, courts, prosecution services and professional associations representing them;
• Only 1 application per participating country will be accepted. Projects do not need to have a transnational aspect.

Under the priority 4, the applicants must:

• be the national authorities responsible for the systems linking national criminal records databases, as well as fingerprint databases, to the ECRIS-TCN central system.
• Only 1 application per participating country will be accepted. Projects do not need to have a transnational aspect.

Consortium requirements

For priorities 1 and 2: Proposals must be submitted by a consortium complying with the following conditions:

• the applications must involve minimum 2 entities (beneficiaries, not affiliated entities) from 2 different eligible countries.
• the consortium must include at least 1 public body, private non-profit organisation or international organisation as beneficiary (not as affiliated entity).

For priority 3 and 4:  Proposals by single applicants are also allowed.

Ministry of Justice and Public Order, Republic of Cyprus

Konstantina Filippou

Administrative Officer

Tel: +357 22805955

Email: cfilippou@papd.mof.gov.cy

(Publish Date: 14/12/2022-for internal use only)

Related questions should be sent to the following email address:

EC-JUSTICECALLS@ec.europa.eu

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