CCPE(2012)5
Strasbourg, 27 November 2012
CONSULTATIVE COUNCIL OF EUROPEAN PROSECUTORS (CCPE)
7th plenary meeting
Strasbourg, 26-27 November 2012
MEETING REPORT
A. FOREWORD
1. The Consultative Council of European Prosecutors (CCPE) met at the Council of Europe headquarters in Strasbourg, France, on 26 and 27 November 2012 with Mr João Manuel DA SILVA MIGUEL (Portugal) in the chair. The agenda is appended and the list of participants is available from the Secretariat.
B. ITEMS SUBMITTED TO THE COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS FOR DECISION
2. The CCPE invited the Committee of Ministers:
a. to take note of Opinion No. 7 (2012) on “The management of the means of prosecution services”,
and of the fact that this document would be forwarded to the relevant bodies in the member states, who would be encouraged to translate it into appropriate languages if need be, and to the relevant bodies of the Council of Europe in order that they can have account of it in their own work;
b. take note of the present report as a whole.
C. ITEMS SUBMITTED TO THE COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS FOR INFORMATION
The CCPE:
3. confirmed that the Opinion of the CCPE in 2013 would be on the subject of the relations between prosecutors and the media, in accordance with its terms of Reference as adopted by the Committee of Ministers;
4. appointed Ms Nelly HARUTYUNYAN (Armenia), Mr Olivier de BAYNAST (France), Mr Peter POLT (Hungary), Mr Peter McCORMICK (Ireland), Mr Jean-Pierre DRENO (Monaco), Mr João Manuel DA SILVA MIGUEL (Portugal), Mr Alexander ZVYAGINTSEV and Mr Vladimir ZIMIN (Russian Federation), Mr Antonio VERCHER NOGUERA (Spain), Mr Hasan Dursun (Turkey) as members and Mr Harald RANGE (Germany) and Ms Gabriela SCUTEA (Romania) as substitute members, to the select group responsible for preparing the draft Opinion on relations between prosecutors and the media (CCPE-GT) to be submitted to the 8th plenary meeting of the CCPE;
5. agreed that the Opinion to be prepared in 2013 should be preceded by a questionnaire on relevant aspects concerning the current situation but also on how the organisation should be concerning the relationship between prosecutors and the media in the member states; took note of the preliminary version of the questionnaire prepared by the Secretariat; thanked Mr Cédric VISART DE BOCARME (Belgium), Ms Alessandra GIRALDI (Denmark) and Ms Raija TOIVIAINEN (Finland) for taking the initiative to complete the questionnaire for the 21st January 2013; entrusted the Secretariat to send the questionnaire to all members of the CCPE in February 2013; invited all members of the CCPE to submit their replies to the questionnaire by 4 March 2013, as well as to address to the Secretariat any information at their disposal relevant to the Opinion;
6. elected Mr Antonio MURA (Italy) President and Ms Raija TOIVIAINEN (Finland) Vice-President of the CCPE for 2013; elected Ms Alessandra GIRALDI (Denmark) as member of the CCPE Bureau for two years (2013 and 2014);
7. took note of the adoption on 19 September 2012 by the Committee of Ministers of the Recommendation (CM/Rec(2012)11) to member states on the role of public prosecutors outside the criminal justice system; expressed their appreciation to Mr João Manuel DA SILVA MIGUEL (Portugal), President of the CCPE, who acted as scientific expert in the preparation of the draft Recommendation; and underlined the excellent cooperation with the European Committee on Legal Co-operation (CDCJ);
8. took note of the work carried out within the framework of the CoE Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport (EPAS) for preparing a draft International convention to combat the manipulation of sports results as presented by its Executive Secretary, as well as the invitation to the CCPE to take part in the meetings of the drafting Group, expressed the opinion that, taking into account the scale of increasing criminal activities related to match fixing (particularly in football) and the increase of organised crime and corruption practices in sport, the CCPE should pay particular attention to this work; appointed Mr Olivier de BAYNAST (France) as the CCPE representative to attend relevant meetings of the EPAS;
9. proposed to hold the 8th plenary meeting of the CCPE on 28-29 November 2013 and the meetings of the CCPE-GT on 21-22 March and 24-25 June 2013.
APPENDIX I
AGENDA
APPENDIX II
List of participants
MEMBER STATES / ETATS MEMBRES
ALBANIA / ALBANIE
Mr Olsian ÇELA, Prosecutor, Head of the Severe Crimes Prosecution Office, General Prosecution Office, TIRANA
ARMENIA / ARMENIE
Ms Nelly HARUTYUNYAN, Head of Department, Office of the Prosecutor General, YEREVAN
AUSTRIA / AUTRICHE
Mr Ernst Eugen FABRIZY, Erster Generalanwalt, Generalprokuratur, VIENNA
AZERBAIJAN / AZERBAΪDJAN
Mr Huseynli Aykhan Prosecutor of the International Relations Department, Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Azerbaijan, BAKU
BELGIUM / BELGIQUE
Mr Cedric VISART de BOCARME, Procureur Général de Liège, LIÈGE
BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA / BOSNIE-HERZEGOVINE
Ms Gordana BOSILJČIĆ, Prosecutor, Office of the Chief Prosecutor, BiH Prosecutor's Office, SARAJEVO
BULGARIA / BULGARIE
Mr Sava PETROV, Prosecutor, Court of Cassation, Office of the Prosecutor General, SOFIA
CROATIA / CROATIE
Mr Josip CULE, Deputy Attorney General, Head of International Legal Assistance and Cooperation Department, ZAGREB
Apologised/ Excusé
CYPRUS / CHYPRE
Ms Elena Drimiotou, Counsel of the Republic , Law Office of the Republic, NICOSIA
CZECH REPUBLIC / REPUBLIQUE TCHEQUE
Ms Jana ZEZULOVA, Public Prosecutor, Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office, Analytic and Legislative Department, BRNO
Apologised/ Excusée
DENMARK / DANEMARK
Ms Alessandra GIRALDI, Deputy Chief Prosecutor, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, COPENHAGEN
FINLAND / FINLANDE
Ms Raija TOIVIAINEN, State Prosecutor, Head of International Unit, Helsinki
FRANCE
Mr Olivier de BAYNAST, Procureur Général, Cour d'Appel de Douai, DOUAI
GEORGIA / GEORGIE
Mr Irakli Dondoladzé, Chef du Service des Relations Internationales, Parquet Principal de la Géorgie, Ministère de la Justice de la Géorgie, Tbilisi
GERMANY / ALLEMAGNE
Mr Harald RANGE, Generalbundesanwalt beim Bundesgerichtshof, KARLSRUHE
GREECE / GRECE
Ms Eirini Melista-Pantazi, Vice Public Prosecutor, Court of Appeal, ATHENS
HUNGARY / HONGRIE
Mr Peter POLT, Prosecutor General of Hungary, Office of the Prosecutor General, BUDAPEST
IRELAND / IRLANDE
Mr Peter McCORMICK, Prosecutor, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutors, DUBLIN
ITALY / ITALIE
Mr Antonio MURA, Vice-President/Vice-Président of the CCPE, Deputy Prosecutor General of the Italian Supreme Court, Prosecutor General’s Office, International Relations, ROME
Mr Guido CALVI, Lay member of the Council, Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura, ROMA
LATVIA / LETTONIE
Mr Aivars Ostapko, Head Prosecutor of the Methodology division, Department of Analysis and Management, General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Latvia, RIGA
LIECHTENSTEIN
Mr Frank HAUN, Deputy Prosecutor General, Office of the Public Prosecutor, Principality of Liechtenstein, VADUZ
LITHUANIA / LITUANIE
Mr Darius VALYS, Chief Prosecutor General, VILNIUS
LUXEMBOURG
Mr Robert BIEVER, Procureur Général d'Etat du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, LUXEMBOURG
MALTA / MALTE
Dr Peter Grech, Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, VALLETTA
Apologised/ Excusé
MONACO
Mr Jean-Pierre DRENO, Procureur Général, Parquet Général, MONACO
MONTENEGRO
Mr Veselin VUČKOVIĆ, Deputy Supreme State Prosecutor, Supreme State Prosecutor's Office, Podgorica
Ms Ana BOSKOVIC, Assistant for International Cooperation, Supreme State Prosecutor's Office, Podgorica
NETHERLANDS / PAYS‑BAS
Mr Marc van ERVE, National Member for the Netherlands at Eurojust, THE HAGUE
Apologised/ Excusé
NORWAY / NORVEGE
Mr Runar TORGERSEN, Senior Public Prosecutor, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, OSLO
POLAND / POLOGNE
Ms Elzbieta SIDWA, Prosecutor, Department of International Cooperation, General Prosecutor’s Office, WARSAW
PORTUGAL
Mr João Manuel DA SILVA MIGUEL, President/Président of the CCPE
EUROJUST, THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS
REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA / REPUBLIQUE DE MOLDOVA
Mr Eugen RUSU, Deputy Chief of General Prosecutor, Prosecutor, Deputy Chief of Department
of Internatioanl Legal Assistance and European Integration of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Moldova
ROMANIA / ROUMANIE
Ms Daniela Badica, Chief Prosecutor, Department of International Judicial Relations, Prosecutor’s Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice, BUCHAREST
RUSSIAN FEDERATION / FEDERATION DE RUSSIE
Mr Vladimir DOBRITSA, Vice-Chief of Executive Secretariat of the Office of the Prosecutor General, MOSCOW
Mr Vladimir P. ZIMIN, First Deputy Head, General Department of International Legal Cooperation, Office of the Prosecutor General, MOSCOW
Mr Alexander ZVYAGINTSEV, Deputy Prosecutor General, Office of the Prosecutor General, MOSCOW
Ms Ekaterina PRITZ, interpreter
SERBIA / SERBIE
Mr Djordje OSTOJIC, Deputy Prosecutor General, Office of the Prosecutor General, BELGRADE
SLOVAKIA / SLOVAQUIE
Ms Katarína LAIFEROVA, Head of the Office of the Prosecutor General, Generálna prokuratúra Slovenskej republiky, BRATISLAVA
SLOVENIA / SLOVENIE
Mr Mirko VRTAČNIK, Supreme State Prosecutor Councillor, Deputy State Prosecutor General, LJUBLJANA
SPAIN / ESPAGNE
Mr Antonio VERCHER NOGUERA, Deputy Attorney General for environmental matters, Fiscalia de medio ambiente y urbanismo, MADRID
SWEDEN / SUEDE
Mr Ola LÖFGREN, Head of International Unit, Office of the Prosecutor General, STOCKHOLM
Apologised/ Excusé
SWITZERLAND / SUISSE
Ms Maria-Antonella BINO, Procureur général suppléant, Chef d'antenne, Ministère public de la Confédération MPC, Antenne de Lausanne, LAUSANNE
"THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA" / "L'EX-REPUBLIQUE YOUGOSLAVE DE MACEDOINE "
Mr Jovan ILIEVSKI, Head of the Department for Prosecuting Organised Crime and Corruption, Public Prosecutor’s Office, SKOPJE
TURKEY / TURQUIE
Mr Mehmet Ali Canavci, Public Prosecutor in Van Province, VAN
Ms Zehra Cansu ORHAN, Rapporteur Judge, Directorate General for International Law and Foreign Relations, Ministry of Justice, ANKARA
Mr Hasan Dursun, Judge, High Council of Judges and Prosecuters, ANKARA
UKRAINE / UKRAINE
Mr Renat Kuzmin, First Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Prosecutor General’s Office, KYIV
Mr Olena Sygydyn, Head of International Relations Division, Prosecutor General’s Office, KYIV
Mr Artem Volodin, Prosecutor of Main Department of International Legal Cooperation, Department of International Legal Cooperation Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, KYIV
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COUNCIL OF EUROPE / CONSEIL DE L’EUROPE
European Committee on Legal Cooperation (CDCJ) / Comite Europeen de Cooperation Juridique (CDCJ)
Mr Simon TONELLI, Head of Division / Chef de la division, Division for Legal Co-operation / Division de la coopération juridique
Human Rights and Antidiscrimination Directorate / Direction des droits de l'homme de l'anti-discrimination
Mr Stanislas FROSSARD, Executive Secretary / Secrétaire exécutif
OBSERVERS / OBSERVATEURS
Magistrats européens pour la démocratie et les libertés (MEDEL)
Mr José Pedro Baranita, Procureur, Tribunal Administratif, PORTO, membre du Conseil de Administration de MEDEL, en représentation du Syndicat des Magistrats du Ministére Public - PORTUGAL
International Association of Prosecutors (IAP)
Ms Elizabeth Howe, General Counsel, International Association of Prosecutors, THE UNITED KINGDOM
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COUNCIL OF EUROPE’S SECRETARIAT /
SECRETARIAT DU CONSEIL DE L’EUROPE
Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law /
Direction Générale des droits de l’Homme et de l’état de droit
Division for the independence and efficiency of justice /
Division pour l’indépendance et l’efficacité de la Justice
(CCPE e-mail: [email protected])
Ms Muriel DECOT, Secretary of the CCPE / Secrétaire du CCPE
Tel : + 33 (0)3 90 21 44 55, E-mail: [email protected]
Mr Artashes MELIKYAN, Co-Secretary of the CCPE /Co-Secrétaire du CCPE
Tel: + 33 (0)3 90 21 47 60, E-mail: [email protected]
Ms Maria ORESHKINA, Co-Secretary of the CCPE /Co-Secrétaire du CCPE
Tel: + 33 (0)3 90 21 40 26, E-mail: [email protected]
Mr Jean-Pierre GEILLER, Documentalist/ Documentaliste
Tel : + 33(0) 88 41 22 27, Email : [email protected]
Ms Annette SATTEL, Communication
Tel : + 33 (0)3 88 41 39 04 , E-mail : [email protected]
Ms Emily WALKER, Assistant / Assistante
Tel. +33 (0)3 90 21 48 39, Fax: +33 (0)3 90 21 56 48, E-mail: [email protected]
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INTERPRETERS / INTERPRETES
Ms Julia TANNER
Mr Luke TILDEN
Mr Jean-Jacques PEDUSSSAUD