Without being a closed list of initiatives to be developed, EL PACCTO 2.0 will seek to create, support and strengthen, together with the Caribbean countries, the Caribbean Judicial Network in criminal matters (Caribbean Judicial Network - CJN). Its working dimension will be mainly Caribbean regional and bi-regional with the European Union, with activities in 2025 and 2026 that will be virtual and face-to-face both in the Caribbean and in the European Union. These activities will be organised in coordination and cooperation with the EJN and EU Member States.

The CJN should have two main Contact Points per country but will have a Caribbean Judicial Atlas through which the judicial authorities of the countries will be able to contact the judicial authorities of other countries as necessary in order to streamline international legal cooperation.

The objective of this line of action is to support the Caribbean institutions in, on the one hand, developing a network of judicial contact points that integrate the CJN; and, on the other hand, to support them in the structuring of the network, the constitution of a normative repository similar to the "Belgian Fiches" of the EJN and a similar working platform. The Contact Points in each country will be responsible for keeping the respective judicial authorities informed and updated and will meet regularly with their Caribbean and EU counterparts.

In accordance with the Concept Note that precisely defines the content of the action and this activity on which these Terms of Reference (TDR) are based, the object of this specialised technical support is to work on the design, determination of functions and accompaniment to the designation of points of contact that can be constituted as the Caribbean Judicial Network's principal (CJN). In addition to the conceptual creation of the CJN by drafting a roadmap document that establishes what needs to be done in the short and medium term to launch the CJN and what its initial structure will be.

To fulfil these duties, EL PACCTO 2.0 is looking for 2 experts: 1 from the Caribbean countries and 1 from the European countries.

The work will be done remotely and the collective sessions will be online.

It is expected to travel to Trinidad and Tobago, to the Caribbean Court of Justice, for 4 days. It will be covered directly by Expertise France – EL PACCTO 2.0 and hotel, transport and meal expenses will be reimbursed according to the procedures established by the European Commission and Expertise France in its accreditation.

• The functions to be performed by the two experts are those mentioned in the initial table:
• To determine the function and accompaniment to the designation of points of contact of the CJN;
• To draft a roadmap document establishing what needs to be done in the short and medium term to launch the CJN;
• To draft the initial structure of the CJN.

The launch of the CJN is expected to happen on December 2025. The content and methodology of these activities will be defined between the contracted experts and the EL PACCTO 2.0 Expertise France team. In general, the experts will take into account the results-based work methodology and specific work requests from the Caribbean partner institutions of the EL PACCTO 2.0 program, as well as studies, analytical work and other products of previous program activities.

Also, to the extent possible and when relevant, complementary consultations with relevant stakeholders - including the program team, Caribbean and EU institutions, civil society actors, academia and other EU and international programs and initiatives - may be carried out with the assistance of the PACCTO 2.0 team. As a reference for the experts, and taking into account the functions established for the experts in the present terms of reference, the indicative schedule of the activity will run from February to March 2025 and is estimated as follows: