Training on EIO: TREIO Project

The EIO has been introduced by Directive 2014/41/EU in order to strengthen the judicial cooperation in EU in the criminal matters. The EVIDENCE2e-CODEX and EXEC Projects and the eEDES platform developed and led by the EC (DG Justice and Consumers) are currently working together to build up the secure and trusted infrastructure allowing the exchange of EIO forms and evidences between judicial authorities of the Member States. The e-Evidence Digital Exchange System (the System), developed under the e-Evidence Project, is the system that manages the EIO/MLA procedures/instruments: e-Forms, business logic, statistics, log, etc. The Reference Implementation is the front-end portal of the System and is also provided by EC. Both instruments use e-CODEX (the EU content agnostic e-Delivery infrastructure that supports cross- border e-Justice services) being the secure platform/infrastructure for evidence exchange. The EXEC project extends & strengthens some components of e-CODEX to manage the evidence exchange use case, EVIDENCE2e-CODEX provides the evidence packaging application. Although these operational tools allow the exchange of EIO forms and evidence, they are still under development and will be launched by Jan 2020. The research done between June 2018 and March 2019 across 16 Member States under these three projects showed that there is a specific need to generate the necessary awareness of the actors involved by properly disseminating information and knowledge about the procedures and the legal framework in which these procedures will be needed, to create a specific cross-border training for magistrates and court staff to understand, accept and finally promote the EIO forms exchange along the exchange of electronic evidence.