The meetings of the Western Balkan Judicial Training Institutions (WB JTIs), Councils for Judiciary and Working Group on Justice (WGJ), organised by the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) Secretariat, will be held on 7-8 June 2018 in Podgorica, Montenegro.

On the first day, the WB JTIs will discuss the next steps in cooperation of these institutions, terms of reference for developing the Study on minimum common standards of the judicial training process, and propose concrete topics to be included in the Regional Judicial training Programme 2019-2021 to be developed by RCC. The participants will also discuss the role of the councils for judiciary in the educational process and the relevance of JTIs and Councils in the appointment of judges’ procedure. On top of that representatives of the European Commission and European Judicial Training Network will present their views on the improvment of cooperation process and provide the participants information on their activities and plans in EU judicial training.

The following day, Western Balkans (WB) Working Group on Justice will meet for the 10th time, gathering representatives of the ministries of Justice from the region and partners such as Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit  Open Regional Funds  Legal Reform (GIZ ORF LR) and SEELS (South East European Schools of Law), to discuss RCC activities in the rule of law field in 2019, the future role and structure of the WB WGJ with the EC representatives.