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On 29 November 2023, the European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached a compromise on the proposed directive to protect journalists and human rights activists from abusive cross- border civil proceedings, known as strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs). The directive's aim is to enable judges to identify SLAPPs and order their early dismissal, and thus spare the journalists or activists targeted by such proceedings the need to defend the manifestly unfounded claim brought ...

On 23 November 2023, the European Parliament approved the compromise reached with the Council in July 2023 on the European Commission proposal for a horizontal regulation on digitalisation of judicial cooperation and access to justice, intended to apply to both civil and criminal cross-border proceedings within the EU. The regulation, proposed back in December 2021, will supplement horizontally, rather than replace, existing rules on the digital delivery of documents, digital hearings and other uses ...

As the mobility of people in the EU's ageing societies increases, so does the need to protect a particular group – vulnerable adults. Because of an impairment or insufficiency in their personal faculties, these adults are unable to protect their interests and have to rely on support from others. While all EU Member States have established legal provisions and practices addressing these people's needs, they are highly divergent, for example, as regards powers of representation. Besides these national ...

En diciembre de 2021, la Comisión presentó una propuesta de Reglamento sobre la digitalización de la cooperación judicial transfronteriza, aplicable tanto a los asuntos civiles como penales. Los colegisladores llegaron a un texto transaccional en julio de 2023, que fue refrendado por el Comité de Representantes Permanentes (Coreper) del Consejo y conjuntamente por la Comisión de Asuntos Jurídicos (JURI) y la Comisión de Libertades Civiles, Justicia y Asuntos de Interior (LIBE) del Parlamento en septiembre ...

The e-CODEX system is the technological backbone of the digitalisation of EU judicial cooperation in both civil and criminal matters. It comprises a package of software products that allow for secure digital communication between courts, and between citizens and the courts, in particular enabling the secure exchange of judicial documents. The project, launched in 2010 with EU funding, has until now been managed by a consortium of Member States and other organisations, and coordinated by the Ministry ...

The Committee on Legal Affairs is proposing that the European Parliament give its consent to EU accession to the Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters, concluded within the framework of the Hague Conference on Private International Law.

The 2007 Lugano Convention is an international treaty that regulates the free movement of court judgments in civil cases between the Member States of the EU, on one hand, and the three EFTA states (Switzerland, Norway and Iceland), on the other. The convention effectively extends the regime of quasi-automatic recognition and enforcement of judgments that was applicable between EU Member States at the time under the Brussels I Regulation (No 44/2001). Whereas the EU rules currently in force regulating ...

Durante el período parcial de sesiones de noviembre I, el Parlamento votará una Resolución destinada a reforzar la democracia, la libertad de los medios de comunicación y el pluralismo en la Unión Europea. Esta Resolución pide una acción inmediata, tanto legislativa como no legislativa, para abordar la cuestión de las demandas estratégicas contra la participación pública.

This At a glance of the study with the same title, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the JURI Committee, analyses legal definitions of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP) and assesses the compatibility of anti-SLAPP legislation with EU law. It is recommended that an anti-SLAPP Directive should be adopted, and that the Brussels Ia Regulation and Rome II Regulation should be recast to limit ...

En mayo de 2018, la Comisión Europea adoptó una propuesta de Reglamento por el que se establece un nuevo programa de Justicia como parte del nuevo marco financiero plurianual (MFP) 2021-2027. En las negociaciones tripartitas se alcanzó un acuerdo rápido en segunda lectura con el Consejo que se prevé sea sometido a votación por el Parlamento durante el período parcial de sesiones de abril de 2021.