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1. The Agency shall establish, develop and review training for members of its own staff and members of the staff of relevant national administrations, courts and tribunals, and of national authorities responsible for asylum and reception.

2. The Agency shall develop training as referred to in paragraph 1 in close cooperation with Member States and, where appropriate, with the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, established by Council Regulation (EC) No 168/2007 , and relevant training entities, academic institutions, judicial associations, training networks and organisations.

3. The Agency shall develop a European asylum curriculum taking into account the existing cooperation within the Union in the field of asylum in order to promote best practices and high standards in the implementation of Union law on asylum. Member States shall develop appropriate training for their staff pursuant to their obligations under Union law on asylum on the basis of the European asylum curriculum and shall include core parts of that curriculum in that training.

4. The training offered by the Agency shall be of high quality and shall identify key principles and best practices with a view to ensuring greater convergence of administrative methods, decisions and legal practices, while fully respecting the independence of national courts and tribunals. As part of the European asylum curriculum, the training offered by the Agency shall cover, in particular:

(a) international and Union fundamental rights standards, in particular the provisions of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (the ‘Charter’), as well as international and Union law on asylum, including specific legal issues and case law;

(b) issues related to the determination of whether an applicant qualifies for international protection and the rights of beneficiaries of international protection;

(c) issues related to the processing of applications for international protection;

(d) interview techniques;

(e) evidence assessment;

(f) relevant case law of national courts, the CJEU and the European Court of Human Rights and other relevant developments in the field of asylum law;

(g) issues related to fingerprint data, including data protection aspects, data quality and data security requirements;

(h) the use of expert medical and legal reports in the procedure for international protection;

(i) issues related to the production and use of information on third countries;

(j) reception conditions;

(k) issues related to minors, in particular unaccompanied minors, as regards the best interests of the child assessment, specific procedural safeguards such as respect of the child’s right to be heard and other child protection aspects, age assessment techniques, and reception conditions for children and families;

(l) issues related to applicants in need of special procedural guarantees, applicants with special reception needs and other persons in a vulnerable situation, with particular attention to victims of torture, to victims of human trafficking and to related gender-sensitive issues;

(m) issues related to interpretation and cultural mediation;

(n) issues related to resettlement;

(o) issues related to the handling of relocation procedures;

(p) resilience and stress-management skills, in particular for staff in managerial positions.

5. The Agency shall provide general, specific or thematic training as well as ad hoc training activities, including by using the ‘train the trainers’ methodology and e-learning.

6. The Agency shall take the initiatives necessary to verify and, where appropriate, ensure that the experts, including experts not employed by it, who participate in asylum support teams have received the training relevant to their duties and functions that is necessary for their participation in the operational activities organised by the Agency. The Agency shall, where necessary and in advance of or upon deployment, provide the experts referred to in the first subparagraph with training which is specific to the operational and technical assistance provided in the Member State concerned (the ‘host Member State’).

7. The Agency may organise training activities on the territory of a Member State or a third country in cooperation with that Member State or third country.