“Improving the quality and efficiency of the judicial system through infrastructure development and better management”

Component II: “Improvement of the way cases are handled by the judicial system by applying tried and tested methodologies developed by

the Council of Europe”

Co-operation programme

between the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Croatia

and

the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ)

Venue:  Ministry of Justice, Ulica grada Vukovara 49, Zagreb, Croatia

9h00 - 9h15               Welcome and foreword by Mr Ivan Crnčec, Assistant Minister

9h15 - 11h00            Presentation of the Judicial Performance Framework - Ms Nikolina Milić

-          Legislative basis for the Judicial Performance Framework and reasons for Framework

                                         Amendments

11h00 - 12h30          Specific discussion on standards, norms and case-weighting

-       Presentation of the existing Croatian case-weighting system (implementation of the Framework criteria in ICMS- practical examples)  - Ms Martina Vrdoljak

-       Presentation of existing tools of case weighting in other European countries – Mr Georg Stawa

-       Specific discussion on what could be an ideal case weighting system / on what could be improved in the existing system in Croatia

12h30 – 14h00         Lunch

14h00 – 16h45         Discussion on the possible improvements to be brought to the new version of the Judicial Performance Framework

16h45 – 17h00         Conclusion: Feedback – Follow-up of this meeting, future tasks, calendar of work

17h00                          End of the meeting

CEPEJ Experts

Mr Gilles Accomando, President of the High instance Court of Avignon, France

APOLOGIZED

Mr Georg Stawa, Georg STAWA, Head of Department, Strategy and Innovation, Federal Ministry of Justice (Chair of the CEPEJ)

Council of Europe

Mr Paul MEYER , Project Manager, CEPEJ Secretariat, Tel: +33 3 90 21 55 22, e-mail: [email protected]

Ministry of Justice

Mr Ivan CRNČEC, Assistant Minister of Justice, Directorate for European affairs, International and Judicial Co-operation

Ms Gordana KLARIĆ, Assistant Minister of Justice, Directorate for Judicial Organization

Ms Nikolina MILIĆ, Head of Sector, Directorate for Judicial Organization

Ms Karolina DRAGIČEVIĆ, Judicial inspector, Directorate for Judicial Organization

Ms Sonja GUNDIĆ BIŠKUP, Judicial inspector, Directorate for Judicial Organization

Ms Martina VRDOLJAK, Head of Department, Directorate for Judicial Organization

Ms Mirna MINAUF, Directorate for European affairs, International and Judicial Co-operation,