ELI Projects

The Council shall identify relevant projects within the ELI's field of activities, following consultation with the Senate and taking into account suggestions made, in particular, by other bodies or members of the Association or by stakeholder organisations.

Any project carried out under the auspices of the ELI must

  • be at the service of the European citizen by improving the law or facilitating its application;
  • aim at results that potentially have immediate practical impact, normally condensing to draft rules, comments on rules or guiding tools of similar conciseness;
  • be effectuated through collaboration between jurists from academia and from legal practice; and
  • take a genuinely pan-European perspective as well as consider the achievements of the various legal cultures.

 

ELI Instruments

Projects carried out under the auspices of the ELI will often take the form of medium- to long-term projects, the added value of which is to provide, through the independence, excellence and diversity of the project teams and the on-going critical guidance by a very broad constituency of jurists, well-founded solutions that find the support of the European legal community (“ELI Instruments”).

The Council will appoint one or more reporters, either on its own initiative or after having carried out a call for tender. It will normally appoint advisors or consultants and establish a Members Consultative Committee. Project results may only be published as official statements of the ELI with the approval of both the Council and the General Assembly.

ELI Statements

Projects carried out under the auspices of the ELI may also take the form of short-term reactions to current developments, the added value of which is to coordinate, and so far as possible to reconcile, the views taken by various European constituencies (“ELI Statements”).

As a quick reaction of the ELI is required, the Executive Committee will appoint a project team as well as advisors or consultants. ELI Statements may only be published as such with the Council’s approval.