CCPE(2018)4
Strasbourg, 23 November 2018
CONSULTATIVE COUNCIL OF EUROPEAN PROSECUTORS (CCPE)
13th plenary meeting
Strasbourg, 22 - 23 November 2018
ABRIDGED MEETING REPORT
A. FOREWORD
1. The Consultative Council of European Prosecutors (CCPE) held its 13th plenary meeting in Strasbourg on 22-23 November 2018. It was chaired by Peter McCORMICK (Ireland), President of the CCPE. The agenda and the list of participants are appended.
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. 13 (2018) on “Independence, accountability and ethics of prosecutors”;
and to note that this document would be forwarded to the relevant bodies in the member States, which would be encouraged to have it translated if need be, and to the relevant bodies of the Council of Europe in order that they may take account of it in their own work;
b. to take note of this report as a whole.
C. LIST OF ITEMS DISCUSSED AND DECISIONS TAKEN BY THE CCPE
3. opened its meeting by a minute of silencein tribute to Mr Harald RANGE, former President of the CCPE in 2007 and 2008, who had passed away. Mr RANGE remained active after his retirement, following closely the work of the CCPE. He had been entrusted by the CCPE with preparing the draft Opinion for 2018. The CCPE underlined Mr RANGE's outstanding contribution to the work of the CCPE;
4. took note of the information given by its President and its members and observers who had participated in various fora where the work of the CCPE had been presented and discussed;
5. agreedthat the Bureau would prepare the next "Situation report on the independence and impartiality of the prosecution services in the Council of Europe member States" in accordance with the CCPE’s terms of reference for 2019 and contributing to the implementation of the Council of Europe Plan of Action on strengthening judicial independence and impartiality;
6. adopted its Opinion No.13(2018) on “Independence, accountability and ethics of prosecutors” (CCPE(2018)2), subject to possible amendments on the form by its Bureau, which was entrusted to do so if needed, in order to ensure the necessary consistency between the English and French versions;
decided to submit it to the Committee of Ministers to take note of; invited member States to ensure its distribution as widely as possible among decision-makers and professionals of justice, including its translation where needed; decided to transmit it also to the observers to the CCPE as well as to the CEPEJ, the CCJE, the CDPC and its subordinate committees, so that they may take it into account in the course of their work;
7. decided to address in its 2019 Opinion the topic of the role of the prosecutor in the fight against corruption and economic and financial crimet and instructed its Bureau and the Working Group appointed for 2019 to define the exact title and to prepare a draft Opinion on this topic to be adopted at the CCPE’s 14th plenary meeting;
8. took note of the Committee of Ministers’ request addressed to the CCPE in particular for comments on PACE Recommendation 2142 (2018) on “Deal-making in criminal proceedings: the need for minimum standards for trial waiver systems” and decided to send comments, if any, to the Secretariat before 3 December 2018;
9. appointed Milica ANDJELIĆ-MANDIĆ (Montenegro), Erkin ALIKHANOV (Azerbaijan), David MELKONYAN (Armenia), Han MORAAL (The Netherlands), Peter McCORMICK (Ireland), Antonio MURA (Italy), Ali RIZA ÜLKER (Turkey), Cédric VISART de BOCARME (Belgium), Vladimir ZIMIN (Russian Federation) as members, and Jana ZEZULOVA (Czech Republic) as substitute member of the Working Group (CCPE-GT) responsible for preparing the 2019 draft Opinion to be submitted to the 14th plenary meeting of the CCPE;
10. elected José Manuel SANTOS PAIS (Portugal) as President and Antonio VERCHER NOGUERA (Spain) as Vice-President for 2019; elected Alessandra GIRALDI (Denmark) and Robert GELLI (France) as members of the Bureau for 2019 and 2020;
11. designated Gordana BOSILJCIC (Bosnia and Herzegovina)as the Gender Equality Rapporteur for 2019;
12. proposed to hold its 14th plenary meeting on 21-22 November 2019 in Paris;
13. proposed to hold the meetings of the Working Group (CCPE-GT) on 5-6 February 2019 and 6-7 June 2019; thankedthe member of the CCPE in respect of Italy for his invitation to hold, if necessary, one of the two meetings of the Working Group in Venice, at the Prosecutor General's Office; noted that the decision on the meeting venues would be taken later, in accordance with the rules of the Council of Europe.
APPENDIX I
AGENDA
1. Opening of the meeting
2. Adoption of the agenda
3. Information by the President, the CCPE members and the Secretariat
4. CCPE Opinion No. 13 (2018)
- Examination, in view of its adoption, of the draft Opinion No. 13 entitled “Independence, accountability and ethics of prosecutors”
5. CCPE Opinion No. 14(2019)
Choice of the topic of the Opinion
6. Working methods of the CCPE
- Election of the President and of the Vice-President of the CCPE for 2019
- Election of members of the CCPE Bureau for 2019
- Appointment of the CCPE Working Group for 2019
- Appointment of the CCPE Gender Equality Rapporteur for 2019
7. Calendar of the CCPE’s and CCPE-GT’s meetings in 2019
8. Any other business
APPENDIX II
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
MEMBER STATES / ETATS MEMBRES
ALBANIA/ALBANIE:
Ms Arta MARKU, Prosecutor General, General Prosecutor Office, Rr Qemal Stafa, TIRANA
(apologised/excusée)
ANDORRA/ANDORRE:
M. Ivan ALIS SALGUERO, Procureur Adjoint, Parquet Général de la Principauté d’Andorre, ANDORRA LA VELLA
ARMENIA/ARMENIE:
Mr Davit MELKONYAN, Deputy Prosecutor General, Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic of Armenia, YEREVAN
AUSTRIA/AUTRICHE:
Mag. Michael LEITNER, Attorney General (Generalanwalt), Generalprokuratur, VIENNA
AZERBAIJAN/AZERBAIDJAN:
Mr Erkin ALIKHANOV, Director of the International Relations Department, Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Azerbaijan, BAKU
BELGIUM/BELGIQUE:
M. Cédric VISART de BOCARMÉ, Directeur du service d’appui commun auprès du Collège des procureurs généraux et du Collège du ministère public, BRUXELLES
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA/BOSNIE ET HERZEGOVINE:
Ms Gordana BOSILJČIĆ, Prosecutor, Office of the Chief Prosecutor, Prosecutor's Office, SARAJEVO
BULGARIA/BULGARIE:
Mr Sava PETROV, Prosecutor, International Department of the Supreme Cassation Prosecutor`s Office, the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Bulgaria, SOFIA
CROATIA/CROATIE:
Mr Josip ČULE, Deputy Attorney General, Head of International Legal Assistance and Cooperation Department, ZAGREB
(apologised/excusé)
CYPRUS/CHYPRE:
Ms Despina KYPRIANOU, Senior Counsel of the Republic for the Attorney General of the Republic of Cyprus, the Law Office of the Republic of Cyprus, NICOSIA
(apologised/excusée)
CZECH REPUBLIC/REPUBLIQUE TCHEQUE:
Ms Jana ZEZULOVÁ, Public Prosecutor, Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office, Analytic and Legislative Department, BRNO
DENMARK/DANEMARK:
Ms Alessandra GIRALDI, Deputy Chief Director, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, COPENHAGEN
ESTONIA/ESTONIE:
Mr Tristan PLOOM, State Prosecutor, the Office of the Prosecutor General, TALLINN
(apologised/excusé)
FINLAND/FINLANDE:
Ms Raija TOIVIAINEN, Prosecutor General, the Office of the Prosecutor General, HELSINKI
France:
M. Robert GELLI, Procureur général près la Cour d’appel d’Aix-en Provence, Cour d'Appel d'Aix-en-Provence, AIX-EN-PROVENCE
GEORGIA/GEORGIE:
Mr Giorgi GOGADZE, Deputy Chief Prosecutor, Office of the Chief Prosecutor of Georgia, TBILISSI
GERMANY/ALLEMAGNE:
Dr. Sonja HEINE, Attorney General (Bundesanwaltschaft), Senior Prosecutor, KARLSRUHE
GREECE/GRECE:
Ms Eleni METSOVITOU-FLOURI, Deputy Public Prosecutor of the Supreme Court (Areios Pagos), Supreme Court's Public Prosecution Office, ATHENS
HUNGARY/HONGRIE:
Mr Peter POLT, Prosecutor General of Hungary, Office of the Prosecutor General, BUDAPEST
ICELAND/ISLANDE:
Mr Helgi Magnús GUNNARSSON, Deputy Director, Office of the Director of Public Prosecution, REYKJAVIK
IRELAND/IRLANDE:
Mr Peter McCORMICK, President of the CCPE, Assistant Chief Prosecutor, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, DUBLIN
ITALY/ITALIE:
Mr Antonio MURA, Prosecutor General at the Court of Appeal of Venice, VENICE
Mr Stefano CAVANNA, Member of the High Council for the Judiciary, Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura (CSM), ROME
Mr Sebastiano ARDITA, Member of the High Council for the Judiciary, Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura (CSM), ROME
LATVIA/LETTONIE:
Ms Dagmara SKUDRA, Deputy Prosecutor General, Head Prosecutor of the Department of Analysis and Management, General Prosecutor’s Office, RIGA
LIECHTENSTEIN:
Mr Frank HAUN, Deputy Prosecutor General, Office of the Public Prosecutor, Principality of Liechtenstein, VADUZ
LITHUANIA/LITUANIE:
Mr Darius KARCINSKAS, Deputy Prosecutor General, Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic of Lithuania, VILNIUS
Luxembourg:
Mme Martine SOLOVIEFF, Procureur général d’Etat de Luxembourg, Parquet Général, Cité judiciaire – Plateau du Saint-Esprit, LUXEMBOURG
MALTA/MALTE:
Dr. Peter GRECH, Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, VALLETTA
(apologised/excusé)
REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA/ REPOUBLIQUE DE MOLDOVA:
Ms Angela MOTUZOC, Chairman of the Superior Council of Prosecutors of the Republic of Moldova, CHISINAU
MONACO:
Mme Sylvie PETIT-LECLAIR, Procureur Général de la Principauté de Monaco, Parquet Général, MONACO
MONTENEGRO/MONTÉNÉGRO:
Ms Milica ANDJELIĆ-MANDIĆ, State Prosecutor, Basic State Prosecutor’s Office, PODGORICA
NETHERLANDS/PAYS-BAS:
Mr Han J. MORAAL LL.M. MPA, Chief Public Prosecutor, Eurojust National member for the Netherlands, Secretary General of the International Association of Prosecutors (IAP), THE HAGUE
NORWAY/NORVEGE:
Mr Runar TORGENSEN, Senior Public Prosecutor at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution, OSLO
(apologised/excusé)
POLAND/POLOGNE:
Mr Bogusław NOCUŃ, Prosecutor, Bureau of International Cooperation, National Prosecutor’s Office, WARSAW
PORTUGAL:
M. José Manuel SANTOS PAIS, Vice-Président du CCPE, Procureur-Général Adjoint à la Cour Constitutionnelle du Portugal, Tribunal Constitucional, LISBOA
ROMANIA/ROUMANIE:
Ms Daniela Eugenia BADICA, Prosecutor, Service for International Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters, International Relations and Programs, Prosecutor's Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice of Romania, BUCHAREST
RUSSIAN FEDERATION/FÉDÉRATION DE RUSSIE:
Mr Vladimir ZIMIN, Senior Assistant to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation on special tasks, Office of the Prosecutor General, MOSCOW
Mr Sergey ZAMURUEV, Head of the General Department of Personnel, Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation, MOSCOW
SERBIA/SERBIE:
Mr Branko STAMENKOVIC, Deputy Republic Public Prosecutor, Republic Public Prosecutor’s Office, BELGRADE
(apologised/excusé)
SLOVAK REPUBLIC/REPUBLIQUE SLOVAQUE:
Mr Miroslav TIŽA, Prosecutor of the International Department, General Prosecutor's Office of the Slovak Republic, European Judicial Network (EJN) Contact Point, BRATISLAVA
SLOVENIA/SLOVENIE:
Ms Irena KUZMA, Supreme State Prosecutor, the Office of the State Prosecutor General of the Republic of Slovenia, LJUBLJANA
SPAIN/ESPAGNE:
Mr Antonio VERCHER NOGUERA, Deputy Attorney General for environmental matters, Fiscalia de medio ambiente y urbanismo, MADRID
SWEDEN/SUEDE:
Ms Agnetha HILDING QVARNSTRÖM, Chief Public Prosecutor, Swedish Prosecution Authority, STOCKHOLM
SWITZERLAND/SUISSE:
M. Paul-Xavier CORNU, Procureur général suppléant, Ministère public de la Confédération MPC, BERNE
(apologised/excusé)
“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
(apologised/excusé)
TURKEY/TURQUIE:
Mr Ali Rıza ÜLKER, Rapporteur Judge, Foreign Affairs and Project Department, Council of Judges and Prosecutors of Turkey (CJP), ANKARA
Ms Emine Burcu SİNOPLU, Rapporteur Judge, Council of Judges and Prosecutors of Turkey (CJP), ANKARA
UKRAINE:
Mr Yevgueniy YENIN, Deputy Prosecutor General, Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, KIEV
Mr Nazar KHOLODNYTSKYI, Deputy Prosecutor General, Head of Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutors Office, KIEV
UNITED KINGDOM/ROYAUME-UNI:
Mr Stuart ALLEN, Specialist Prosecutor, Strategic Policy, Private Office, Crown Prosecution Service, LONDON
(apologised/excusé)
SCIENTIFIC EXPERT / EXPERT SCIENTIFIQUE
M. Olivier DE BAYNAST, Ancien membre au titre de la France et Ancien Président du CCPE, Ancien Procureur Général près la cour d'appel d'Amiens, SAINS MORAINVILLERS, FRANCE
OBSERVER STATES / ETATS OBSERVATEURS
KAZAKHSTAN
Mr Marat AKHMETZHANOV, Deputy Prosecutor General of the Republic of Kazakhstan, ASTANA
Mr Aibek NURAKHMETOV, Deputy Head of Department of International Relations, Head of Division of Contractual and Legal Work of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan, ASTANA
Mr Askhat ABLAISSOV, Representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Council of Europe, STRASBOURG
OBSERVERS / OBSERVATEURS
« Magistrats européens pour la démocratie et les libertés »
(MEDEL)
Ms Iria SABELLA GONZALEZ, Prosecutor, Board Member of MEDEL, BERLIN, GERMANY
OTHER EXPERTS / AUTRES EXPERTS
MOROCCO / MAROC
M. Mohamed OUKHLIFA, Magistrat, Chargé de la coopération technique et de la coopération internationale, Présidence du Ministère Public, RABAT, ROYAUME DU MAROC
OTHER PARTICIPANTS / AUTRES PARTICIPANTS
Mr Ghenadie BARBA, Chief, Rule of Law Unit, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, WARSAW, POLAND
COUNCIL OF EUROPE’S SECRETARIAT / SECRETARIAT DU CONSEIL DE L’EUROPE
DG I – Directorate General Human Rights and Rule of Law / DG 1 – Direction Générale des droit de l’Homme et état de Droit
Division for the independence and the efficiency of Justice
Division pour l'indépendance et l'efficacité de la justice
(CCPE E-mail: [email protected])
Mr Christophe POIREL, Director, Directorate of Human Rights / DG 1 – Directeur, Direction des droits de l’Homme
Ms Hanne JUNCHER, Head of Justice and Legal Co-operation Department / Chef du Service de la coopération judiciaire et juridique
Ms Muriel DÉCOT, Secretary to the CCPE / Secrétaire du CCPE
Mr Artashes MELIKYAN, Co-Secretary of the CCPE / Co-Secrétaire du CCPE
Ms Annette SATTEL, Administration and Networks / Administration et Réseaux
Ms Anna KHROMOVA, Administrative Assistant / Assistante administrative
Ms Despina TRAMOUNTANI, Administrative Assistant / Assistante administrative
Ms Mathilde QUEMIN, Trainee / Stagiaire
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INTERPRETERS / INTERPRETES
Mr Grégoire DEVICTOR
Mr Christopher TYCZKA
Mr Didier JUNGLING