Strasbourg, 25 June 2018

CEPEJ/ODJ(2018)Eprov8

EUROPEAN COMMISSION FOR THE EFFICIENCY OF JUSTICE (CEPEJ)

30th plenary meeting – 15th anniversary of the CEPEJ

Wednesday, 27 June 2018 (9.00 am) - Friday, 29 June 2018 (6.00 pm)

Strasbourg – Agora

Room G03

Draft agenda

Documents preceded by the following diagram  will be submitted for examination by the CEPEJ in view of their adoption

The working documents are available, in restricted access, on the CEPEJ collaborative workspace

if you experience a connection problem, or for any other information, please contact: cepej@coe.int

  1. Opening of the meting

·         Gabriella BATTAINI-DRAGONI, Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe

·         Georg STAWA, President of the CEPEJ

  1. STUDY SESSION: “ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE (IA) AND JUDICIAL SYSTEMS”

09.30 – 10.00:         AI to serve the efficiency and the quality of justice

Giuseppe CONTISSA, Professor in Legal Informatics at LUISS University, Rome (Italy)

10.00 – 10.30:         What is AI?

Jean LASSÈGUE, Philosopher and epistemologist, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) research fellow and associate searcher at Advanced study institute on justice (IHEJ) (France)

10.30 – 10.45:         Coffee break

10.45 – 11.15:         AI and criminal justice

Aleš ZAVRŠNIK, Senior research fellow at the Institute of Criminology, associate professor at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana University (Slovenia) and EURIAS Research Fellow 2017-18 at the Collegium Helveticum in Zürich

11.15 – 11.45:         What role for AI in a judge's decision-making process ?

Dory REILING, Honorary senior judge, independent information technology and judicial reform expert (Netherlands)

11.45 – 12.15:         Towards a European ethic for algorithms?

Exchange of views with the CEPEJ members

Francesco CONTINI, Senior researcher at the Research Institute on judicial systems - National Research Council (IRSIG-CNR), Bologna  (Italy)

12.15 – 12.30          Presentation of the CEPEJ working plan and conclusions

João ARSÉNIO DE OLIVEIRA, (Portugal) Chairman of the CEPEJ-GT-QUAL (Working group on the quality of justice)

 

  1. Adoption of the agenda           

  1. Information by the President, members of the CEPEJ and the Secretariat

  1. Recent developments in the judicial field in the Council of Europe Member states

Delegations are invited, if they so wish, to inform the CEPEJ on recent significant developments in their countries in the judicial field since June 2017, where appropriate.

6.     Evaluation of judicial systems

Rapporteur: Jean-Paul JEAN, (France), Chair of the CEPEJ-GT-EVAL

                 i.       2016 – 2018 evaluation cycle

·           Report “European judicial systems – Edition 2018” : examination of the report in view of its adoption

·           CEPEJ-STAT (Dynamic internet data base presenting all the CEPEJ information on European judicial systems) - 2016 updated data

·           Publication and communication strategy

               ii.       Co-operation with the European Union within the framework of the “EU Justice Scoreboard”

 

              iii.       Reports on justice professionals

              iv.       Co-operation process through a peer evaluation

a.    Montenegro

b.    Georgia

c.    Candidatures 2018 and 2019

WORKING DOCUMENTS

 Draft Report “European judicial systems – Edition 2018”

CEPEJ(2018)5Prov

CEPEJ dynamic data base on European judicial systems

European Union Justice Scoreboard 2018

Peer review on judicial statistics – Tbilissi, Georgia – Visit report

CEPEJ-GT-EVAL(2017)13

Peer review on judicial statistics – Podgorica, Montenegro – Visit report

CEPEJ-GT-EVAL(2018)6

Contribution of the Council of the Notariats of the European Union (CNUE)

CEPEJ-GT-EVAL(2017)9rev2

Contribution of the International Union of Judicial Officers (UIHJ)

CEPEJ-GT-EVAL(2018)5Rev1

[French only]

  1. Quality of justice: information on the on-going work of the CEPEJ-GT-QUAL

Rapporteur: Joao Arsenio de OLIVEIRA (Portugal), Chair of the CEPEJ-GT-QUAL

Reference document

Report of the 23rd meeting of the CEPEJ-GT-QUAL

CEPEJ-GT-QUAL(2018)5

  1. Judicial time management: information on the on-going work of the SATURN Centre

Rapporteur: Giacomo OBERTO (Italy), Chair of the Steering group of the SATURN Centre

WORKING DOCUMENT

Court coaching report – Caseweighting

CEPEJ-SATURN(2018)1Rev1

REFERENCE DOCUMENT

Report of the 23st meeting of CEPEJ-SATURN

CEPEJ-SATURN(2018)3

  1. Mediation: information on the on-going workn of the CEPEJ-GT-MED

Rapporteur: Rimantas SIMAITIS (Lithuania), Chair of the CEPEJ-GT-MED

a.         Road map of the CEPEJ-GT-MED : examination in view of its adoption

b.         Mediation Development Toolkit : examination in view of its adoption

WORKING DOCUMENTS

  Road Map of the CEPEJ-GT-MED

CEPEJ(2018)8

 Mediation Development Toolkit

CEPEJ(2017)7

REFERENCE DOCUMENT

Report of the 3th meeting of CEPEJ-GT-MED

CEPEJ-GT-MED(2018)4

  1. Ad hoc Working Group for the harmonisation of the definitions used by CEPEJ

Rapporteur: Laetitia BRUNIN (France)

  1. CEPEJ’s cooperation programmes

                 i.     Completed programmes

·           Towards a strengthened democratic governance in the Southern Mediterranean – Tunisia, Jordan - South Programme 2 

·           Evaluation of the Latvian judicial system – Voluntary contribution

               ii.     On-going programmes

·           Horizontal Facility for Western Balkans – Albania and Kosovo* - Joint programme with the European Union

·           Strengthening the efficiency and quality of the Slovak judicial system – Voluntary Contribution

·           Programme to support the justice sector reform - improving the functioning of justice in Morocco by using the tools of CEPEJ - Joint Programme with the European Union

·           Ensuring Sustainable Democratic Governance and Human Rights in the Southern Mediterranean  (South Programme 3) – Tunisia – Joint Programme with the European Union

              iii.     Forthcoming programmes

·           Support the preparation of an Action Plan for the improvement of the effectiveness of the justice system in Slovenia – to be funded by the European Comission Structural Reform Support Service

·           Promoting cyberjustice in Spain through change management and improvement of data collection – to be funded by the European Comission Structural Reform Support Service

·           Supporting the efficiency of justice in Malta – to be funded by the European Commission Structural Reform Support Service

WORKING DOCUMENT

State of the implementation of the CEPEJ co-operation programmes

CEPEJ-COOP(2018)9

  1. Comments of the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) on the Recommendation 2121(2018) of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on "The case for drafting a European convention on the profession of lawyer"

Rapporteur: Georg STAWA, President of the CEPEJ

WORKING DOCUMENT

 Draft comments of the CEPEJ prepared by the Bureau

CEPEJ(2018)6Prov

  1. Relations between the CEPEJ and other Council of Europe Institutions

·           Consultative Council of European Judges (CCJE)

·           Consultative Council of European Prosecutors (CCPE)

·           European Committee for Legal Cooperation (CDCJ)

  1. Other cooperation scheme with the European Union : latest developments within the European Union in the judicial field

Rapporteurs: Ekaterina TODOROVA (Bulgaria) and Georg STAWA (Austria) on behalf of the outgoing and incoming presidency of the European Union 

  1. European Day of Justice

Rapporteur: Secretariat

  1. Cooperation with the Law Faculty of Strasbourg, including the “Junior Crystal Scales of Justice”

Rapporteur: Secretariat

  1. Report by the Secretary General of the Council of Europe: “The state of democracy, human rights and the Rule of law in Europe”

Rapporteur: Secretariat

REFERENCE DOCUMENT

2018 Report by the Secretary General of the Council of Europe:

 “The state of democracy, human rights and the rule of law in Europe”

  1. Observers to the CEPEJ

Organisations who have been granted observer status with the CEPEJ are entitled, if they wish, to make an oral presentation of their current activities relevant to the CEPEJ and/or submit a written information to the Secretariat which could be distributed during the meeting.

  1. Working methods of the CEPEJ: how to have and train more CEPEJ experts to participate to cooperation activities?

·           CEPEJ experts training

·           CEPEJ Deputy members

20.  Any other business

general background documents

Abridged Report of the 29th plenary meeting of the CEPEJ

CEPEJ(2017)7

Report of the 31st meeting of the CEPEJ Bureau

CEPEJ-BU(2018)2

CEPEJ Activity Programme 2018 - 2019

CEPEJ(2017)10