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Specific objectives The Programme shall have the following specific objectives:

(a) to foster judicial cooperation in civil matters aiming at:

(i) ensuring legal certainty and improving access to justice;

(ii) promoting mutual recognition of decisions in civil and commercial cases;

(iii) eliminating obstacles to cross-border litigation created by disparities in civil law and civil procedures and promoting the necessary compatibility of legislation for that purpose;

(iv) guaranteeing a proper administration of justice by avoiding conflicts of jurisdiction;

(b) to improve mutual knowledge of Member States’ legal and judicial systems in civil matters and to promote and strengthen networking, mutual cooperation, exchange and dissemination of information, experience and best practices;

(c) to ensure the sound implementation, the correct and concrete application and the evaluation of Community instruments in the area of judicial cooperation in civil and commercial matters;

(d) to improve information on the legal systems in the Member States and access to justice;

(e) to promote the training of legal practitioners in Union and Community law;

(f) to evaluate the general conditions necessary to reinforce mutual confidence, while fully respecting the independence of the judiciary;

(g) to facilitate the operation of the European Judicial Network in civil and commercial matters established by Council Decision 2001/470/EC .