CCPE(2011)4
Strasbourg, 25 November 2011
CONSULTATIVE COUNCIL OF EUROPEAN PROSECUTORS (CCPE)
6th plenary meeting
Strasbourg, 24-25 November 2011
MEETING REPORT
A. FOREWORD
1. The Consultative Council of European Prosecutors (CCPE) met in Strasbourg on 24 and 25 November 2011, under the Presidency of Mr João Manuel DA SILVA MIGUEL (Portugal). The meeting was opened by Ms Marja RUOTANEN, Director, Justice and Human Dignity Directorate. The agenda and the list of participants are appended to the present report.
B. ITEMS SUBMITTED TO THE COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS FOR DECISION
2. The CCPE invited the Committee of Ministers to:
a. Take note of its Opinion No. 6 (2011) on the relationship between prosecutors and the prison administration,
and to transmit this document to the competent authorities in the member states and, where appropriate, having it translated into the corresponding languages, to transmit it also to the CEPEJ, the CDCJ, the CDPC and the CDDH to enable these bodies to take it into account in their work;
b. take note of the present report as a whole.
C. ITEMS SUBMITTED TO THE COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS FOR INFORMATION
The CCPE:
3. decided to dedicate its Opinion in 2012 to the management of the means of the prosecution services and the Opinion in 2013 to the relations between prosecutors and media, in accordance with the terms of Reference of the CCPE adopted by the Committee of Ministers;
4. appointed Ms Nelly HARUTYUNYAN (Armenia), Ms Alessandra GIRALDI (Denmark), Mr Olivier de BAYNAST (France), Mr Peter POLT (Hungary), Mr Harald RANGE (Germany), Ms Gabriela SCUTEA (Romania), Mr Antonio VERCHER NOGUERA (Spain), Mr Alexander ZVYAGINTSEV and Mr Vladimir ZIMIN (Russian Federation) and Ms Karen TOWNSEND (United Kingdom) as members of the CCPE-GT for 2012, and Mr Jean-Pierre DRENO (Monaco) and Ms Maria-Antonella BINO (Switzerland) as deputy members;
5. instructed the CCPE-GT to prepare a draft Opinion on “the management of the means of the prosecution services” to be submitted to the 7th plenary meeting of the CCPE;
6. agreed that the Opinion to be prepared in 2012 should be preceded by a questionnaire on the state of play regarding the management of the means of the prosecution services in the member states; replies to this questionnaire would serve as a basis for the preparation of the Opinion;
thanked Ms Gabriela SCUTEA (Romania) for taking the initiative to contribute to the elaboration of the questionnaire; entrusted the Secretariat to finalise the questionnaire and to send the questionnaire to all members of the CCPE by 15 December 2011; invited all members of the CCPE to submit their replies to the questionnaire in the course of January 2012 as well as to address to the Secretariat any information at their disposal relevant to the Opinion;
7. re-elected Mr João Manuel DA SILVA MIGUEL (Portugal) President and Mr Antonio MURA (Italy) Vice-President of the CCPE for 2012; elected Mr Cedric VISART de BOCARME (Belgium) as member of the Bureau for 2012 and 2013;
8. exchanged views regarding the opportunity to update Recommendation Rec(2000)19 on the role of public prosecution in the criminal justice system; invited the members of the CCPE to transmit their views on the possible updating of the different parts of the Recommendation Rec(2000)19 to the Secretariat; entrusted the Bureau and the Secretariat to prepare a synthesis of the views of the CCPE members for its next plenary meeting;
9. took note of the state of work within the working group of the CDCJ entrusted with the preparation of a draft Recommendation on the role of prosecutors outside the criminal law field and in which Mr João Manuel DA SILVA MIGUEL (Portugal), President of the CCPE, had been nominated scientific expert, and expressed the wish to have the possibilty to comment on the future draft Recommendation;
10. proposed to hold its 7th plenary meeting on 26 and 27 November 2012 and the meetings of the working party (CCPE-GT) on 20 and 21 February and on 4 and 5 June 2012.
APPENDIX I
AGENDA
1. Opening of the meeting
2. Adoption of the agenda
3. Information by the President, Bureau members and the Secretariat
4. Discussion of the CCPE draft Opinion No. 6 on the relationship between prosecutors and the prison administration with a view to its adoption
5. Examination of the Terms of Reference of the CCPE for 2012 and 2013
6. Preparation of the CCPE Opinion for 2012 concerning the management of the means of the prosecution services and Opinion for 2013 concerning the relations between prosecutors and media
7. Exchange of views concerning the need to update Recommendation (2000)19 on the role of public prosecution in the criminal justice system
8. Election of the President and Vice-President
9. Election of one member of the Bureau
10. Election of the members of the CCPE-GT for 2012
11. Relations between the CCPE and other bodies outside and inside the Council of Europe
12. Any other business
13. Next meetings of the CCPE
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
Mr Vardan AVETISYAN, Head of Department, Execution of sentences and other sanctions, Office of the Prosecutor General, YEREVAN
AUSTRIA / AUTRICHE
Mr Ernst Eugen FABRIZY, Erster Generalanwalt, Generalprokuratur, VIENNA
BELGIUM / BELGIQUE
M. 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
CYPRUS / CHYPRE
Ms Despina KYPRIANOU, Counsel of the Republic A', Law Office of the Republic, NICOSIA (Apologised/ Excusé)
CZECH REPUBLIC / REPUBLIQUE TCHEQUE
Ms Jana ZEZULOVA, Public Prosecutor, Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office, Analytic and Legislative Department, BRNO
DENMARK / DANEMARK
Ms Alessandra GIRALDI, Deputy Chief Prosecutor, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, COPENHAGEN
FINLAND / FINLANDE
Mr Jarmo HIRVONEN, State Prosecutor, Prosecution Unit, Office of the Prosecutor General, HELSINKI
FRANCE
M. Olivier de BAYNAST, Procureur Général, Cour d'Appel de Douai, DOUAI
GEORGIA / GEORGIE
Mrs Nana RAPAVA, Prosecutor of the Unit of International Affairs, Office of the Chief Prosecutor, TBILISI
GERMANY / ALLEMAGNE
Mr Harald RANGE, Generalbundesanwalt beim Bundesgerichtshof, KARLSRUHE
GREECE / GRECE
Mr Roussos Emmanouil PAPADAKIS, Vice-Public Prosecutor, Public Prosecutor’s Office, Supreme Court, ATHENS
HUNGARY / HONGRIE
Mr Peter POLT, Chief Prosecutor, Head of Criminal Trial Cases, 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-Chairman/Vice-Président CCPE, Deputy Prosecutor General of the Italian Supreme Court, Prosecutor General’s Office, International Relations, ROME
Mr Vittorio BORRACCETTI, Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura, ROME
LATVIA / LETTONIE
Ms Rudite ABOLINA, Head Prosecutor of the Department of Analysis and Management, Deputy Prosecutor General, Prosecutor’s General Office, RIGA
Ms Una BRENČA, Head Prosecutor of International Cooperation Division, Prosecutor’s General Office, RIGA (Apologised / Excusé)
LIECHTENSTEIN
Mr Frank HAUN, Prosecutor General, Office of the Public Prosecutor, Principality of Liechtenstein, HAUN (Apologised / Excusé)
LITHUANIA / LITUANIE
Mr Darius KARČINSKAS, Prosecutor, Department for Criminal Prosecution, Prosecutor General’s Office, VILNIUS
LUXEMBOURG
M. Robert BIEVER, Procureur Général d'Etat du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, LUXEMBOURG
MALTA / MALTE
Dr. Peter Grech, Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, VALETTA
MONACO
M. Jean-Pierre DRENO, Procureur Général, Parquet Général, MONACO
MONTENEGRO
Mr Veselin VUČKOVIĆ, Deputy Supreme State Prosecutor; Supreme State Prosecutor's Office, PODGORICA
Ms Milica ANDJELIĆ, Assistant for international Cooperation, Supreme State Prosecutor's Office, PODGORICA
NETHERLANDS / PAYS-BAS
Mr Arend B. VAST, ZWOLLE
Mr Marc van ERVE, National Member for the Netherlands at Eurojust, THE HAGUE
NORWAY / NORVEGE
Mr Runar TORGERSEN, Senior Public Prosecutor, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, OSLO
Mr Knut Frederik HUSTAD, 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, Chairman/ Président CCPE
Eurojust, THE HAGUE
ROMANIA / ROUMANIE
Mrs Gabriela SCUTEA, Prosecutor's Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice, BUCHAREST
Mrs Iuliana NEDELCU, Prosecutor's Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice, BUCHAREST
RUSSIAN FEDERATION / FEDERATION DE RUSSIE
Mr Alexander ZVYAGINTSEV, Deputy Prosecutor General, 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 Sergey Mikhailovich TARAKANOV, Acting Head of the Department for Supervision over Legality of Execution of Criminal Punishment, Office of the Prosecutor General, MOSCOW
Mr Alexander HAINTSMAN, 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 (Apologised / Excusé)
SLOVENIA / SLOVENIE
Mr Mirko VRTAČNIK, Supreme State Prosecutor Councillor, Deputy State Prosecutor General, LJUBLJANA (Apologised / Excusé)
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
SWITZERLAND / SUISSE
Mme 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 Engin DURNAGÖL, Deputy Secretary General, High Council of Judges and Prosecutors, ANKARA
Mr İbrahim ETHEM KURIŞ, Chef of Public Prosecutors, ANKARA
UKRAINE / UKRAINE
Mr Anatoliy PRYSHKO, Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Prosecutor General's Office, KYIV
Mr Oleksandr TOMIEYEV, Deputy Head, Division for International Cooperation, International Law Department Prosecutor General's Office, KYIV
UNITED KINGDOM / ROYAUME-UNI
Karen TOWNSEND, Head of European Policy, Strategy and Policy Directorate, Crown Prosecution Service, LONDON
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OBSERVERS / OBSERVATEURS
CONSULTATIVE COUNCIL OF EUROPEAN JUDGES (CCJE) / CONSEIL CONSULTATIF DE JUGES EUROPEENS (CCJE)
Mr Bart VAN LIEROP, Conseiller Gerechtshof Den Haag, THE HAGUE
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COUNCIL OF EUROPE’S SECRETARIAT / SECRETARIAT DU CONSEIL DE L’EUROPE
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Mme Muriel DECOT, Secretary to the CCPE / Secrétaire du CCPE
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M. Jean-Pierre GEILLER, Documentalist / Documentaliste
Mme Annette SATTEL, Webmaster
Ms Emily WALKER, Assistant / Assistante
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