Strasbourg, 4 December 2018

CEPEJ(2018)28

europEAN COMMISSION FOR THE EFFICIENCY OF Justice (CEPEJ)

31st plenary meeting

Strasbourg, 3-4 December 2018

Abridged report

A.   FOREWORD

The Council of Europe’s European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) held its 31st plenary meeting in Strasbourg on 3-4 December 2018. The meeting was chaired by Mr Georg STAWA (Austria), President of the CEPEJ.

The agenda and the list of participants appear in Appendix.

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

The CEPEJ

1.   Information by the President, member States and the Secretariat

§  took note of the information provided by its President, its members and its Secretariat who had participated in various fora where the work of the CEPEJ had been presented and discussed and noted with satisfaction that this concerned 60 events (including cooperation activities) in 22 member States and 5 non-European States in 2018, contributing to the promotion of public policies aimed at ensuring the efficiency and quality of judicial systems;

§  took note of the information provided by Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Finland, Greece, Latvia, Russian Federation Slovenia, Spain, “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and Israel, on recent developments in the judicial field ; invited its members to forward to the Secretariat written information and useful references which could be included in the area "country profiles" of the CEPEJ web site;

      2.   Evaluation process of judicial systems

§  noted with great satisfaction the excellent reception by the Committee of Ministers of the report “European judicial systems – Edition 2018”, as well as the positive responses received as regards this process in many member States, from policy makers, justice practitioners (see specifics on the tour de table) and the media (see the press review);

 

§  invited its members to disseminate the reports widely to the competent authorities and judicial professionals of their countries, in particular by facilitating their translation (at least the translation of the overview), where appropriate, and to forward as soon as possible to the Secretariat information on the way the reports are used by the State authorities and any press articles at national level concerning this work;

§  decided to launch the next evaluation process in 2019 on the basis of data of the year 2018, with a view to publishing the results in 2020; instructed the CEPEJ-GT-EVAL to propose that the structure of the report be further developed, relying more on the possibilities offered by the interactive database CEPEJ-STAT, focusing more on the main trends, and including synthetic country-fiches;

§  adopted for this purpose the revised Evaluation Scheme (CEPEJ(2018)16), subject to any additional amendments that may be proposed by the CEPEJ-GT-EVAL and approved by written procedure, and instructed the CEPEJ-GT-EVAL to adapt the explanatory note accordingly;

§  agreed that the electronic Scheme should be opened for reply by national correspondents as from March 2019 until 1 October 2019 and urged the national correspondents to comply with such a timeframe, in order for the data to be processed from October 2019;

§  reiterated its agreement so that Kazakhstan could participate in this evaluation exercise as an Observer and took note of its invitation to the CEPEJ-GT-EVAL for a working visit to Astana to explain the process;

§   took note of the information provided by its experts on the peer evaluation visit to “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”, agreed to pursue the cycle of evaluation in Andorra on 10-11 December 2018 and invited the  member States to propose to the Secretariat candidatures for further visits;

§   welcomed the continuation of the cooperation with the European Commission in providing it annually with a Study on the functioning of judicial systems in the EU member states, based on the CEPEJ’s own  methodology; instructed the CEPEJ-GT-EVAL to 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; 

agreed to strengthen such cooperation with the European Commission in the framework of a specific programme for an annual evaluation of the functioning of the judicial systems in the States and entities of the Western Balkans, based on indicators partially reflecting the indicators already used by the CEPEJ and new indicators, and instructed the CEPEJ-GT-EVAL to finalise this with the agreement of the States concerned;

§   thanked warmly the outgoing President of the CEPEJ-GT-EVAL, Jean-Paul JEAN (France), for his long-standing commitment to the Group and welcomed the appointment of Jaša VRABEC (Slovenia) as Chairman of the Group;

       3.  Quality of justice

§   adopted the “European Ethical Charter on the use of artificial intelligence in judicial systems and their environment” (CEPEJ(2018)14) which provides, for the first time in Europe, a framework of principles that can guide policy makers, legislators and justice professionals in addressing the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence in national judicial processes,

decided to forward the Charter to the Committee of Ministers so that it may take note of it and encourage member States to disseminate it to interested circles and to apply it, and to forward it to the relevant Committees and bodies of the Council of Europe in order that they may make use of them when appropriate; instructed the Secretariat to ensure a wide dissemination of these documents and organise the appropriate communication strategy;

§   adopted the “Guide on courts’ and public prosecution services’ communication with the public and the media” (CEPEJ(2018)15);

decided to forward this document to the Committee of Ministers in order that it may take note of it, as well as to the relevant Committees and bodies of the Council of Europe in order that they may make use of it when appropriate and instructed the Secretariat to ensure a wide dissemination of this document and organise the appropriate communication strategy;

§   took note of the on-going work of the CEPEJ-GT-QUAL on supporting the implementation of the Cyberjustice Guidelines and strengthening judges’ knowledge and skills through better knowledge-sharing among the judges in order to reduce judges’ isolation;

§  reiterated its invitation to the volunteer courts in the member States to indicate to the Secretariat their candidatures for organising a coaching programme aimed at organising user satisfaction surveys based on the CEPEJ Handbook and invited its members to signal this opportunity widely to the courts in their countries;

       4.  Judicial time management

§  adopted the Revised Guidelines for Judicial Time management (3rd revision) (CEPEJ(2018)20);

§  adopted the Update of the length of court proceedings in the Member States of the Council of Europe – 3rd edition based on the case-law of the ECtHR (CEPEJ(2018)26);

§  took note of the work carried out by the Steering group of the SATURN Centre, in particular

o    thepreparation of a methodology available to the judicial systems wishing to set up a process of weighting cases and thanked in this context the Supreme Court of Israel for its invitation for a study visit in February 2019,

o    the preparation of draft guidelines on the data, tables and graphs that could be contained in a model dashboard,

o    the timeframes for criminal cases under Articles 5 and 6 ECHR,

o    the role of the parties and practitioners in preventing delays in proceedings;

§  decided, following the Opinion sent in December 2014 to the European Committee on Legal Co-operation (CDCJ) which proposed consideration of the possibility of updating Recommendation Rec (86) 12 “concerning measures to prevent and reduce the excessive workload in the courts”, to forward to the CDCJ the synthesis prepared by the EUR on the non-judicial tasks performed by judges in certain member States and by other judicial professions in other member States, and expressed the wish that the CDCJ would  undertake as soon as possible the revision of the Recommendation with a view to improving the efficiency and quality of justice;

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

5.  Mediation

§  adopted the Baseline Grid for Mediation Performance Indicators (Baseline Mediation Statistics) (CEPEJ(2018)23), the Code of conduct for mediation centres (CEPEJ(2018)24) and the Standard mediation forms (CEPEJ(2018)25) as elements to complete the existing Mediation Development Toolkit (CEPEJ(2018)7);

decided to forward these documents to the Committee of Ministers in order that it may take note of them, as well as to the relevant Committees and bodies of the Council of Europe in order that they may make use of them when appropriate;

§  agreed to work on a feasibility study to assess the interest of proposing to the relevant bodies of the Council of Europe to draft a Convention on Mediation and instructed the CEPEJ-GT-MED to organise the preparation of this study;

6.  Harmonisation of the definitions used by CEPEJ

§  took note of the on-going work of the ad hoc working group, in particular to draft a Glossary of the terminology used by CEPEJ;

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

§   welcomed the on-going cooperation programmes:

§   agreed to cooperate within the framework of its Activity Programme to support judicial reforms through new programmes:

 

§   agreed to cooperate with the Supreme Judicial Council of Armenia on drafting and developing justice management rules;

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

      8.         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), the Consultative Council of European Prosecutors (CCPE) and the European Committee of Legal Cooperation (CDCJ);

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

§  took note of the information given by the representatives of Austria and Romania, on behalf of the outgoing and incoming presidencies of the European Union, on the recent developments within the Union in the field of justice;

 

10.  European Day of Justice

§  thanked the judicial authorities in the 17 member States which organised 41 specific events within the framework of the European Day of Justice on 25 October 2018; invited its members to promote initiatives for the 2019;

11.  Crystal Scales of Justice

§  invited its members to promote candidacies for the next edition of the “Crystal Scales of Justice” in 2019, whose award ceremony could take place in Oslo at the invitation of the Norwegian authorities;

  1. Observers to the CEPEJ

§  took note of the information given by its Observers, and in particular the OECD, the EU Fundamental Rights Agency, the European Association of Judges (EAM), the European Union of Rechtspfleger and court clerks (EUR), the International Union of Bailiffs and Judicial Officers (UIHJ), the Council of the Bars and Law Societies of the European Union (CCBE),the International Institute of Expertise and Expert (IIEE), the Association of European Administrative Judges (AEAJ), 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;

§  noted with interest the proposal of the UIHJ to hold in 2019, in cooperation with the CEPEJ, a one day forum devoted to the CEPEJ Guidelines on the execution of court decisions, in particular in the field of digitization and artificial intelligence;

  1. Election of the Bureau

§  elected Ramin GURBANOV (Azerbaijan) as President and Ivana BORZOVÁ (Czech Republic) as Vice-President of the CEPEJ for a two year period; elected Laetitia BRUNIN (France) et Francesco DEPASQUALE (Malta) as Bureau members for a two year period;

§  expressed its warm thanks to Georg STAWA for his four years as President of the CEPEJ and for his leading action towards further developing the Commission and endowing it with a preeminent role in the debate regarding the functioning of judicial systems in Europe and beyond;

      14.  Calendar

§  took note that the 32nd and 33rd plenary meetings of the CEPEJ could take place on 13-14 June 2019 and 4-6 December 2019.


APPENDIX I

Agenda

1.     Adoption of the agenda          

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

3.     Recent developments in the justice field in the Council of Europe member States

                 

4.     Evaluation of judicial systems - information on the on-going work of the CEPEJ-GT-EVAL

Rapporteur: Jaša VRABEC, Chairman of the CEPEJ-GT-EVAL (Slovenia)

                 i.       2016 – 2018 Evaluation cycle

a.   Impact of the report and the CEPEJ-STAT data base in the States

b.   Use of the CEPEJ-STAT interactive data base

c.   Specific reports on justice professions

               ii.       2018-2020 Evaluation cycle

a.   Amendment to the evaluation scheme and the explanatory note

b.   Which evolution for analysing the data and optimizing the use of CEPEJ-STAT?

c.   Calendar

              iii.       Co-operation with the European Union

a.   “EU Justice Scoreboard”

b.   Possible cooperation project within the framework of the Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans

              iv.       Co-operation process through a peer evaluation

a.    Andorra, “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”

b.    Candidatures for 2019

5.     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

              i.        European Ethical Charter on the use of artificial intelligence in judicial systems and their environment

            ii.        Guide on courts’ and public prosecution services’ communication with the public and the media

           iii.        Supporting the implementation of the Cyberjustice Guidelines

           iv.        Strengthening judges’ knowledge and skills through better knowledge-sharing among the judges  - breaking judge’s isolation

6.     Judicial time management - information on the on-going work of the Steering group of the SATURN Centre

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

              i.        Case weighting in European judicial systems

            ii.        Revision of the Guidelines for Judicial Time Management

           iii.        Judicial timeframes in the member States based on the ECHR case-law

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

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

8.     Definitions of the terminology used in the CEPEJ tools - information on the on-going work of the ad hoc Working Group

Rapporteur: Laetitia BRUNIN (France)

9.     CEPEJ’s co-operation programmes

                 i.     On-going programmes

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

b.      Strengthening the efficiency and quality of the Slovak judicial system – Voluntary Contribution financed through the European Social Fund

c.      Ensuring Sustainable Democratic Governance and Human Rights in the Southern Mediterranean  (South Programme III) – Joint Programme with the European Union

               ii.     Forthcoming/draft programmes

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

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

c.     Improved functioning, performance and access to justice in Tunisia – project of Joint Programme funded by the European Union as part of the Programme d’Appui à la Réforme de la Justice ( PARJ III)

d.    Programme to support the justice sector reform - improving the functioning of justice in Morocco by using the tools of CEPEJ

e.     Project for strengthening the efficiency and quality of the judicial system in Azerbaijan and Project for supporting judicial reform in Georgia – to be funded by the Partnership for Good Governance, Phase II 

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

              i.        Consultative Council of European Judges (CCJE)

            ii.        Consultative Council of European Prosecutors (CCPE)

           iii.        European Committee for Legal Cooperation (CDCJ)

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

Rapporteurs: Georg STAWA (Austria) and Violeta BELEGANTE (Romania) on behalf of the outgoing and incoming presidency of the European Union 

12.  European Day of Justice

Rapporteur: Secretariat

13.  Crystal Scales of Justice Prize

Rapporteur: Secretariat

14.  Observers to the CEPEJ

15.  Election of the CEPEJ Bureau

16.  Any other business


Appendix II

List of participants

CEPEJ MEMBERS / MEMBRES DE LA CEPEJ

ALBANIA/ALBANIE

Soeda DOCAJ, Judicial  Inspector, Ministry of Justice, TIRANA, Apologised / Excusée

ANDORRA/ANDORRE

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

ARMENIA/ARMENIE

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

AUSTRIA/AUTRICHE

Georg STAWA, Head of Department for Strategy, Organisational Consulting and Information Management, Federal Ministry for Constitution, Reforms, Deregulation and 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, (Vice-president of the CEPEJ / Vice-président de la CEPEJ)

BELGIUM/BELGIQUE 

Dietger GEERAERT, Conseiller au Service soutien stratégique et gestion de projet, Service Public Fédéral, Justice, BRUXELLES, Apologised / Excusé

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

Igor JUKIĆ, Expert advisor, Sector for European Affairs and International Cooperation, Ministry of justice, 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, Apologised / Excusée

ESTONIA/ESTONIE

Lagle ZOBEL, Courts division, Judicial Administration Policy Department, Ministry of Justice, TALLINN

FINLAND/FINLANDE  

Kari KIESILAINEN, Director General, Ministry of Justice, HELSINKI

FRANCE

Laetitia BRUNIN, Adjointe à la Sous-Directrice de la statistique et des études, Secrétariat général, Ministère de la justice, PARIS

GEORGIA/GÉORGIE

Ana SHALAMBERIDZE, Head of Communications and Coordination, Supreme Court, TBILISSI

GERMANY / ALLEMAGNE

Renata VON PÜCKLER, Ministère fédéral de la justice, BERLIN

Pia HETMEIER, Juge, Ministère de la Justice du Land Baden-Württemberg, STUTTGART

GREECE/GRÈCE

Michael PIKRAMENOS, Councilor of State, As. Professor of Law School at University of Thessaloniki, ATHENS

HUNGARY/HONGRIE

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

ICELAND/ISLANDE

Benedikt BOGASON, Chairman of the Board, The Judicial Administration, REYKJAVÍK

IRELAND/IRLANDE

Noel RUBOTHAM, Head of Reform and Development, Courts Service, DUBLIN 

Nicola KELLY, Courts Policy Division, Department of Justice and Equality, DUBLIN

ITALY/ITALIE

Giuliana PALUMBO, Directeur Général, Direction des statistiques et analyses organisationnelles, Ministère de la Justice, ROME

LATVIA/LETTONIE

Aija BRANTA, Judge of the Supreme Court, RIGA

LITHUANIA/LITUANIE

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

LUXEMBOURG

Jeannot NIES, Procureur Général d’Etat adjoint, Parquet général du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, LUXEMBOURG

MALTA/MALTE

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

REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA / REPUBLIQUE DE MOLDOVA

Victoria PALANCIUC, Agency for the administration of the courts, Ministry of Justice, CHISINAU

MONACO

Sébastien BIANCHERI, Vice-Président du Tribunal de Première Instance, Palais de Justice, MONACO

MONTENEGRO

Momir JAUKOVIĆ, Head of Department for organisation of Justice, Directorate for Judiciary, Ministry of Justice, PODGORICA

NETHERLANDS/PAYS‑BAS

Eliane EIJNWACHTER, Ministry of Justice, THE HAGUE, Apologised / Excusée

NORWAY/NORVÈGE

Audun BERG, Senior Advisor, The National Courts Administration, OSLO, Apologised / Excusé

POLAND/POLOGNE

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

PORTUGAL 

João ARSENIO DE OLIVEIRA, Head of Department, International Affairs Department, Directorate General for Justice Policy, 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 Interaction with the Judicial System of the Ministry of Justice, MOSCOW

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

Stanislav CHERNIY, Acting Head of the International Legal Division of the Judicial Department, the Supreme Court, MOSCOW

Sofya EPPEL, Specialist, Department of Legal Aid and Cooperation with the Judiciary, Ministry of Justice, MOSCOW

SERBIA/SERBIE

Jelena DERETIC, Assistant Minister at the Sector for the Judiciary, Ministry of Justice, BELGRADE

SLOVAK REPUBLIC/RÉPUBLIQUE SLOVAQUE

Ladislav DUDITS, Judge, Kosice Regional Court, KOSICE

SLOVENIA /SLOVENIE

Gregor STROJIN, State Secretary, Ministry of Justice, LJUBLJANA

SPAIN/ESPAGNE

Juan Fernando ARMENGOT IBORRA,Advisor, Directorate General for international Legal Co-operation and Relations with Religious Affairs, Ministry of Justice, MADRID

SWEDEN/SUÈDE

Hedvig TÄNGDÉN, Desk officer, Division for Procedural Law and Court Issues, Ministry of Justice, STOCKHOLM, Apologised /Excusée

SWITZERLAND/SUISSE

Marc-Antoine BOREL, Tribunal fédéral suisse, 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

Ugur MUSLU, Rapporteur Judge, Directorate General for Strategy Development, Ministry of Justice, ANKARA

Mustafa Burak YETIŞKIN, Rapporteur Judge, Directorate General for Strategy Development, Ministry of Justice, ANKARA

UKRAINE

Sergii KOZIAKOV, Chairman of the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine, KIEV


 

UNITED KINGDOM/ROYAUME‑UNI

Jenn GALANDY, EU Exit Lead, HMCTS Business Strategy, Courts and Tribunals Development Directorate,  LONDON

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Working GROUPS OF THE cePEJ
GROUPES DE TRAVAIL DE LA CEPEJ

João ARSENIO DE OLIVEIRA, Head of Department, International Affairs Department, Directorate General for Justice Policy, Ministry of Justice, LISBON, PORTUGAL (Chair of the CEPEJ-GT-QUAL / Président du CEPEJ-GT-QUAL)

Jaša VRABEC, Head of the Office for Court Management Development, Supreme Court, LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA (Chair of the CEPEJ-GT-EVAL/ Président du CEPEJ-GT-EVAL)

Giacomo OBERTO, Magistrat, Tribunal de Grande Instance, TURIN, ITALIE (Chair of the CEPEJ-SATURN / Président du CEPEJ-SATURN)

Rimantas SIMAITIS, Partner, Cobalt law firm, VILNIUS, LITHUANIA (Chair of the CEPEJ-GT-MED / Président du CEPEJ-GT-MED)

Leonardo D'URSO, Co-founder and Chief Executive Office, ADR Centre, ROME, ITALY, Expert of the CEPEJ-GT-MED

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OBSERVER STATES TO THE CEPEJ / ÉTATS OBSERVATEURS AUPRES DE LA CEPEJ

ISRAEL / ISRAËL

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

Shanee BENKIN, Researcher, Israeli Courts Research Division, Supreme Court, JERUSALEM

KAZAKHSTAN

Dauren YENSEBAYEV, Head of Project Management Office, Supreme Court, ASTANA

Nazgul YERGALIYEVA, Adviser of Chairman, Supreme Court, ASTANA

MOROCCO / MAROC

Abderrafi EROUIHANE, Directeur des Etudes, de la Coopération et de la Modernisation, Ministère de la Justice, RABAT

Mohammed OUKHLIFA, Représentant de la Présidence du Ministère Public, RABAT

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OBSERVERS / OBSERVATEURS

WORLD BANK / BANQUE MONDIALE

Srdjan SVIRCEV, Public Sector Specialist, World Bank Office in Serbia, BELGRADE, SERBIA

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

Philip BUISSERET, CCBE Secretary General, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM

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

Jean-Jacques KUSTER, Président honoraire de l’EUR, STRASBOURG, FRANCE

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

Mathieu CHARDON, Huissier de justice, Secrétaire général de l’UIHJ, PARIS, FRANCE

Suzan COLLINS, Vice-présidente déléguée de l’UIHJ, SALT LAKE CITY, ETATS-UNIS

Patrick GIELEN, Huissier de justice, UCCLE, BELGIQUE

 

ASSOCIATION OF EUROPEAN ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGES (AEAJ) / 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 ASSOCIATION OF JUDGES (AEM-EAJ) / Association européenne des MAGISTRATS (AEM-EAJ)

Giacomo OBERTO, Magistrat, Tribunal de Grande Instance, TURIN, ITALIE

EUROPEEAN JUDICIAL TRAINING NETWORK (EJTN) / RESEAU EUROPEEN DE FORMATION JUDICIAIRE (REFJ)

Quentin BALTHAZART, Head of Office, BRUXELLES, BELGIQUE

EUROPEAN NETWORKS OF COUNCILS FOR THE JUDICIARY (ENCJ) / RESEAU EUROPEEN DE CONSEILS DE LA JUSTICE (RECJ) Apologised/ Excusé

COUNCIL OF THE NOTARIAT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (CNUE) /CONSEIL DES NOTARIATS DE L’UNION EUROPEENNE (CNUE) Apologised/ Excusé

MAGISTRATS EUROPÉENS POUR LA DÉMOCRATIE ET LES LIBERTÉS (MEDEL)

Iria GONZALEZ LOPEZ, Membre du bureau de MEDEL

EUROPEAN EXPERTISE AND EUROPEAN INSTITUTE (EEEI) / INSTITUT EUROPEEN DE L’EXPERTISE ET DE L’EXPERT (EEEI)

Raymond LEMAIRE, Président, Institut européen de l’Expertise et de l’Expert, LEVALLOIS, FRANCE

Alain NUEE, Président du comité d'Orientation, LEVALLOIS, France

ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT (OECD) / ORGANISATION POUR LA COOPERATION ET LE DEVELOPPEMENT ECONOMIQUE (OCDE)

Chloe LELIEVRE, Policy Analyst/Programme Coordinator, Justice Services - Public Governance, PARIS, FRANCE

STRASBOURG FACULTY OF LAW, POLITICAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT /  FACULTE DE DROIT, DE SCIENCES POLITIQUES ET DE GESTION DE STRASBOURG Apologised/ Excusé

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EUROPEAN UNION / UNION EUROPÉENNE

european CommisSion / Commission européenne

Per IBOLD, Delegation of the European Commission in Strasbourg, FRANCE

EUROPEAN UNION AGENCY FOR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS / AGENCE DE L’UNION EUROPEENNE POUR LES DROITS FONDAMENTAUX 

Matylda POGORZELSKA, Freedoms and Justice Department, VIENNA, AUSTRIA

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INVITED DELEGATIONS / DELEGATIONS INVTEES

KOSOVO*

Mirlinda GASHI, Spokeperson, Court of Pristina, PRISTINA

Enver BEHA, Head of IT Department, Court of Pristina, PRISTINA

SLOVAK REPUBLIC/RÉPUBLIQUE SLOVAQUE

Sylvia BENOVA, General Secretary, Ministry of Justice, BRATISLAVA

Matej UHLIK, Chancery of the Secretary of State I, Ministry of Justice, BRATISLAVA

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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)

Viktoriya CHERNIYCHUK, 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)

Stéphane LEYENBERGER, Secrétaire du CCJE

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

Muriel DECOT, Secrétaire du CCPE

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

STEERING COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS  / COMITÉ DIRECTEUR POUR LES DROITS DE L'HOMME(CDDH)

Vit Á. SCHORM,Government Agent before the ECtHR Ministry of Justice, PRAGUE, Apologised / Excusé

EUROPEAN COMMITTEE ON CRIME PROBLEMS/ COMITÉ EUROPÉEN POUR LES PROBLÈMES CRIMINELS (CDPC)

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

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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

Christophe POIREL, Director, Human Rights and Rule of Law Directorate / Directeur, Direction Droits de l’Homme et Etat de droit

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

Stéphane LEYENBERGER, Executive secretary of the CEPEJ / Secrétaire exécutif de la CEPEJ

Muriel DECOT, Co-Secretary of the CEPEJ / Co-secrétaire de la CEPEJ

Clementina BARBARO, Head of Co-operation Unit / Chef de l’unité Coopération

Christel SCHURRER, Administrator / Administratrice

Lidija NAUMOVSKA, Statistician Administrator /Administratrice statisticienne

Clemence BOUQUEMONT, Administrator / Administratrice

Leonid ANTOHI, Project co-ordinator / Coordinateur de projets

Guergana LAZAROVA-DECHAUX, Assistant / Assistante

Paul MEYER, Project co-ordinator / Coordinateur de projets

Marianna PUCHE-FERNANDEZ, Project co-ordinator / Coordinatrice de projets

Annette SATTEL, Administration and Networks / Administration et Réseaux

Ioana VOELKEL, Administrative assistant / Assistante administrative

 

Mathilde QUEMIN, Trainee / Stagiaire

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INTERPRETERS / INTERPRÈTES

Rebecca BOWEN

Sylvie BOUX

Christine TRAPP



[1] * All references to Kosovo, whether the territory, institutions or population, in this text shall be understood in full compliance with United Nation's Security Council Resolution 1244 and without prejudice to the status of Kosovo.

* This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence.