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The members of the Find an Expert II jury continued their work virtually over the summer, under the co-chairmanship of Katrin Seidel and Guido Alpa. They then met face-to-face on Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 September 2023 in Luxembourg. Thierry Hoscheit, member of the Luxembourg Court of Cassation, welcomed the eight European members for two [...]

Next project in sight for the EEEI, EuroExpert and their partners: the Find an Expert 3 proposal is being drafted in response to the “Call for proposals for action grants to support transnational projects in the fields of e-Justice, victims’ rights and procedural rights (JUST-2023-JACC-EJUSTICE)”. History The Find an Expert 3 project follows the FIND [...]

Participants in the Find an Expert II project come from a variety of backgrounds, both in terms of country of origin and professional occupation. Below is a map of the participants’ country origins and tables showing their main professional occupations.

Process presentation WP3 is in charge of proposing a convergent nomenclature of fields of expertise. The main issue is to identify the main categories and sub-categories of a Findex-nomenclature to be used as a structure in the search engine and to define the scope of those as clearly as possible. Afterwards and in a second [...]

Situation as in 2022 Questionnaires collected by WP2-WG2 teams in charge of “Definition of standards to be met by bodies in charge of Expert registers”. For each country, we present answers to the questions below: Move the mouse-cursor over answer-squares to obtain comments. Use the scrollbar to see all the countries.

Since the end of 2022, the EEEI and Euroexpert have been working with several partners and the European Commission to facilitate access to experts in Europe as part of the “Find an Expert II” project. As part of this project, Work Package 4 (WP4) is looking at the specifications and functions of a search engine [...]

As in 2022 situation Results from the questionnaire collected by WP2 teams in charge of “Convergence work national register”. For each country, we present responses to the questions:

Cologne 2 June 2023: Revisiting the consensus conference – Find an expert II project Opening speech by Dr Bernd Scheiff, President of the Cologne Higher Regional Court Opening speech by Wolfgang Jacobs, German lawyer, project leader Wolfgang Jacobs recalls the objectives of the European project Findex 2, organized by the European Expert and Expertise Institute [...]

The consensus conference for the Find an Expert II project was held on 2 June 2023 at the Higher Regional Court in Cologne. During the day, work packages 2, 3 and 4 presented their work to the members of the jury and the participants. Following these presentations, time was allocated to public discussion and debate. [...]

The jury will be co-chaired by: Dr. Katrin SEIDEL Judge (Vorsitzende Richterin am Landgericht, Kiel) Germany Biography Guido ALPA Lawyer, Professor Emeritus of Civil Law (University of Rome “La Sapienza”) Italy Biography The jury will be composed of the following members: Francesco DEPASQUALE Judge, President of the CEPEJ since January 2023 Malta Biography Michel de [...]

General progress What has happened since the September 2022 progress review? The working groups of the different work packages have met, face-to-face and remotely via Teams, to compare their points of view and to prepare the deliverables expected for the consensus conference in June 2023. On the following pages, we present the progress of the [...]

Find an expert II – WP2 Convergence work national registers – Status report Extract by Martine Otter from Wolfgang Jacobs report with complementary information by Verena Wirwohl Objectives As defined in the global project, WP2 has three complementary objectives: Define minimum criteria for a person to qualify as a “judicial experts”, in terms of competence, specific knowledge [...]

Find an expert II – WP3 Nomenclature convergence – Status report Jan Wannenmacher — Judge Commercial Court ViennaBertrand Ludes – President of the Europe Commission of the CNCEJleads of Working Package 3 Alongside the FindexII project and its action plan (timeline) the task specifically assigned to Working Package 3 has been to develop a draft [...]

Minutes by Sascha Dalen Gilhuijs and Julie Lodomez The kick off meeting of the new joint EEEI/EuroExpert project FinExII on the 19th of April was a success in every way. Welcome by the Institut des Réviseurs d’Entreprise The meeting was hosted by the Institut des Réviseurs d’Entreprises and opened by their Vice president Fernand Maillard [...]

The project Find an Expert II – FINDEXII The Find an Expert I project was conducted from 2017 to 2019 and concluded with the publication on the e-Justice portal of information sheets on expertise procedures in the various European States. The Find an Expert II project is now its successor, pursuing the general objective of [...]

Find an Expert II EEEI is currently working on a new proposal to take our successful project Find an Expert a step further: Find an Expert II. While the first project identified the existing registers of judicial experts and succeeded in having them accessible through E-justice via the country pages, this project aims to establish [...]