European e-Justice Portal

How the EJN (in civil and commercial matters) can help citizens

The EJN (in civil and commercial matters) facilitates relations between national judicial authorities which in turn benefits people involved in cross-border civil and commercial cases.

The EJN (in civil and commercial matters) helps to improve effective access to justice in the following ways:

It provides citizens directly with a wide range of information on European, national and international civil and commercial law through pages on specific topics which are available here.
It has also developed a number of publications, notably for citizens on specific Union law instruments.

Last update: 20/11/2019

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