The goal of integrating European standards into the domestic legal field and the practice of functioning of judicial authorities is to ensure Ukraine's approach to European integration. It should be noted that an independent judiciary, staffed with high-quality and honest judicial personnel, is not conditioned by the need for European integration – it is conditioned by national interests, social needs and the need of every person for a fair trial and judicial protection of the rights and freedoms of a person and a citizen. However, in the current conditions, achieving a high quality of organizational and legal support for the functioning of the judiciary is also a key condition for European integration. The article is devoted to the generalization of the prospects of adapting the system of development of professional legal awareness of judges to the requirements of European standards of the judicial system. The need to study the phenomenon of legal awareness through the prism of its representation in European standards of the judicial system is emphasized. It is proposed to consider the system of formation, improvement and monitoring of professional legal awareness of judges as the central object of reforms. For each of the directions, an analysis of European standards was carried out, and recommendations related to the development of the professional legal awareness of the judge were formed. As a result of the conducted research, we justified the feasibility of developing a secondary mechanism for assessing the level of professional legal awareness of a judge, which is based on the processing of information received by the bodies of the justice system in the exercise of their powers with the aim of identifying risks and threats in the profiles of individual judges, as well as establishing directions for the development of professional legal awareness in connection with the change in the circumstances of the functioning of the judiciary.