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  "legislation": "eudn/2007/1149",
  "legislation_title": "Decision No 1149/2007/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 September 2007 establishing for the period 2007-2013 the Specific Programme ‘Civil Justice’ as part of the General Programme ‘Fundamental Rights and Justice’",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2007-1149",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Specific objectives",
  "text": "The Programme shall have the following specific objectives:\n(a) to foster judicial cooperation in civil matters aiming at:\n(i) ensuring legal certainty and improving access to justice;\n(ii) promoting mutual recognition of decisions in civil and commercial cases;\n(iii) eliminating obstacles to cross-border litigation created by disparities in civil law and civil procedures and promoting the necessary compatibility of legislation for that purpose;\n(iv) guaranteeing a proper administration of justice by avoiding conflicts of jurisdiction;\n(b) to improve mutual knowledge of Member States’ legal and judicial systems in civil matters and to promote and strengthen networking, mutual cooperation, exchange and dissemination of information, experience and best practices;\n(c) to ensure the sound implementation, the correct and concrete application and the evaluation of Community instruments in the area of judicial cooperation in civil and commercial matters;\n(d) to improve information on the legal systems in the Member States and access to justice;\n(e) to promote the training of legal practitioners in Union and Community law;\n(f) to evaluate the general conditions necessary to reinforce mutual confidence, while fully respecting the independence of the judiciary;\n(g) to facilitate the operation of the European Judicial Network in civil and commercial matters established by Council Decision 2001/470/EC.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 174, 27.6.2001, p. 25."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2007/1149/article/3",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}