Their aim is to establish and maintain relationships, as well as encouraging exchange and communication, with other foreign institutions analogous to the General Council of the Judiciary, and with international organizations and other institutions and members of the Justice sector, strengthening the international presence and projection of the General Council of the Judiciary, and of the Spanish judges and magistrates in Justice related forums and events.

This area focuses specifically on the following:

• Developing relationships of institutional character – either aimed at being permanent or purely circumstantial – with foreign institutions analogous to the General Council of the Judiciary, as well as with other Legal Authorities and Institutions, and members of the Justice sector.
• Strengthening the institutional presence of the Council, and that of Spanish judges and magistrates in international forums and organs related to the Judiciary, especially those in Ibero-America, the European Union, and the Council of Europe.

Within these two broad lines of action, what has been done up to the present can be summarized in the following activities and processes:

1. Participation of the General Council of the Judiciary in the European Network of Councils of the Judiciary (www.encj.eu).
2. Integration of the General Council of the Judiciary in the Ibero-American Judicial Summit, conceived and developed as a space to provide the backbone for coordination and cooperation among the highest jurisdictional and governing authorities in the Judiciary of the 23 countries that comprise the Ibero-American Community of Nations. A concrete representation of this integration follows:

• • Ibero-American chair: A training programme through grants awarded – among other instances – by the General Council of the Judiciary, aimed at Ibero-American judges and magistrates, and run academically and logistically by the RRII Service and the Law School of the General Council of the Judiciary.
  • Ibero-American Network of Legal Documentation Centres (Iberius), designed as a community for cooperation, agreement and mutual support among Centres and Information and Documentation Units in Ibero-American countries, where – through the CENDOJ – the General Council of the Judiciary holds the Network Secretariat, coordinating its activities and contents. Among others, the maintenance of the www.iberus.org website, and the General Council of the Judiciary Legal Library’s special edition – to be donated to Latin-American judges and magistrates – may be highlighted.
  • Ibero-American Network of Law Schools (Riaej in Spanish), conceived as a linking community for the mutual cooperation, agreement and support among Law Schools and public centres for legal training in Ibero-America, with the participation of the General Council of the Judiciary in the Network Management Committee.
  • Ibero-American Centre for Virtual Legal Training (Ciacjv in Spanish), designed as a sub-product of the Riaej, and aimed at supplying a technological platform to develop virtual training courses for Ibero-American judges and magistrates.
  • Ibero-American Network of International Legal Cooperation (Iber Red in Spanish).
  • Distributing and developing from the Permanent Secretariat of axiological products from the Summit: the Ibero-American Judge’s Statute, Human Rights Charter before the Law in the Ibero-American Judicial Space, and Ibero-American Legal Ethics Code.

1. To promote the presence of the General Council of the Judiciary in international organisms and events: European Council for Justice Efficiency (CEPEJ in Spanish), European Judges Consultation Council, Central-American and MERCOSUR Supreme Court Summits, European Network of Law Schools, International Organisation of Judicial Training (IOJT), The Hague Conference, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) among others.
2. To hold bilateral Meetings with other Judiciaries: France, Morocco, Portugal.
3. To see to institutional visitors or visiting personalities to the seat of the General Council of the Judiciary, or to other Spanish premises and jurisdictional or judicial governing organs.
4. To encourage the participation of Spanish judges and magistrates in meetings, seminars, workshops and other international activities, as well as in international organizations and tribunals.
5. To support the activity of the Crisis Administration of the State and the restoration of Democracy