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The European Union Integrated Rule of Law Mission in Iraq, (EUJUST LEX), is a European Union mission to support and train judges, prison officials and other justice-sector workers in Iraq, to improve the rule of law and protection for human rights.
Headquarters | Baghdad, Iraq |
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Parent organization | European Union |
EUJUST LEX is part of the European Union's External Action service. The mission has around 50-60 staff,[1] with members from several different EU (and non-EU) states.[2] It is divided into three main teams - supporting courts, police, and prisons respectively.
Support for the rule of law was requested by Ibrahim al-Jaafari, who was president of Iraq's interim government. EUJUST LEX was created by decision 6328/05 of the Council of the European Union; it started operations in July 2005, with Stephen White as the head of mission. The mandate has been extended repeatedly; the most recent extension, approved in June 2012 by a meeting of 27 EU ambassadors, continues until 31 December 2013.[3] It was initially headquartered in Brussels, for security reasons, with a small liaison office in the British embassy in Baghdad;[4] but this moved to Baghdad in early 2011. There are also offices in Erbil and Basra.[5]
As of 2012[update], EUJUST LEX had trained over 5000 Iraqi officials[6] and the total cost of the mission was around €118 million.[7]
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