The European Commission, in cooperation with Netcompany and distinguished legal experts, under the lead of Maria José Azar-Baud, is organising the Second Webinar on the Practical Guide for Judges on the implementation of the Representative Actions Directive (EU) 2020/1828.
The webinar will introduce you to the Guide and showcase 80 expert fiches with comprehensive, practice-oriented guidance on representative actions.
Date: 11 March 2026
Time: 15:00-17:00 (CET)
Register for the webinar.
The discussion among distinguished judges and experts, honoured by Hodge Malek KC(Deputy High Court Judge and Chairman of the Competition Appeal Tribunal, UK), Jasminka Kalajdzic (Superior Court of Justice, Canada) and Judge Han Jongeneel(Senior Judge at the District Court of Amsterdam, the Netherlands), will focus on case management, settlements, evidence and redress distribution.
If you missed our first Webinar of 18 February 2026, you may access its recordings and detailed reports via the below hyperlinks.
To access these materials and many more legal fiches as integrated in the Practical Guide for Judges, you will need to register on EC-REACT. This registration guide will assist you in the process. For individual assistance, please email: just-ec-react@ec.europa.eu in your preferred language.
- Webinar session agenda
- Recordings and speeches from each part of the webinar:
- Q&A – Amy Adams’s speech on how courts should interpret and apply Article 16 of the Representative Actions Directive
- A short guide to accessing judiciary workspaces on EC-REACT
The session of 18 February brought together over 40 distinguished judges and legal experts from the EU and the UK. We heard insights on: Admissibility and Standing Requirements, especially on homogeneity and how courts shall identify the common factual origin of harm; Third-Party Litigation Funding, in particular that the legitimacy of funding depends on Qualified Entity independence, transparency of arrangements and absence of undue influence on litigation or settlement decisions. Approaches to the topic diverge across jurisdiction – no budget disclosure in the Netherlands, full disclosure in the UK and Germany’s 10 % cap effectively ruling out commercial funding. As to the Private International and European Law, it appears collective actions still raise jurisdictional issues under Brussels I-bis and fragmentation under Rome II Regulations.