26th February 2026 - Luxembourg and online
Self-preferencing and European Competition law – a lunchtime seminar details here – an event jointly organised by the Luxembourg Centre for European Law (LCEL and the Association of European Competition Law Judges (AECLJ) with the participation of the members of the General Court of the European Union Court of Justice of the European Union (GCEU).
The Competition Lab for Judges - 19-20 January 2026 - Budapest
The OECD-GVH Regional Centre for Competition, with the financial support of the European Commission, has just hosted this opportunity to focus on vertical agreements and vertical restraints. We are hoping for another lab in a year’s time; contact molnar.miranda@gvh.hu
ℹ️ For the last one, registration was open to judges from EU Member States, Kosovo, Montenegro and North Macedonia.
Dear members of the judiciary,
The European Commission, in cooperation with Netcompany and distinguished legal experts under the lead of Maria José Azar-Baud is delighted to invite you to TWO WEBINARS on the PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR JUDGES on Representative Actions Directive (EU) 2020/1828.
The first webinar will introduce the first version of the Practical Guide for Judges covering practice-oriented guidance on representative actions under Directive (EU) 2020/1828. The discussion will focus on the initial procedural stages of representative actions, including admissibility of actions, limitation periods, third-party funding, and jurisdictional issues.
📅 Date: 18 February 2026
🕤 Time: 15:00–17:00 (CET)
The second webinar will present the final version of the Practical Guide for Judges and showcase 80 comprehensive expert fiches on all main procedural stages of representative actions. The discussion will focus on the efficient management of representative actions, consumer participation and evidentiary procedures.
📅 Date: 11 March 2026
🕤 Time: 15:00–17:00 (CET)
Both events will also discuss the objectives and functionalities of EC-REACT – the European Commission Representative Actions Collaboration Tool that offers a collaborative space for members of the judiciary across the EU. You may wish to register to this restricted and secured platform here, to consult operational insights on concrete procedural stages of representative actions. You can use the translation function to read materials in your language as well as comment on these, in your language too. This quick EC-REACT registration guide will help you with the process.
In case of any questions please send an email to: JUST-EC-REACT@ec.europa.eu
Yours sincerely,
Representative Actions Directive Team
European Commission
Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers (DG JUST)
Website: Representative Actions Directive – European Commission (europa.eu)
ENTraNCE for Judges 2026
Applications are now open for the 16th edition of ENTraNCE for Judges – see brochure.
This year’s training will explore the latest developments in competition law and regulation in digital markets, with a special focus on the interplay of traditional antitrust, the DMA and national regulations.
The training will take place only in person at the EUI campus in Florence during two events:
- The Residential Training 22-24 April 2026
- The Final Workshop 18-20 November 2026
The ENTraNCE budget will cover travel and accommodation costs for all selected participants, up to 30 judges this year. National judges from EU Member States, as well as judges from Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein, Kosovo, Montenegro and the Republic of North Macedonia are invited to apply by 31 January 2026 via the following link: https://rscas.eu/view-form/entrance-2026/
AECLJ Annual Meeting - Thursday 11th to Saturday 13th June 2026
As we expect the main topic to be preliminary references under Article 267 TFEU, with a sub-topic competition law and regulating unfair behaviour, the meeting will now take place at ERA – the Academy of European Law – in Trier close to the EU courts in Luxembourg for the convenience of EU judges.
As many will already know, ERA is a public, non-profit foundation, established in 1992 at the initiative of the European Parliament. Their purpose is to serve the European public interest by ensuring that legal practitioners throughout Europe have the knowledge and necessary training to apply European law in practice.
Their patrons include the 27 EU Member States, Albania, Serbia, the United Kingdom, Scotland, the City of Trier and the Friends of ERA Association. They are co-funded by the European Union (as a Jean Monnet Designated Institution) and the German Federal State of Rhineland-Palatinate.
We thank our Polish colleagues who had initially proposed to host us for their work (we shall visit them in the near future) and thank ERA’s Director, Jean-Philippe Rageade, and the team there for working with us. As it happens, ERA’s Board of Trustees will be meeting alongside us and we expect to mingle at certain moments, the Board is chaired by Marc van der Woude, President of the General Court of the European Union, and one trustee is our own President, Anne-Marie Witters.