On the job training for prosecutors assigned as ILC focal points and for the ILC Coordinator within the State Chief Prosecutors Office as mediation authority

October 25 2019, Academy of Justice with the support of GIZ conducted on-the-job training for prosecutors serving as ILC focal points and for the ILC Coordinator within the State Chief Prosecutors Office as mediation authority.

Purpose of this training was increase of international cooperation and development of focal points in investigation, collection of evidence, extradition and problematic issues that occur in practice. This training elaborated also on the role and duties of prosecutor as focal points for international legal cooperation.

The training also presented the role and duties of prosecutor in the mediation authority as coordinator of focal points for international legal cooperation, cooperation between focal points for the mutual legal assistance in basic prosecution offices, and the ILC Coordinator in the State Chief Prosecutor’s Office as mediation authority. Particular attention was paid to preliminary review of incoming requests from focal points, and formal review by the coordinator, scope of the formal review/ decisions and reasonable proposals for case groups.

Beneficiaries of this training were the State Deputy Chief Prosecutor, chief prosecutors, prosecutors from the Special Prosecution and basic instance prosecutors from different regions of Kosovo.