CIEEL's research activity focuses mainly on the evolution of European Community law, with particular emphasis on Greece, as a EU member state. CIEEL's academic researchers follow the evolution of EU doctrine, legislation and jurisprudence.

CIEEL's research activity extends also beyond national borders, to a wide spectrum of legal issues, including among others public and private international law, protection of human rights and international economic law.

While a significant amount of CIEEL's research is conducted independently, other research is conducted within the framework of research programmes sponsored either by the EU or national agencies.

For more information, click here: http://www.cieel.gr/en/research/index.jsp

One of CIEEL's primary objectives is to provide consultative support to the Greek State, public legal entities, agencies of financial activity and legal professionals on EU matters. In particular, CIEEL drafts legal opinions, provides advisory work and research studies.

To meet its objectives, CIEEL organizes congresses, seminars, conferences and lectures. When such events were first organized, their objectives were to provide general legal information and to familiarize Greek jurists with European Community law practice. These CIEEL events are gradually becoming more specialized and advanced, and are therefore addressed not only to jurists, but also to professionals from other sectors, such as business and science. Recently, this experience was extended to jurists from many countries of South East Europe, and in particular to jurists from candidate countries to the EU.

Since its establishment, CIEEL has shown significant publishing activity. Amongst others, CIEEL publishes the trimestrial legal journal "Hellenic Review of European Law" in cooperation with the Bar Association of Thessaloniki, as well as books, congress reports, journal articles and research studies.

For a free catalogue containing all CIEEL publications, including summaries of recently published materials, click here http://www.cieel.gr/en/publications.jsp.

All publications are available through Ant. N. Sakkoulas publisher, with the exception of the "Hellenic Review of European Law", which is distributed through the Thessaloniki Bar Association.

To support and advance its academic and research work, CIEEL has created a library consisting of current materials covering the entire spectrum of its academic field. Materials can be found in a variety of languages, including Greek, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. The CIEEL library is the largest and most complete library in Greece in the area of EU law.

For more information, click here http://www.cieel.gr/en/library.jsp

In 1978, following to a decision by the Commission of the European Communities, CIEEL was designated as an official "European Documentation Centre". As such, it regularly receives all official EU publications in either Greek, French or English.

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ÇELC

This data base includes information about the national implementation of EU directives
The data base is available only in greek language.

STATE AID LEGISLATION

This data base includes all community legislative texts concerning state aid sector.
The data base is available only in greek language.

STATE AID CASE - LAW

This data base includes all Community and national jurisprudence concerning state aid sector. In specific, it includes judgments of community Courts, decisions of the European Commission and judgments of greek courts.
The data base is available only in greek language.

CIEEL cooperates with a multitude of European and non-European International research institutes and universities, including the European Public Administration Institute of Maastricht (Netherlands), Capital University Law School (Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.), and the Academy of European Law of Trier (Germany).

The cooperation agreement with Capital University (CU) includes the exchange of researchers, professors and students, as well as the training of Greek and foreign students (both American and European) on issues of international and EU law, international protection of human rights, constitutional law and U.S. law.

Within the framework of the aforementioned agreement, summer courses are offered each year for one month. The first two weeks of the courses take place in Thessaloniki, whereas the last two weeks of the course are completed on the island of Skopelos. U.S. students are required to take final exams for courses selected; Greek students who have already successfully completed the exams, are awarded certificates of attendance. For more details, please visit http://www.law.capital.edu/international.

CIEEL established the Centre of European Professional Training (CEPT) in collaboration with the Centre of European Constitutional Law (Athens) in January 1998.

CEPT Director: Stella Ioannidou, ex Attorney-at-law, DEA in European Law, Academic Researcher at CIEEL.

After its establishment, CEPT was accredited as a "Centre of Continuous Professional Training" from 1998 to 2000 and organized three training projects sponsored by the Region of Central Macedonia and the European Social Fund:

• "International Sales Contracts" 1998 (300 hours)
• "Åuropean Legislation and Case Law" 1999 (250 hours)
• "European Legislation with an emphasis on the Euro and the regional policies of the European Union" 2000 (300 hours).

The training projects were addressed to young lawyers of Northern Greece.

In the framework of the general governmental policy for establishment of transparency and effectiveness at the entrusting of public conventions, the Ministry of Economy enforced - initially pilot and already on permanent base - an operational plan for a single national system of control of the process of entrusting of public conventions and for provision of legal - technical support to the national contracting authorities.

Since 1.1.1997 the Public Procurement Monitoring Unit exercises a control of preventing nature concerning the observation of Community directives as regards public conventions in the processes of auctioning of conventions of work and services. Functioning thus as special legal and technical advisor of all Greek contracting authorities, it offers specialised and most rapid advisory support for the control of the copies of competition (in draft form), as well as for the resolution of explanatory problems which are presented during the auctioning processes.

Since January 2002 a special unit operates in the premises of the CIEEL, providing advisory services to the EU Directorate of the Ministry of Economy and Finance in the field of state aids. In particular, the Unit shall contribute to the systematic approach to the aforementioned field, with the long term objective of observing state aids community legislation and the providing consultative support to Greek public authorities granting state aids. The Unit¢s staff is constituted by legal, scientific collaborators of KDEOD.

In the Centre of International and European Economic Law (KDEOD) there is also a Unit of Energy Law (MoDjkE). This Unit provides advisory services concerning the compatibility control of public conventions which belong in the competence of the General Secretariat of Ministry of Development with the Community law (subjects of energy).

The CIEEL, has created in 1988 the Dimitrios Evrigenis Fellowships, in memory of its founder, the late Professor Dimitrios Evrigenis. The fellowships aim to contribute to the further specialization of young scholars with a Master's degree in law in the academic field of the CIEEL.

CIEEL created in1999 the Krateros Ioannou Fellowships, in memory of the Emeritus Director of the CIEEL, the late Professor Krateros Ioannou, who was a Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Communities. This fellowship is available to law graduates from the Faculty of Law of the Democritus University of Thrace.

Both Fellowships are announced on an annual basis, and the duration of each fellowship is one year.

Students and graduates of law schools, both Greek and foreign, are welcome to apply for a internship with CIEEL, a method of practical training for a time period of one to six months.

A significant number of graduates from the Faculty of Law of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki have completed their practical training at CIEEL, under the auspices of the "Stage" Program, as have many students from european universities.