With the support of the EU funded Project on “Further support to legal education reform in Kosovo” an internship program was organized for prosecutors of the Republic of Kosovo, officials of the Kosovo Judicial Council Secretariat and the Kosovo Prosecutorial Council. The Program took place during 19-31 July 2015 in Netherlands.
In this almost two-week internship program, organized by the Kosovo Judicial Institute and the Judicial Training Institute of Netherlands (SSR) the delegation from Kosovo was hosted in many justice institutions of Netherlands.
This internship program aimed to increase cooperation between institutions of judiciary and prosecution of Netherlands and of the Republic of Kosovo, obtaining experiences from the Netherlands justice system in increasing its capacities, work of courts and prosecutions, judicial system, implementation of judicial procedures from judges and prosecutors, as well as acquainting with the form of organizing the work in courts and prosecutions, placing this in the context of the reform and decentralization of administration that is taking place by the KJC in Kosovo.
During the first week participants were in one common group a training program was conducted focusing on topics like: regulation of the justice system in Netherlands by the Netherlands Council for Judiciary – competencies and relation with courts and prosecution services; continuous and the initial training in Netherlands – two-day presentation by the Training and Study Centre for the Judiciary (SSR) in Utrecht of Netherlands;
The delegation during the first week conducted a visiting program also in the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague, in the Hague Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and EUROPOL.
While in the second week the delegation was divided in two subgroups who conducted the program in the following institutions: District Court in Breda, Prosecution Service in the Hague, Public Prosecution Service in Zwolle and Hague, and at the end the internship concluded with a visit hosted by the Ambassador of the Republic of Kosovo in the Hague Mrs. Vjosa Doburna.
Participants in this internship program were prosecutors of the Republic of Kosovo, officials of the Kosovo Judicial Council Secretariat and the Kosovo Prosecutorial Council, as well as representatives of KJI and the EU project “Further support to legal education reform in Kosovo”.
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