The European Court of Human Rights and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights have reached an agreement on the modalities for a joint project aimed at supporting the implementation of EU law and other legal instruments in the field of non-discrimination and access to justice.

The joint project will result in a case-law handbook in English translated into Bulgarian, Czech, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Spanish. The handbook will analyse the key principles as developed by the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union mainly in the area of non-discrimination. The handbook and related e-learning tools will be distributed to judges, prosecutors, lawyers and law enforcement officials in a host of target countries and will also be made available on-line.

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