Strasbourg, 1 July 2016

CEPEJ(2016)8

europEAN COMMISSION FOR THE EFFICIENCY OF Justice (CEPEJ)

27^th plenary meeting

Strasbourg, 30 June - 1 July 2016

Abridged report

A.   FOREWORD

The Council of Europe’s European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) held its 27th plenary meeting in Strasbourg on 30 June – 1 July 2016. The meeting was chaired by Mr Georg STAWA (Austria), President of the CEPEJ.

The agenda appears in the Appendix.

B.   LIST OF ITEMS DISCUSSED AND DECISIONS TAKEN BY THE CEPEJ

The CEPEJ

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

§  took note of the information given by its President, its members and its Secretariat, and in particular of the Council of Europe Plan of Action on strengthening judicial independence and impartiality (CM(2016)36;

      2.   2014-2015 Activity Report of the CEPEJ

§  adopted its 2014-2015 Activity Report (CEPEJ(2016)3) and decided to forward it to the Committee of Ministers for approval;

      3.   Evaluation process of judicial systems

§   welcomed the work achieved jointly by the members of the CEPEJ-GT-EVAL chaired by Jean-Paul JEAN (France) and the Secretariat, with the valuable support of the scientific experts: Julinda BEQIRAJ, Didier MARSHALL, Sophie SONNTAG-KOENIG, Ludivine ROUSSEY, within the framework of the 2014 – 2016 evaluation cycle, in preparing the draft reports and the dynamic data base which evaluate the functioning of judicial systems in Europe and thanked them warmly for the efforts devoted to this exercise within a strict timeframe; thanked the national correspondents who had coordinated the national replies to the evaluation scheme and had fully cooperated with the experts so that they could submit a preparatory contribution of high quality;

§   noted with satisfaction that the reports and the data base include the results of a survey carried out in 45 European states, and Israel as an observer, and that his can be considered as an essential reference tool to guide reforms of public policies of justice;

§   adopted:

-   the "Report on European judicial systems – Efficiency and quality of justice - Key facts and figures - Edition 2016" (CEPEJ(2016)1),

-   the thematic report “European judicial systems – Use of information technology in courts” (CEPEJ(2016)2

subject to written comments to be communicated by the delegations to the Secretariat before 11 July 2016, through the specific form, and taking into account the discussions during the present meeting; agreed that no new data would be accepted beyond this deadline;

§   agreed that all the data provided by the states concerned would be made available to the public on the CEPEJ website through the new dynamic CEPEJ data base; welcomed the development of this data base which is a major step forward in providing policy makers, justice professionals, researchers and the public with unprecedented interactive information to guide public policies of justice;

§   instructed the experts of the CEPEJ-GT-EVAL, under the authority of the CEPEJ Bureau, to finalise the definitive version of the report which would be made available to the members of the CEPEJ on the CEPEJ restricted website no later than 12 August 2016, bearing in mind that no further amendments would be made after 9 September 2016;

§   decided that the report would remain confidential until its official publication, to take place on 6 October 2016 within the framework of a press conference and invited all its members and observers to strictly respect this rule of confidentiality so as to ensure the relevance and coherence of the publication by the Council of Europe;

§   decided to forward the report as soon as possible to the Ministers' Deputies so that they may take note of it, possibly on 5 October 2016;

§   instructed the experts of the CEPEJ-GT-EVALto prepare an overview of the report to facilitate its understanding and reading; this overview would be submitted on 12 August 2016 to the CEPEJ for approval, through a written procedure, and published together with the report;

§   instructed the Secretariat to organise the appropriate publication and dissemination of the report, including through its website, as from 6 October 2016;

§   agreed to pursue the evaluation exercise within the framework of a new cycle, while keeping a biennial timeframe; therefore instructed the CEPEJ-GT-EVAL, in cooperation with the CEPEJ other working groups, to explore the possibility of revising some questions of the evaluation scheme and entrusted its Secretariat with adapting the evaluation scheme so as to take into account the comments by the national correspondents and the CEPEJ's members;

§   entrusted the Secretariatwith setting up a new electronic form for data collection, so as to ensure an optimum linkage with the electronic system used for data processing and analysis;

§   agreed, in accordance with its medium-term activity programme, to pursue the analysis of the facts and figures presented in the report, including by opening the use of the data to researchers who wish to benefit from the scientific support of the CEPEJ, according to modalities to be defined with the CEPEJ-GT-EVAL, under the authority of the CEPEJ Bureau;

§   took note of the information provided by its experts on the peer evaluation visits to Serbia on judicial statistics, agreed to pursue the cycle of evaluation and invited member states to propose to the Secretariat candidatures for further visits;

§   welcomed the continuation of the cooperation with the European Commission to provide it annually with a Study on the functioning of judicial systems in the EU member states, based on the CEPEJ’s own  methodology; took noteof the “EU Justice Scoreboard” published by the European Commission in April 2016; instructed the CEPEJ-GT-EVALto pursue this cooperation which strengthens the CEPEJ’s preeminent role as regards justice evaluation, as well as the synergies between the European Union and the Council of Europe in this field; 

       4.  Quality of justice

§   took note of the work carried out by the CEPEJ-GT-QUAL on driving changes towards cyberjustice, enhancing the right to an effective remedy through a better organisation of the courts, and completing the work on court users satisfaction surveys;

 

§  reiterated its invitation to volunteer courts in the member states to indicate to the Secretariat their candidature for organising a coaching programme aimed at organising user satisfaction surveys based on the CEPEJ Handbook and invited its members to inform the courts in their states of this opportunity;

       5.  Judicial time management

§   took note of the work carried out by the Steering group of the SATURN Centre to develop indicators on judicial timeframes, as well as specific cooperation conducted by the Group with the First Instance Court of Avignon (France), the Administrative First Instance Court of Thessaloniki (Greece) and the proposed cooperation with the courts in Malta;

 

§   reiterated its invitation to volunteer courts in the member states to indicate to the Secretariat their candidature for organising within the court a coaching programme aimed at implementing the SATURN tools for judicial time management based on the CEPEJ Guide and invited its members to inform the courts in their states of this opportunity;

       6.  Relations between the CEPEJ and other bodies of the Council of Europe

§  took note of the information about the activities of the Consultative Council of European Judges (CCJE) and the Consultative Council of European Prosecutors (CCPE);

 

7.   CEPEJ’s participation in Council of Europe cooperation programmes

§   welcomed the on-going cooperation programmes:

• in Albania and Kosovo*[1] as part of the "Horizontal Facility for Western Balkans and Turkey" conducted with the European Union;
• in Azerbaijan and the Republic of Moldova through the “Programmatic Cooperation Framework for the countries of the Eastern Partnership”, conducted with the European Union;
• in Turkey to develop the practice of mediation in civil disputes, with the Swedish International Cooperation Development Agency (Sida);
• in Morocco under the “Programme to support reform of the justice sector”, conducted the European Union;
• in Tunisia and Jordan as part of the Programme “Towards strengthened democratic governance in the Southern Mediterranean", conducted with the European Union.

§   welcomed the concrete results achieved with the judicial authorities and courts in Albania as part of the Programme "Increase the efficiency of the Albanian justice system, in line with European standards" conducted in cooperation with the European Union that ended in April 2016 and warmly thanked the Albanian partners for the efficient cooperation that will be continued and strengthened in the framework of the “Horizontal Facility for Western Balkans and Turkey";

§   welcomed the concrete results achieved with the judicial authorities and pilot courts in Croatia as part of the Programme "Improvement of the way cases are handled by the judicial system and introduction of SATURN time management tools in the courts " conducted in cooperation with the EEA/Norway Grants that ended in June 2016 and warmly thanked the Croatian and Norwegian partners for the efficient cooperation;

 

§   agreed to cooperate specifically with the Latvian authorities, at their request, to evaluate the functioning of their judicial system and instructed the Secretariat to implement this cooperation with members and experts of the CEPEJ; thanked Latvia for the voluntary contribution that would be given to the Council of Europe for this purpose;

§   took note of the interest of the authorities of the Slovak Republic in cooperating specifically with the CEPEJ and instructed the Secretariat to implement this cooperation with members and experts of the CEPEJ if so requested;

§  invited its members and expertswishing to participate in such programmes to make it known to the Secretariat;

       8.  Latest developments within the European Union in the judicial field

§  took note of the information given by the representative of Slovakia, speaking on behalf of the presidency of the European Union, on the recent developments within the Union in the field of justice;

 

§  took note of the “Handbook on access to justice” published jointly by the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union and the Council of Europe;

       9.  European Day of Justice and Crystal Scales of Justice

§  invited its members to forward to the Secretariat all information on the celebration of the   European Day of Justice in October 2016;

       10. Renewal of members of the Bureau

§  elected Ramin GURBANOV (Azerbaijan) as Vice-President of the CEPEJ in replacement of Irakli ADEISHVILI, until the end of 2016; elected Noel RUBOTHAM (Ireland) as member of the Bureau until the end of 2016 in replacement of Ramin GURBANOV;

11.  Observers to the CEPEJ

§  took note of the information given by its Observers, and in particular the European Association of Judges (EAM), the International Union of Bailiffs and Judicial Officers (UIHJ), the European Union of Rechtspfleger and court clerks (EUR), Magistrats Européens pour la Démocratie et les Libertés (MEDEL), the Council of the Bars and Law Societies of the European Union (CCBE) thanked them for their concrete contribution to its activities, in particular in the drafting of the report evaluating judicial systems, and invited them to further contribute to the implementation of the CEPEJ activity programme.

12.  Any other business

§  agreed that the next plenary meeting (Strasbourg, 6-7 December 2016) would be preceded on 5 December 2016 by a one-d       ay public forum on cyberjustice.

 
APPENDIX I

Agenda

1.     Opening of the meeting

2.     Adoption of the agenda

3.     Information by the President, the CEPEJ members and the Secretariat

4.     2014-2015 Activity Report of the CEPEJ: discussion in view of its adoption

Rapporteur: Ivana BORZOVA (Czech Republic)

5.     Evaluation of judicial systems

       i.       2014 – 2016 evaluation cycle

a.      Report “European judicial systems – Edition 2016: key data” : examination of the report in view of its adoption

b.      Thematic report: “The use of IT in courts” : examination of the report in view of its adoption

c.      Dynamic internet data base presenting all the CEPEJ information on European judicial systems (2014 data):  examination of the system in view of opening it to the public

d.      Publication and communication strategy

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

    iii.       Co-operation process through a peer evaluation

a.      Serbia

b.      Candidatures 2016 and 2017

6.     Information on the on-going work of the CEPEJ-GT-QUAL and the court coaching programme on satisfaction surveys

Rapporteur: Fabio BARTOLOMEO (Italy), member of the CEPEJ-GT-QUAL

7.     Information on the on-going work of the SATURN Centre and the court coaching programme on judicial time management

Rapporteur: Jacques BÜHLER (Switzerland), Chairman of the CEPEJ-SATURN

       i.       Discussion of the draft Implementation Guide : Towards European timeframes for judicial proceedings

 

      ii.       Discussion of the draft Compilation of definitions used by the CEPEJ working groups

    iii.       CEPEJ Court coaching programme on SATURN tools

a.      France (Avignon) : discussion on the establishment of a predictor of processing time

Rapporteur: Jacques BÜHLER (Switzerland)

b.      Greece (Thessaloniki)

Rapporteur: Jacques BÜHLER (Switzerland)

c.      Malta

Rapporteur: Francesco DEPASQUALE (Malta)

     iv.       Other on-going work

8.     Co-operation between the CEPEJ and the other bodies of the Council of Europe

       i.                                        Consultative Council of European Judges (CCJE)

      ii.                                        Consultative Council of European Prosecutors (CCPE)

9.     CEPEJ co-operation programmes

      i.        Albania – Support to the efficiency of Justice (SEJ) – Joint programme with the European Union

     ii.        Horizontal Facility for South-eastern Europe – Albania and Kosovo[2] - Joint programme with the European Union

    iii.        Programmatic Co-operation Framework for the countries of the Eastern partnership -  Azerbaijan and Republic of Moldova - Joint programme with the European Union

   iv.        Croatia - Improvement of the way cases are handled by the judicial system and introduction of SATURN time management tools in the courts – Co-operation with the EEA/Norway Grants

    v.        Turkey - Developing mediation practices in civil disputes – Co-operation with the Swedish agency (SIDA)

   vi.        Towards Strengthened Democratic Governance in the Southern Mediterranean – Tunisia and Jordan - Joint programme with the European Union

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

viii.                  Assessment of the functioning of the judicial system in Latvia

Rapporteur : Aija BRANTA(Latvia)

10.  Last developments within the European Union in the judicial field

Rapporteur: Ladislav DUDITS (Slovakia) on behalf of the presidency of the European Union 

11.  European Day of Justice

Information by the Secretariat

12.  Renewal of member(s) of the Bureau

13.  Observers to the CEPEJ

14.  Any other business

APPENDIX II

List of participants

CEPEJ MEMBERS / MEMBRES DE LA CEPEJ

ALBANIA/ALBANIE

Suzana FRASHERI, Inspector, Inspector Sector and Judicial Organisation, Ministry of justice,

ANDORRA/ANDORRE

Carme OBIOLS, Secrétaire Générale, Conseil Supérieur de la Justice, ANDORRA LA VELLA

ARMENIA/ARMENIE

Vigen KOCHARYAN, Vice-ministre de la Justice, Ministère de la Justice, EREVAN

AUSTRIA/AUTRICHE

Georg STAWA, Head of Department “III 8 - Objectives and Effects, Consulting and Information Management", Federal Ministry of Justice, VIENNA (President of the CEPEJ /Président de la CEPEJ)

AZERBAIJAN/AZERBAÏDJAN

Ramin GURBANOV, Judge, Baku City Yasamal District Court, Co-ordinator of Judicial Modernisation Project, BAKU

BELGIUM/BELGIQUE 

Dietger GEERAERT, Attaché, Service Public Fédéral de la Justice, BRUXELLES

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA/BOSNIE-HERZÉGOVINE

Dragomir VUKOJE, Judge of the Appellate Division of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, SARAJEVO,

BULGARIA/BULGARIE

Ekaterina TODOROVA, Senior Expert, International Legal Co-operation and European Affairs Directorate, Ministry of Justice, SOFIA

CROATIA/CROATIE

Ivan CRNČEC, assistant Minister, International Co-operation Directorate, Ministry of justice, ZAGREB Apologised / Excusé

Daška LEPPEE PAŽANIN, Ministry of Justice, European Affairs, International and Judicial Cooperation Directorate, Head of Service for the European Union, ZAGREB

CYPRUS / CHYPRE

Costas PAMBALLIS, Judge at the Supreme Court, NICOSIA

CZECH REPUBLIC/REPUBLIQUE TCHEQUE

Ivana BORZOVÁ, Head of Department of Civil Supervision, Ministry of Justice, PRAGUE 

DENMARK/DANEMARK

Marianne GRAM NYBROE, International Coordinator, Department of Training  Danish Court Administration, COPENHAGEN

ESTONIA/ESTONIE

Shirly SALM, Adviser of Court Division, Judicial Administration Policy Department, Ministry of Justice, TALLINN

Marko AAVIK, Deputy Secretary General, Judicial Administration, Ministry of Justice, TALLINN - Apologised / Excusé

Margit LAURI, Adviser, Legislation and Development Division, Judicial Administration Policy Department, Ministry of Justice, TALLINN

FINLAND/FINLANDE  

Kari Samuli KIESILĀINEN, Head of Department, Directorate General, Ministry of Justice, HELSINKI

FRANCE

Pascal MONTFORT, Adjoint au Chef du bureau de l'expertise et des questions institutionnelles, SG/Service des Affaires européennes et internationales, Ministère de la Justice, PARIS

Valéry TURCEY, Chef du Service des Affaires Européennes et Internationales, Ministère de la Justice, PARIS - Apologised / excusé

GEORGIA/GÉORGIE

Nino BAKAKURI, Judge, Supreme Court, TBILISSI

GERMANY / ALLEMAGNE

Matthias HEGER, Chef du Service de Procédure civile internationale, Ministère fédéral de la justice, BERLIN - Apologised / excusé

Martin GERLACH, Referat I A 4, Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz, BERLIN

Michael SNOWADSKY, Judge, Ministry of Justice, Baden-Württemberg, STUTTGART

GREECE/GRÈCE

Mihalis PIKRAMENOS, Councilor of State, Transparency and Human Rights, Ministry of Justice, ATHENS

HUNGARY/HONGRIE

Gábor SZÉPLAKI-NAGY,Procureur, Chef d’unité, Parquet Général, Ministère de la justice, BUDAPEST

ICELAND/ISLANDE

Arnfrídur EINARSDOTTIR, Judge at the District Court of Reykjavik, District Court of Reykjavik, REYKJAVÍK

IRELAND/IRLANDE

Noel RUBOTHAM, Head of Reform and Development, Courts Service, Green Street Courthouse, DUBLIN

Yvonne WALSH, Courts Policy Division, Department of Justice and Equality, DUBLIN

ITALY/ITALIE

Fabio BARTOLOMEO, Directeur général des statistiques, Ministère de la Justice, ROME

LATVIA/LETTONIE

Aija BRANTA, Judge of the Supreme Court, RIGA

Anna SKRJABINA, , Project Leader, European Social Fund, RIGA

LITHUANIA/LITUANIE

Laima GARNELIENE, Judge, Criminal Cases Division, Lithuanian Court of Appeal, VILNIUS

MALTA/MALTE

Francesco DEPASQUALE, Magistrate, Magistrates' Chambers, The Law Courts, VALETTA

Joanne BATTISTINO, Research and Special Projects Officer, Office of the Director General, Strategy & Support, Ministry For Justice, Culture and Local Government, VALLETTA

REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA/REPUBLIQUE DE MOLDOVA

Lilia GRIMALSCHI, Head of Analysis and Execution of ECHR judgments Division, General Directorate of Government Agent, Ministry of Justice, CHISINAU

MONACO

Sébastien BIANCHERI, Premier juge au tribunal de première instance, Palais de Justice, MONACO

NETHERLANDS/PAYS‑BAS

Frans VAN DER DOELEN, Programme Manager of the Department of the Justice System, Ministry of Justice, THE HAGUE – Apologised / excusé

NORWAY/NORVÈGE

Audun BERG, Senior Advisor, The National Courts Administration, OSLO

POLAND/POLOGNE

Michał DĄBROWSKI, Judge, main expert in the Department of Courts, Organisation and Judicial Analyses,

WARSAW  

PORTUGAL 

João ARSENIO DE OLIVEIRA, Head of Department International Affairs Department, Directorate General for Justice Policy, Ministry of Justice, LISBON -  Apologised / excusé

Sara NUNES DE ALMEIDA, Head of unit, Civil Justice, Citizenship and International Litigation Unit, Directorate General for Justice Policy, International Affairs Department, Ministry of Justice, LISBON

ROMANIA/ROUMANIE

Violeta BELEGANTE, Conseiller juridique, Chef du service du droit privé, Direction de  l'Elaboration des actes normatifs, des études et de la documentation, Ministère de la Justice, BUCAREST

THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION/FÉDÉRATION DE RUSSIE

Alexandra DRONOVA, Director of the Department of Legal Assistance and Cooperation with the Judiciary of the Ministry of Justice, MOSCOW

Alexander PARSHIN, Deputy Director General of the Judicial Department of the Supreme Court, MOSCOW

Anastasia MOSKALENKO, Acting Head of the Division of International Legal Cooperation of The Judicial Department of the Supreme Court, MOSCOW

Alexandra KRIVOSHEEVA, deputy head of the Notariat Division of the Department of Legal Assistance and Cooperation with the Judiciary of the Ministry of Justice, MOSCOW

SERBIA/SERBIE

Nela KUBUROVIĆ, Assistant Minister for Judiciary, Ministry of Justice, BELGRADE - Apologised / excusée

Ivana NINČIĆ, National Correspondent to the CEPEJ, Ministry of Justice, BELGRADE

SLOVAK REPUBLIC/RÉPUBLIQUE SLOVAQUE

Ladislav DUDITS, Judge, Kosice Regional Court, Krajsky sud v Kosiciach, KOSICE

SLOVENIA /SLOVENIE

Marko ŠORLI, Head of Criminal Division, Supreme Court, LJUBLJANA

SPAIN/ESPAGNE

María Aránzazu ALAMEDA LÓPEZ, Judicial counsellor, Legal Adviser at the Legal Cooperation Directorate and Relations with Faith Communities, Ministry of Justice, C/ San Bernardo, MADRID

SWEDEN/SUÈDE

Jenny LINDESTAM, Legal Advisor, Legal department, The Swedish National Courts Administration, JÖNKÔPING

SWITZERLAND/SUISSE

Jacques BÜHLER, Secrétaire Général suppléant, Tribunal fédéral suisse, LAUSANNE

Lorenzo EGLOFF, Adjoint au Secrétaire général au Tribunal fédéral, LAUSANNE

"THE FORMER YOUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA"/"L'EX-RÉPUBLIQUE YOUGOSLAVE DE MACÉDOINE"

Nikola PROKOPENKO, Head of Department of Courts, Public Prosecutors and other Judicial institutions, Ministry of Justice, SKOPJE 

TURKEY/TURQUIE

Ibrahim ÇETIN, Ministry of Justice, Judge, Head of Department Directorate General for Strategy Development, ANKARA

Elif ÖZALP ERGÜN, Judge, Strategy Development Department, Ministry of Justice, ANKARA

UKRAINE

Polina KAZAKEVYCH, Head of International Department of the High Qualification Commission of Judges, KYIV

Igor SAMSIN, Président de la haute cour à la qualification des juges, Ministry of Justice, KYIV

UNITED KINGDOM/ROYAUME‑UNI

Robert WRIGHT, Civil Litigation Funding and Costs, Access to Justice, Ministry of Justice, LONDON

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SCIENTIFIC EXPERTS / EXPERTS SCIENTIFIQUES

Julinda BEQIRAJ, Associate Senior Research Fellow,Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL), LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM

Ludivine Roussey, Maître de conférences en sciences économiques, LIRAES (EA 4470), PARIS, FRANCE

Sophie Sontag-Koenig, Docteur en droit, Chargée de mission à l'Institut des hautes études sur la justice, PARIS, FRANCE

OBSERVER STATES TO THE CEPEJ / ÉTATS OBSERVATEURSAUPRES DE LA CEPEJ

ISRAEL / ISRAËL

Gali AVIV, Director of the Israeli Courts Research Division, The Supreme Court of Israel, JERUSALEM

Inbal GALON, Researcher at the Courts Research Division, The Supreme Court of Israel, JERUSALEM

JAPAN / JAPON

Shun KITAGAWA, Consulat Général du Japon à Strasbourg, STRASBOURG, FRANCE

MOROCCO / MAROC

Meriem EL HILALI, Vice Consul, Service des Institutions Européennes, Consulat Général du Royaume du Maroc à Strasbourg, STRASBOURG, FRANCE

Karim HARROUCHE, Magistrat, détaché au Secrétariat Général, Ministère de la Justice, RABAT

Abderrafi EROUIHANE, Directeur des études de la coopération et de la modernisation, Ministère de la justice et des libertés, RABAT

TUNISIA / TUNISIE

Raja BOUSSEMA, chargée de mission Coopération internationale au Cabinet du ministre de la Justice, coordinatrice générale du projet CEPEJ, TUNIS

Hamida LAARIF, personne de contact CEPEJ auprès de la Cour de cassation, TUNIS

OBSERVERS / OBSERVATEURS

COUNCIL OF THE BARS AND LAW SOCIETIES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION / CONSEIL DES BARREAUX EUROPÉENS (CCBE)

Simone CUOMO, Senior Legal Advisor, BRUXELLES, BELGIUM

EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF JUDGES / Association européenne des MAGISTRATS (EAJ)

Gerhard REISSNER, Vice-President of the Austrian Association of Judges, President of the District Court of Floridsdorf, AUSTRIA/AUTRICHE

EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGES (EFAJ) / FÉDÉRATION EUROPÉENNE DES JUGES ADMINISTRATIFS (FEJA)

Pierre VINCENT, Président maintenu en activité près le tribunal administratif, Cour d’Appel administrative de Nancy, NANCY, FRANCE

EUROPEAN UNION OF RECHTSPFLEGER AND COURT CLERKS / UNION EUROPÉENNE DES GREFFIERS DE JUSTICE (EUR)

Jean-Jacques KUSTER, Président de l’EUR, Greffier en Chef, Tribunal d’Instance, STRASBOURG, FRANCE

Vivien WHYTE, Représentant de l'EUR, Directeur stagiaire des services de greffe judiciaires, Ecole Nationale des Greffes, DIJON, FRANCE 

EUROOPEAN JUDICIAL TRAINING NETWORK / RESEAU EUROPEEN DE FORMATION JUDICIAIRE  

Wojciech POTULSKI, Secrétaire Général du Réseau européen de formation judiciaire (REFJ), BRUXELLES, Belgique - Apologised / excusé 

INTERNATIONAL UNION OF BAILIFFS / UNION INTERNATIONALE DES HUISSIERS DE JUSTICE ET OFFICIERS JUDICIAIRES (UIHJ)

Françoise ANDRIEUX, Présidente, PARIS, FRANCE

Mathieu CHARDON, Huissier de justice, Premier secrétaire de l’UIHJ, MONFORT L’AMAURY, FRANCE

 

MAGISTRATS EUROPÉENS POUR LA DÉMOCRATIE ET LES LIBERTÉS (MEDEL)

Thomas GUDDAT, Vice-President, BERLIN, GERMANY

WORLD BANK / BANQUE MONDIALE

Amitabha MUKHERJEE, Lead Public Sector Specialist, Governance Global Practice, WASHINGTON

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EUROPEAN UNION / UNION EUROPÉENNE

european CommisSion / Commission européenne

Ingo WEUSTENFELD, Policy officer, Directorate General Justice and Consumers, Unit 03 - General justice policies and judicial systems, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM

Jan PETRY, Policy officer, Directorate General Justice and Consumers, Unit 02 – Interinstitutional and international relations, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM

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COUNCIL OF EUROPE / CONSEIL DE L’EUROPE

EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS (ECHR) / COUR EUROPÉENNE DES DROITS DE L’HOMME (CEDH)

Paola TONARELLI-LACORE, Registry of the European Court of Human Rights / Greffe de la Cour européenne des droits de l’Homme

CONSULTATIVE COUNCIL OF EUROPEAN JUDGES / CONSEIL CONSULTATIF DE JUGES EUROPEENS (CCJE)

Jean-Claude WIWINIUS, Vice-Président de Chambre, Cour Supérieure de Justice, Cité Judiciaire, LUXEMBOURG

CONSULTATIVE COUNCIL OF EUROPEAN PROSECUTORS / Conseil consultatif de procureurs européens(CCPE)

Cédric VISART de BOCARME, Président du CCPE, Magistrat Fédéral au Parquet Fédéral Belge, Chargé des relations Internationales, Ancien Procureur Général de Liège, BRUXELLES, BELGIQUE

EUROPEAN COMMITTEE ON LEGAL CO-OPERATION / COMITE EUROPÉEN DE COOPÉRATION JURIDIQUE (CDCJ)

João ARSENIO DE OLIVEIRA, Head of Department International Affairs Department, Directorate General for Justice Policy, Ministry of Justice, LISBON, PORTUGAL-  Apologised / excusé

EUROPEAN COMMITTEE FOR CRIME PROBLEMS / COMITE EUROPEEN POUR LES PROBLÈMES CRIMINELS (CDPC): Apologised / excusé

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SECRETARIAT

DGI – Human Rights and Rule of Law – Division for the Independence and Efficiency of Justice /

DGI - Droits de l’Homme et Etat de droit – Division pour l’indépendance et l’efficacité de la justice

Hanne JUNCHER, Head of the Justice and Legal Co-operation Department / Service de la cooperation judiciaire et juridique

Stéphane LEYENBERGER, Head of the Division for the independence and efficiency of justice – Executive Secretary of the CEPEJ / Chef de la Division pour l’indépendance et l’efficacité de la justice,  Secrétaire executif de la CEPEJ

Clementina BARBARO, Administrator / Administratrice

Lidija NAUMOVSKA, Statistician Administrator /Administratrice statisticienne

Yannick MENECEUR, Administrator / Administrateur

Annette SATTEL, Administration and Networks / Administration et Réseaux

Guergana LAZAROVA-DECHAUX, Principal Adminsitrative Assistant, /Assistante administrative principale

Félicie DIARD-DETOEUF, Principal  Administrative Assistant / Assistante administrative principale

Elisabeth HEURTEBISE, Assistant/Assistante

Emily WALKER, Assistant/Assistante

TRAINEES / STAGIAIRES

Jessica VIOLA

Camille LOTH

INTERPRETERS / INTERPRÈTES

Pascale MICHLIN

Didier JUNGLING

Nadine KIEFFER

Tatiana JAUVERT

Natalia TVERE