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

The call for proposals’ objectives 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.

90%

• Justice - Security

• International Organisations
• Legal Entities
• Local Authorities
• Non Profit Organisations
• Other Beneficiaries
• Private Bodies
• State-owned Enterprises

In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:

•  be legal entities (public or private bodies)
•  be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
  •  EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs), excluding Denmark)
    • non-EU countries:
      • 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 (list of participating countries).

Please check the list regularly, to get the latest status on countries in the process of association.

In addition, under the priorities 1 and 2: 
a) Organisations which are profit-oriented must submit applications in partnership with public entities or private non-profit-oriented organisations;
b) Projects must be transnational and involve organisations from at least two participating countries.

In addition, under the priority 3:
a) 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;
b) In the area of criminal matters, the application must be submitted by national authorities, courts, prosecution services and professional associations representing them;
c) Only one application per participating country will be accepted. Projects do not need to have a transnational aspect.

Beneficiaries and affiliated entities must register in the Participant Register — before submitting the proposal — and will have to be validated by the Central Validation Service (REA Validation). For the validation, they will be requested to upload documents showing legal status and origin.

Other entities may participate in other consortium roles, such as associated partners, subcontractors, third parties giving in-kind contributions, etc (see section 13).

Ministry of Justice and Public Order
125. Athalassas Avenue, 1461 Strovolos, Nicosia
Website: http://www.mjpo.gov.cy/

EC-JUSTICE-CALLS@ec.europa.eu

• Funding & Tenders
• Call document