Strasbourg, 15 March 2018
CEPEJ-GT-EVAL(2018)4
EUROPEAN COMMISSION FOR THE EFFICIENCY OF JUSTICE
(CEPEJ)
WORKING GROUP ON THE EVALUATION OF JUDICIAL SYSTEMS
(CEPEJ-GT-EVAL)
Ad hoc meeting
19 February 2018
MEETING REPORT
Document prepared by the Secretariat
Directorate General I – Human Rights and Rule of Law
INTRODUCTION
1. The Working Group on the evaluation of judicial systems (CEPEJ-GT-EVAL) of the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) held an ad hoc meeting on 19 February 2018, in Paris, with Jean-Paul JEAN (France) in the chair. The purpose of this meeting is to meet the experts who will be in charge for drafting the various chapters of the next CEPEJ evaluation report on judicial systems (2016-2018 cycle).
2. The agenda and the list of participants appears in Appendix I and II to this report.
2016 – 2018 EVALUATION CYCLE
3. The CEPEJ Evaluation Working Group decided at its 33rd meeting (27-28 September 2017) to call upon experts to draw up the different chapters of the next CEPEJ evaluation report on judicial systems (cycle 2016-2018).
4. Taking into account the chapters and topics dealt with (budgets of the judicial systems/personnel of justice and lawyers including the question of parity between men and women/organisation of the courts and users of the courts/efficiency and quality of the activity of the courts and public prosecutors' offices), seven experts were selected, six of whom were present at this meeting:
· Julinda Beqiraj (Albania) (excused)
· Caroline Foulquier-Expert (France)
· Fotis Karayannopoulou (Greece)
· Hélène Pauliat (France)
· Francesco Perrone (Italy)
· Federica Viapiana (Italy)
· Jasa Vrabec (Slovenia)
5. This meeting made it possible in particular to consider with the experts present:
their mission within the framework of the evaluation exercise;
· the objectives of the report on evaluation of the judicial systems of the CEPEJ ;
· the methodology specific to the evaluation exercise and in particular to the data collection and the quality control of the data submitted by the CEPEJ national correspondents;
· the specific tools to this exercise: questionnaires (main and additional concerning gender equality) and explanatory notes ;
· applications for collecting data (CEPEJ-COLLECT) and presenting them interactively (CEPEJ-STAT);
· the application that will be made available to them to facilitate their analyses (Tableau Reader);
· the calendar and the next deadlines (Annex III);
· the number of participants in the exercise and an initial assessment of this participation;
· the main points to be analysed for each chapter;
· the latest version of the report and the document presenting the report.
6. The Secretariat is currently controlling the quality of the data and will send the experts all the data, comments and tables needed to draft the chapters concerned by 13 May 2018. Before doing so, the experts should indicate to the Secretariat which tables they would like to see in their chapter.
Annexe I
AGENDA / ORDRE DU JOUR
1. Adoption of the agenda / Adoption de l’ordre du jour
2. Information by the members of the GT and the Secretariat / Information des membres du GT et du Secrétariat
3. 2016 – 2018 Evaluation cycle / Cycle d’évaluation 2016 – 2018
a. Presentation of the CEPEJ evaluation cycle (methodology, collection and quality control of the data, calendar, participants) / Présentation du cycle d’évaluation de la CEPEJ (méthodologie, collecte et contrôle de qualité des données, calendrier, participants)
b. Presentation of the CEPEJ tools for the evaluation cycle / Présentation des outils de la CEPEJ pour le cycle d’évaluation
· Scheme, explanatory note / Grille, note explicative
· CEPEJ-COLLECT, CEPEJ-STAT, Tableau Desktop
c. Presentation of the last version of the CEPEJ evaluation report (cycle 2014-2016) / Présentation de la dernière version du rapport d’évaluation de la CEPEJ (cycle 2014-2016)
d. Discussion on the content of the general report and overview / Discussion sur le contenu du rapport et du document de présentation
Annexe II
List of Participants / Liste des participants
Members / Membres
Ramin GURBANOV, Judge, Baku City Yasamal District court, BAKU, AZERBAIJAN, Tel: +994 12510 0444 / +994 50214 0444, e-mail: [email protected]; (Vice President of CEPEJ / Vice-Président de la CEPEJ)
Adis HODZIC, Senior Advisor for Statistics High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kraljice Jelene 88, 7100 SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, e-mail: [email protected]
Jean-Paul JEAN, Président de chambre à la Cour de cassation, 5 Quai de l’Horloge, 75055 PARIS CEDEX, FRANCE, Tél. : +33 (0)1 44 32 94 65/ sec. : +33 (0)1 46 34 67 40, e-mail : [email protected](President of the GT-EVAL / Président du GT-EVAL)
Simone KREβ, Vice-President, Landgericht Köln, Luxemburger Str. 101, 50939 KÖLN, GERMANY,
Tel: +49 221 477 2712, Tel: +49 221 477 2700, e-mail: [email protected] (excusée)
Jaša VRABEC, Head of the Office for Court Management Development, Supreme Court, Tavčarjeva 9, 1000 LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA, Tel: +386 1 434 27 85, e-mail: [email protected]
Martina Vrdoljak, head of department for statistics, analytic and strategic development of Judiciary, Directorate for organisation of Judiciary, Ministry of justice, Ulica grada Vukovara 49, 10000 ZAGREB, CROATIA, Tel: + 01/3714-345, e-mail: [email protected]
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EXPERTS
Julinda BEQIRAJ, Associate Senior Research Fellow, Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law,British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL), Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London, Great Britain, Tel : +44 (0)20 7862 5171 , e-mail: [email protected]
Caroline FOULQUIER-EXPERT, Docteur en droit public, Maître de conférences de l'Université de Limoges, France, Tel +33 6 82 48 60 52; e-mail: [email protected]
Hélène PAULIAT, Professeur de droit public (OMIJ), Présidente honoraire de l'Université de Limoges, 5, rue Félix Eboué, 87031 Limoges, Tel : +33 6 08 17 71 52, e-mail : [email protected]
Fotis A. KARAYANNOPOULOS, Lawyer, 10 Kapsali street, 106 74, Athens, Greece, Tel : +30 21 06 77 43 69, e-mail: [email protected]
Francesco PERRONE, Juge au Tribunal de Padoue, 35131 Padoue, Italie, Tel : +39 32 82 65 66 71, e-mail : [email protected]
Federica VIAPIANA, Research Fellow at IRSIG-CNR, Via Petralata 65, 40122, Bologne, Italie, Tel : +39 38 94 21 68 89, e-mail [email protected]
Jaša VRABEC, Head of the Office for Court Management Development, Supreme Court, Tavčarjeva 9, 1000 LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA, Tel: +386 1 434 27 85, e-mail: [email protected]
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COUNCIL OF EUROPE / CONSEIL DE L’EUROPE
Secretariat
Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law (DG I)
Division for the Independence and Efficiency of Justice/
Direction Générale des Droits de l’Homme et Etat de droit (DG I)
Division pour l’indépendance et l’efficacité de la justice
E-mail: [email protected]
Muriel DECOT, Co-Secretary of the CEPEJ / Co-secrétaire de la CEPEJ, Tél: +33 (0)3 90 21 44 55, e-mail : [email protected]
Christel SCHURRER, Administrator, Secretary of the CEPEJ-GT-EVAL / Administratrice, Secrétaire du CEPEJ-GT-EVAL, Tél : +33 (0)3 90 21 56 97, e-mail: [email protected]
Yannick MENECEUR, Administrator / Administrateur, Tél : +33 (0)3 90 21 53 59, e-mail: [email protected]
Lidija NAUMOVSKA, Administrator, Statistician / Administratrice, statisticienne, Tél: +33 (0)3 88 41 22 49,
e-mail: [email protected]
Annexe III
