News 2025/12/28

EJF Contribution to Upcoming Irish Presidency Priorities

EJF contributed to the consultation shaping the priorities and policy programme for Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the EU in 2026.

Ireland will hold the EU Presidency for the eighth time from July–December 2026, at a pivotal moment for Europe’s competitiveness, economic security and trust in democratic institutions. As highlighted in the 2026 Commission Work Programme under Sustainable Prosperity and Competitiveness, Europe must unlock the full potential of the Single Market by 2028 and strengthen support for SMEs, enterprises, and innovative startups. A key priority identified by the European Justice Forum is the urgent need to reduce regulatory fragmentation related to Third-Party Litigation Funding (TPLF) in the EU.

A harmonised EU approach would:
- Protect industries, consumers, SMEs and startups alike
- Standardize safeguards and increase transparency
- Address the risk of non-EU actors using TPLF to undermine EU economic security
- Strengthen EU competitiveness and protect innovation

Ireland’s 2026 Presidency represents a crucial opportunity to advance a balanced, transparent and fair framework that supports innovation and growth while preserving the integrity of Europe’s legal systems.

To see EJF's Contribution please click here.
To learn more about TPLF visit EJF's Position

News 2026/01/21

Joint Business Statements on TPLF

On 21 January 2026, a cross-sector group of business associations issued a joint statement renewing their call for proportionate, harmonised EU-level rules on professional third-party litigation funding (TPLF). The statement highlights the rapid expansion of for-profit litigation funding in Europe, which continues to operate with limited transparency and fragmented oversight, despite the presence of more than 300 funders in the EU. This regulatory gap risks distorting litigation incentives, undermining trust in justice systems and the Single Market, and imposing significant costs on businesses, competitiveness and innovation.

The associations urged the European Commission to prioritise TPLF by launching a Call for Evidence and advancing binding EU-level safeguards. Key priorities should include:

- Be binding on all commercially active for-profit third party funders

- Address the risks of conflicts of interest maliciously-motivated funding transparency about funding sources and inadequate funding reserves

- Fully respect the principles of proportionality and subsidiarity and Member States’ procedural autonomy and

- Focus on professional for-profit funding arrangements where divergent national approaches create legal uncertainty and risks of forum shopping.

See the full text here.

News 2026/01/19

EJF National Contributions to PLD Transposition

Starting 2026 with wishes to our Members, European and National Institutions and Partners a prosperous year from Brussels!

With intensive works across Europe on transposing the EU Product Liability Directive (PLD), EJF
has participated with our submission to the PLD consultation in Sweden – you can find it here.

Take a moment to learn more about Product Liability from the materials available on our EJF website or from the @ECIPE occasional paper on Germany:
The Economic Risks of Transposing the EU Product Liability Directive in Germany

News 2025/11/28

A new chapter begins for EJF, welcome Agata!

Agata Boutanos became CEO of the European Justice Forum with effect of 1st December 2025.

Agata specializes in strategic communication towards the European environment. Over the course of sixteen years she has been involved in determining the impact of policies on business activities and translating the needs of market entities into effective communication campaigns.

Prior to joining the EJF, she has started and led Brussels based offices of Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers and European Enterprise Alliance, as well as built first Public Affairs team in Poland and Europe for Tauron Polska Energia (TPE), to later become the company’s representative in Brussels as Head of International and Government Affairs. Since 2008, Agata has worked with EU institutions and in the private sector and co-designed EU decision making trainings since 2016. Agata held various strategic communication roles in CEC Government Relations, where she led the Energy and Environment practice, served EMEA Region as a Energy Partner of the Polish Economic Congress Foundation at the Employers of Poland, and at Dow Corning as European Government Affairs Associate in Brussels.

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