On 20-21 of October 2025, the EU4Justice Project conducted a two-day workshop on disciplinary investigation and inspections with concrete stages of the proceedings, with the practices of counterparts from Italy and Spain, based on the models of the HIJ’s previous inspection work with Inspectors Unit and the Assistant Inspectors Unit of the Office of the High Justice Inspector.

For this workshop/training, the EU4Justice Project mobilized two short-term international experts, prosecutor María del Carmen de la Fuente Méndez, part of the Spanish Inspectorate, and former prosecutor Annita Sorti, a former member of the Italian General Inspectorate, with the support of the EU4Justice team.

The training focused on discussions and group work on the criteria for selecting prosecution offices for inspection, analysis of preliminary inspection data, caseload, staff performance, trends of complaints, preparation of inspection tools, communication with the offices subject to inspection before the visit and planning by identifying problem areas, etc.

The Spanish and Italian experience was also used with the model for structuring the inspection report such as findings, evidence, importance of issues, provision of short-term, medium-term and long-term recommendations, identification of best and positive practices, follow-up mechanisms and deadlines for implementation and division of responsibilities, without neglecting the communication of findings with transparency, while maintaining institutional trust. The theoretical part was combined with case studies from European practices on thematic and institutional inspections.