1. LIT Search JUST/2013/JPEN/AG/4556 With financial support from the Criminal Justice Programme of the European Commission Directorate General Justice "This publication has been produced with the financial support of the Criminal Justice Support Programme of the European Union. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of the authors and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Commission."

2. Project for a Pilot Database of Legal Interpreters and Translators Final Report LIT Search (JUST/2013/JPEN/AG/4556) More information: info@eulita.eu With financial support from the Criminal Justice Programme of the European Commission Directorate General Justiceinfo@eulita.eu By Eulalia Pessoa-White NRPSI -Director

3. How does it relate to the whole project It is one of the deliverables of the project and contains: - all the country reports presented at the progress meetings. 1. Progress meeting Vienna 11 and 12 th September 2014. 2. Prague 27 th and 28 th November 2014 3. Madrid 19 and 20 th February 2015 4. Sofia 11 and 12 th May 2015 - there is a section dedicated to the registers at a glance The 5th Progress meeting in London was a smaller editorial meeting to go through the country reports. LIT Search (JUST/2013/JPEN/AG/4556) More information: info@eulita.eu With financial support from the Criminal Justice Programme of the European Commission Directorate General Justice info@eulita.eu

4. Progress Meeting 1 Vienna -Austria and Poland presented their country reports and registers. Picture 1Picture 2 LIT Search (JUST/2013/JPEN/AG/4556) More information: info@eulita.eu With financial support from the Criminal Justice Programme of the European Commission Directorate General Justiceinfo@eulita.eu

5. Progress Meeting 2 Prague -The Czech Republic and the Netherlands presented their country reports. Presentation by the Dutch Association of Sign-Language Interpreters related to specialised training for legal interpreting. Picture 1 LIT Search (JUST/2013/JPEN/AG/4556) More information: info@eulita.eu With financial support from the Criminal Justice Programme of the European Commission Directorate General Justiceinfo@eulita.eu

6. Progress Meeting 3 Madrid -Co-beneficiaries Spain and the UK presented their country report and gave an insight into their Registers. LIT Search (JUST/2013/JPEN/AG/4556) More information: info@eulita.eu With financial support from the Criminal Justice Programme of the European Commission Directorate General Justiceinfo@eulita.eu

7. Progress Meeting 4 Bulgaria -Bulgaria presented their country report and gave an insight to the proposed register. -Associate members France and Sweden also presented their reports. LIT Search (JUST/2013/JPEN/AG/4556) More information: info@eulita.eu With financial support from the Criminal Justice Programme of the European Commission Directorate General Justiceinfo@eulita.eu

8. Progress Meeting 5 London -This was an editorial meeting. Not all the co-beneficiaries attended this meeting. -We went through all country reports; some questions were raised for clarification of these reports. Some questions have not yet been answered. -The meeting was held at the offices of the European Commission Representation in the UK in London. LIT Search (JUST/2013/JPEN/AG/4556) More information: info@eulita.eu With financial support from the Criminal Justice Programme of the European Commission Directorate General Justiceinfo@eulita.eu

9. Registers at a Glance There is a whole section of the Registers at a Glance for each country. This is in the form of a table with questions and answers. It contains information on admission, qualifications, management of the register and rates of pay for each co-beneficiary. LIT Search (JUST/2013/JPEN/AG/4556) More information: info@eulita.eu With financial support from the Criminal Justice Programme of the European Commission Directorate General Justiceinfo@eulita.eu

10. Registers at a Glance LIT Search (JUST/2013/JPEN/AG/4556) More information: info@eulita.eu With financial support from the Criminal Justice Programme of the European Commission Directorate General Justiceinfo@eulita.eu

11. The database InterConnect is going to give a demonstration on where we are now and how all the registers can be accessed through the e-Justice Portal in a similar fashion as Find A Lawyer. We hope to be able to include today’s presentation in the report. LIT Search (JUST/2013/JPEN/AG/4556) More information: info@eulita.eu With financial support from the Criminal Justice Programme of the European Commission Directorate General Justiceinfo@eulita.eu

12. What stage is the report at now? - It is at the editing stage. - To complete the report we need to: 1. receive the information requested 2. include the Interconnect model of the database 3. include the lessons learned during this conference 4. include final conclusions and recommendations I will not bore you with more detailed information as the report is due to be published in February 2016 and you will be able to get a copy of it. LIT Search (JUST/2013/JPEN/AG/4556) More information: info@eulita.eu With financial support from the Criminal Justice Programme of the European Commission Directorate General Justiceinfo@eulita.eu

13. Concluding Remarks -I would like to thank Veerle for a wonderful job she did of putting all the reports together. -Stephen Bishop (NRPSI) was volunteered as editor and has worked hard in editing the report and will continue to do so after this conference. Originally he was to present this document but due to unforeseen circumstances he could not attend this meeting. -Thank you for listening. LIT Search (JUST/2013/JPEN/AG/4556) More information: info@eulita.eu With financial support from the Criminal Justice Programme of the European Commission Directorate General Justiceinfo@eulita.eu