Strasbourg, 12 December 2014                                                                                                          

CEPEJ(2014)18

européAN COMMISSION FOR THE EFFICIENCY OF Justice (CEPEJ)

24th plenary meeting (11 – 12 December 2014)

Abridged report

A.   FOREWORD

The European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) held its 24th plenary meeting in Strasbourg on 11 – 12 December 2014. The meeting was chaired by Mr John STACEY (United Kingdom).

The agenda appears in Appendix.

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

The CEPEJ:

  1. Information by the President of the CEPEJ, CPEJ members and the Secretariat

§  took note of the information given by its President, its members and its Secretariat who had participated in various fora where the work of the CEPEJ was presented and discussed; welcomed the active participation of CEPEJ in 2014 in 43 fora (in 23 states) dealing with issues of direct relevance to the functioning of justice;

  1. Recent developments in the judicial field in the Council of Europe member states

§  took note of the information given by representatives of Azerbaijan, Croatia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Republic of Moldova, the Netherlands, Serbia, “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, Morocco, Jordan, on recent domestic developments in the judicial field and invited its members to forward to the Secretariat written information and useful references which could be included in the area "country profiles" of its web site;

  1. CEPEJ co-operation programmes

§  welcomed the ongoing and future cooperation programmes, which allow the practical implementation of the methodology and tools of the CEPEJ and thus provide a strong added value to the work of the Council of Europe in the beneficiary states, in particular:

-     in Albania, in the framework of the ongoing Joint Programme with the European Union for the "Support to the Efficiency of Justice" (SEJ),

-     in Croatia, in the framework of the programme funded by the EEA/Norway Grant for improving the quality and efficiency of the judicial system,

-     in Azerbaijan, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine, as part of the new Joint Programme with the European Union, following the regional programme for the Eastern Partnership countries, aimed to continue cooperation for the efficiency of judicial systems,

-     in Turkey, as part of the new cooperation programme with the Swedish authorities (SIDA) to promote mediation on the basis of the CEPEJ Guidelines,

-     in Morocco, Tunisia and Jordan, as part of the neighbourhood policy and the ongoing Joint Programmes with the European Union for the reforms of the judicial systems;

§  noted that these programmes could be complemented during the year 2015 by a new Joint Programme with the European Union for the countries of South East Europe;

§  underlined that the implementation of these numerous programmes by the CEPEJ requires the availability of members and experts of the CEPEJ and called upon its members and experts to inform the Secretariat of their willingness to participate in these programmes;

  1. Evaluation of judicial systems

§  noted with great satisfaction the excellent reception by the Committee of Ministers of the Report, as well as the positive responses received as regards this Report in many member states, from policy makers, justice practitioners and the media;

 

§  invited its members to disseminate the Report to the competent authorities and judicial professionals of their country, in particular by facilitating its translation (at least the translation of its overview), where appropriate, and to forward as soon as possible to the Secretariat information on the way the Report is used by the state authorities and any press articles, written on a national level, that concern the Report;

§  decided to launch the next evaluation process in 2015 on the basis of data of the year 2014, with a view to publishing a new evaluation report in 2016; instructed the Secretariat, under the authority of its Bureau and the CEPEJ-GT-EVAL, and subject to available funding, to develop further the techniques for collecting, processing and analysing data, and instructed the CEPEJ-GT-EVAL to propose subsequently a new form for presenting and analysing data resulting from this work;

§  instructed the CEPEJ-GT-EVALto review the Evaluation Scheme and its subsequent explanatory note, without increasing the workload of the national correspondents and having in mind the stabilization of the questionnaire, and agreed to adopt these documents through a written procedure before 1 May 2015;

§  agreed that the electronic Scheme should be opened for reply by national correspondents as from 15 May 2015 until 31 December 2015 and urged the national correspondents to comply with such a timeframe, in order for the data to be processed from January 2016;

stressed that part of the Scheme would also be used within the framework of the cooperation with the European Commission (see next item), which implied that, for this part of the Scheme, the national correspondents concerned were urged to respond already by 1 October 2015;  

§  welcomed the ongoing cooperation with the European Commission in the evaluation of judicial systems and noted that a Study on judicial systems in the member states of the European Union was being prepared, based on the methodology developed by the CEPEJ, from the 2013 data, aimed to provide information allowing the European Commission to prepare its "EU Justice Scoreboard”;

§  confirmed its willingness to pursue its cooperation with OECD as regards the evaluation of the functioning of judicial systems;

§  instructed the CEPEJ-GT-EVAL to launch calls to external researchers for projects that might benefit from a CEPEJ label on the basis of a specific protocol and to manage this process, under the authority of the Bureau, while ensuring proper coordination with the other working groups; instructed it in particular to work, including through possible new questions, on the consequences of the use of ITC on the human resources of courts;

§  took note of the reports of the peer evaluation visits in Israel (23-24 March 2014), Estonia (14-15 April 2014) and Switzerland (4-5 September 2014), agreed to pursue the cycle of peer evaluation visits on judicial statistics in 2015, andinvited the member states to confirm at the beginning of 2015 their willingness to organise such visits;

  1. Quality of justice

§  adopted its Guidelines on the organisation and accessibility of court premises (CEPEJ(2014)15) and decided to forward them to the Committee of Ministers so that it may take note of them, as well as to the relevant Committees and bodies of the Council of Europe so that they can make use of them when appropriate; invited its members to organise the translation of these Guidelines into non-official languages and to ensure a wide dissemination among the relevant political and judicial authorities in their countries;

invited its members to bring to the attention of the CEPEJ plans for new constructions or recently built buildings, so as to facilitate the exchange of experiences on architectural projects;

§  adopted its Guidelines on the role of technical experts in the judicial proceedings (CEPEJ(2014)14) and decided to forward them to the Committee of Ministers so that it may take note of them, as well as to the relevant Committees and bodies of the Council of Europe so that they can make use of them when appropriate; invited its members to organise the translation of these Guidelines into non-official languages and to ensure a wide dissemination among the relevant political and judicial authorities in their countries;

§  welcomed the ongoing cooperation with the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) aimed to prepare jointly a “Handbook on access to justice in Europe”;

§  instructed the CEPEJ-GT-QUAL to pursue its work on the definition of indicators for the quality of justice and for promoting the Guidelines for a better implementation of the existing Council of Europe’s Recommendation on enforcement, as well as in the field of effective remedies as safeguarded by ECHR Article 13; it also instructed it to reflect on the issue of “virtual judicial offices” and that of public access to legislation and court case-law "; 

  1. SATURN Centre for judicial time management

§  adopted its revised Guidelines on judicial time management(CEPEJ(2014)16), including guidelines aimed at prosecutors, and decided to forward them to the Committee of Ministers so that it can take note of them, as well as to the relevant Committees and bodies of the Council of Europe so that they can make use of them when appropriate; invited its members to organise the translation of these Guidelines into non-official languages and to ensure a wide dissemination among the relevant political and judicial authorities in their countries;

§  approved an opinion (CEPEJ(2014)19) prepared by the CEPEJ-SATURN, in cooperation with the European Union of Rechtspfleger (EUR), aimed at proposing to the European Committee for Legal Cooperation (CDCJ) to update Recommendation Rec(86)12 concerning measures to prevent and reduce the excessive workload in the courts and decided to forward it to the CDCJ for consideration;

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

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

§  took note of the information provided about the activities of the Consultative Council of European Judges (CCJE), the Consultative Council of European Prosecutors (CCPE), the European Committee for Legal Cooperation (CDCJ) and the Steering Committee on Crime Problems (CDPC), and confirmed its availability to pursue cooperation with them within the framework of their work;

 

§  agreed in particular to strengthen exchanges with the CCJE and CCPE within the framework of the process for evaluating judicial systems;

§  noted with interest the proposal by the representative of the CDPC to organise a joint meeting of the Bureaus of the above mentioned committees;

  1. Information regarding the European Union

§  took note of the information provided by the representatives Italy and Latvia, speaking on behalf of the outgoing and incoming presidencies of the European Union, about the recent and planned developments within the Union in the field of justice;

  1. European Day of Justice and Crystal Scales of Justice

§  thanked the Portuguese authorities for having organised the  main event of the 2014 European Day of Justice in Aveiro around the issue of judicial mediation, including an interesting film festival on mediation, as well as the judicial authorities in 12 member states which organised specific events within the framework of this Day;

§  welcomed the success of the European Prize: "the Crystal Scales of Justice" and congratulated the winner:the General Council of the Spanish Bar, for its initiative “ Online legal aid: Better solutions for people’s rights”, as well as the three institutions which were granted a special mention by the jury: the Estonian Ministry of Justice for “A central Database for Justice (E-File)”, the courts for family affairs and the Bar of Berlin (Germany) for: “An accelerated family procedure” and the Amsterdam Court of Appeal (Netherlands) for its “European Courts weblog and European law newsletters”;

 

invited its members to promote candidacies for the next edition of the "Crystal Scales of Justice";

  1. Observers to the CEPEJ

§  took note of the information provided by its Observers, and in particular the European Association of Judges, the International Union of Bailiffs and Judicial Officers (UIHJ), the Council of European Bars and Law Society (CCBE), the European Union of Rechtspfleger (EUR), thanked themfor their concrete contribution to its activities, notably in the drafting of the report evaluating judicial systems, and invited them to contribute further to the implementation of its activity programme;

  1. Working methods of the CEPEJ

§  to ensure better continuity in the work of the CEPEJ, and strengthen the network of the CEPEJ, considering  the increasing number of tasks assigned to it, decided that each member state would be invited to appoint, in addition to the member CEPEJ a substitute member;


therefore decided to amend Article 1 of its Rules of procedure (CEPEJ/GENERAL(2003)3) as follows: "Each member State shall appoint its delegation under Article 5 of the Statute of the CEPEJ. It is invited to appoint in particular a member and a substitute member, notwithstanding that the travel and subsistence expenses of only one expert are covered by the budget of the Council of Europe";

§  in order to cope with the growing demand for CEPEJ experts, particularly in the framework of the implementation of cooperation programmes, called on its members to appoint experts willing to participate in the work of the CEPEJ, possibly before 15 January 2015, instructed the Secretariat to organise training sessions for these experts, in order that they may contribute to promoting the CEPEJ tools within the framework of these programmes and noted that a first training session would take place in Paris on 30 January 2015;

 

  1. Election of the Bureau

§  elected for a two year period Georg STAWA (Austria) as President of the CEPEJ, Irakli ADEISHVILI (Georgia) as Vice-President of the CEPEJ, elected Ivana BORZOVA (Czech Republic) and Ramin GURBANOV (Azerbaijan), as members of the Bureau for a two year period;

§  expressed its warm thanks to Mr John STACEY 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 within the Council of Europe;

  1. Any other business

§  took note of the 2015 provisional working agenda which appears in Appendix 3 to this report and noted in particular that the next plenary meetings of the CEPEJ could take place on 17-19 June or 1 - 3 July 2015 in Croatia, and on 10 - 11 December 2015 in Strasbourg;thanked the Croatian authorities for their invitation to possibly hold the plenary meeting in their country in 2015 and the Greek authorities for their invitation to hold a plenary meeting in Thessaloniki in 2016.

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APPENDIX I

AGENDA

  1. Opening of the meting

  1. Adoption of the agenda          

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

  1. Recent developments in the judicial field in the Council of Europe member states

  1. CEPEJ co-operation programmes

i.       Norway Grant programme: Improving the quality and efficiency of the judicial system through infrastructure development and better management in Croatia

Rapporteur: Ivan CRNČEC (Croatia)

ii.      Joint programme with the European Union for Albania

Rapporteur: Secretariat

iii.     Joint Programme with the European Union for the Eastern Partnership : efficiency of justice in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Ukraine

Rapporteur: Frans van der Doelen (Netherlands)

iv.     Neighbourhood policy: Joint programmes with the European Union for Morocco, Tunisia (“South programme”) and Jordan

Rapporteurs: Jacques BÜHLER (Switzerland), Jean-Paul JEAN (France), Audun BERG (Norway)

v.      Perspectives for further co-operation

  1. Evaluation of European judicial systems

Rapporteur: Jean-Paul JEAN (France), Chair of the CEPEJ-GT-EVAL

i.       Impact of the report “European judicial systems – Edition 2014”

ii.      Implementation of the 2014 - 2016 evaluation cycle 

a.     amendement of the evaluation scheme

b.    towards a possible new pattern, based on a new data collection and processing system

iii.     Cooperation with the European Union within the framework of the “Justice Scoreboard”

iv.     Specific cooperation with non CoE member states

§     cooperation with OECD

§     other cooperation

v.      Implementation of the pilot peer evaluation co-operation process

  1. Quality of justice (CEPEJ-GT-QUAL)

Rapporteur: François PAYCHĖRE (Switzerland), Chair of the CEPEJ-GT-QUAL

i.              Discussion, with a view to their adoption, of the draft Guidelines on the organisation and accessibility of court premises

ii.             Discussion, with a view to their adoption, of the draft Guidelines on the role of technical experts in the judicial proceedings

iii.            Cooperation with the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) on the « Handbook on access to justice in Europe 

iv.            Promoting the Guidelines for a better implementation of the existing Council of Europe’s Recommendation on enforcement

  1. SATURN Centre for judicial time management: information about the on-going activities

Rapporteur: Jacques BÜHLER (Switzerland), Chair of the Steering group of the SATURN Centre

i.              Discussion, with a view to their adoption, of the draft revised Guidelines on judicial time management

ii.             Proposal for updating Recommendation Rec(86)12 concerning measures to prevent and reduce the excessive workload in the courts

iii.            Other work of the CEPEJ-SATURN

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

i.       Consultative Council of European Judges (CCJE)

ii.      Consultative Council of European Prosecutors (CCPE)

iii.     European Committee on Legal Cooperation (CDCJ)

  1. Information regarding the European Union: last developments within the European Union in the judicial field

Rapporteurs: Giacomo OBERTO (Italy) and Aija BRANTA (Latvia) on behalf of the outgoing and incoming presidencies of the European Union 

  1. European Day of Justice and Crystal Scales of Justice

Introduction to the initiatives awarded within the framework of the Prize “Crystal Scales of Justice”:

-       The General Council of Spanish Bar: “ Online legal aid: Better solutions for people’s rights” (winner)

-       Ministry of Justice, Estonia: “A central Database for Justice (E-File)”

-       Family affairs courts and Bar, Berlin, Germany: “An accelerated familial procedure”

-       Amsterdam Court of Appeal, The Netherlands: “European Courts weblog and European law newsletters”

  1. Observers to the CEPEJ

  1. Working method of the CEPEJ: how to get and train more CEPEJ experts to participate in the cooperation activities?

Rapporteur: Secretariat

  1. Election of the Bureau

  1. Any other business

APPENDIX II

List of participants / Liste des participants

CEPEJ MEMBERS / MEMBRES DE LA CEPEJ

ARMENIA/ARMENIE

Armen SANOYAN, Head of International Treaties Expertise Division, Department of International Legal Affairs of the Administration, Ministry of Justice, YEREVAN

AUSTRIA/AUTRICHE

Georg STAWA, Head of Department Pr 8, Projects, Strategy and Innovation, Federal Ministry of Justice, VIENNA (Vice-President of the CEPEJ / Vice-Président de la CEPEJ)

AZERBAIJAN/AZERBAÏDJAN

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

Elchin GASIMOV, Director of the General department of Organization and Supervision, Ministry of justice

Huseyn AKHUNDOV, Deputy to the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Council of Europe

BELGIUM/BELGIQUE 

Dietger GEERAERT, Attaché Service Juridique, Direction Générale de l'Organisation Judiciaire, Service public fédéral Justice, BRUXELLES

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA/BOSNIE-HERZÉGOVINE

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

Rusmir Šabeta, Head of the Judicial Administration Department, Secretariat of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial, Council 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, European Union and International Co-Operation Directorate, Ministry of justice, ZAGREB

CYPRUS/CHYPRE

Efi PAPADOPOULOU, 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, Danish Court, Administration, Center for Law, Training and Communications, COPENHAGEN

ESTONIA/ESTONIE

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

Valéry TURCEY, Chef du Service des Affaires Européennes et Internationales, du ministère de la Justice, PARIS

GEORGIA/GÉORGIE

Irakli ADEISHVILI, Judge, Chamber of Civil Cases, Tbilisi Appeals Court, TBILISI

GERMANY / ALLEMAGNE

Matthias HEGER, Chef du Service de Procédure civile internationale, Ministère fédéral de la justice BERLIN

Anna-Lena LUX, Richterin, Referentin für Europa- und Wissenschaftsrecht, Justizministerium Baden-Württemberg, STUTTGART

GREECE/GRÈCE

Michalis PIKRAMENOS, Ministry of Justice, Counselor of the State, 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, REYKJAVÍK

IRELAND/IRLANDE

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

Caroline MURPHY, Courts Policy Division, Department of Justice and Equality, DUBLIN

ITALY/ITALIE

Giacomo OBERTO, Magistrat, Tribunal de Grande Instance, TURIN

LATVIA/LETTONIE

Aija BRANTA, Judge of the Supreme Court, RIGA

LITHUANIA/LITUANIE

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

LUXEMBOURG 

Catherine TRIERWEILER, Attachée de Gouvernement, Ministère de la Justice, Direction des affaires pénales et judiciaires, LUXEMBOURG

MALTA/MALTE

Francesco DEPASQUALE, Magistrate, Court of Justice, Ministry of Justice and Home Affairs, 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

Stéphanie MOUROU VIKSTRÖM, Premier juge au Tribunal de première instance, Palais de Justice, MONACO

 

MONTENEGRO/MONTÉNÉGRO

Tijana BADNJAR, Ministry of Justice, Directorate for Judiciary, Department for Civil Legislation, PODGORICA

NETHERLANDS/PAYS‑BAS

Frans VAN DER DOELEN, Programme Manager of the Department of the Justice System, Ministry of Justice, THE HAGUE

NORWAY/NORVÈGE

Audun BERG, Senior adviser, the National Courts Administration, TRONDHEIM (apologised / excusé)

POLAND/POLOGNE

Jakub MICHALSKI, Assistant to the Undersecretary of State, 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 KRIVOSHEEVA, Consultant, Department of International Law and Cooperation, Ministry of Justice, MOSCOW

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

Elena TRUFANOVA, Deputy Head of the Department of International Legal Cooperation of the Judicial Department of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation

Maxim TOKAREV, Représentant Adjoint, Ministère de la Justice, Appareil Extérieur, Représentation permanente de la Fédération de Russie auprès du Conseil de l’Europe

SERBIA/SERBIE

Nela KUBUROVIC, Assistant Minister for Judiciary , Ministry of Justice and Public Administration, BELGRADE

Ivana NINČIĆ, Consultant for the Reform of Legal Professions, Sector for European Integration and International Projects, Reform/Accession Facilitation Unit, Ministry of Justice, BELGRADE

SLOVAK REPUBLIC/RÉPUBLIQUE SLOVAQUE

Ladislav DUDITS,Judge, Kosice Regional Court, KOSICE

SLOVENIA /SLOVENIE

Marko SORLI, Head of the Criminal Division, Supreme Court, LJUBLJANA

SPAIN/ESPAGNE

Antonio GUTIÉRREZ CARDENETE, Legal Adviser. Directorate General-General of International Legal Cooperation and Religious Affairs. Ministry of Justice, MADRID

SWEDEN/SUÈDE

Pia ESPELAND NYHLEN, Legal adviser, the Swedish National Courts Administration (apologised / excusée)

SWITZERLAND/SUISSE

Jacques BÜHLER, Secrétaire Général suppléant, Tribunal fédéral suisse, LAUSANNE 14 (Chair of the Steering Group of the SATURN Centre/ Président du Groupe de Pilotage du Centre SATURN)

"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 CETIN, Judge working for the Ministry of Justice at the Department for Strategy Development, ANKARA

Sadi DEMIR, Judge, Ministry of Justice, ANKARA

UKRAINE

Igor SAMSIN, Président de la Haute Commission à la qualification des juges de l’Ukraine, KYIV

UNITED KINGDOM/ROYAUME‑UNI

John STACEY, Government Advisor for Efficiency and Quality of Justice (President of the CEPEJ / Président de la CEPEJ)

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

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CHAIRS Of Working GROUPS OF THE cePEJ

PRESIDENTS DES GROUPES DE TRAVAIL DE LA CEPEJ

CEPEJ-GT-QUAL

François PAYCHÈRE, Président de la Cour des comptes, GENEVE , SUISSE (Chair of the GT-QUAL / Président du GT-QUAL) 

CEPEJ-GT-EVAL

Jean-Paul JEAN, Président de chambre, Directeur du service de documentation, des études et du rapport, Chef du service des relations internationales, Cour de cassation, PARIS (Chair of the GT-EVAL / Président du GT-EVAL)

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OBSERVER STATES / ÉTATS OBSERVATEURS

JAPAN /JAPON

Takaaki SHINTAKU, Consul, Attorney, Consulat Général du Japon à Strasbourg,

ISRAEL / ISRAËL

Gali AVIV, Director of the Israel Courts Research Division, Supreme Court of Israel, Jerusalem, ISRAEL

Inbal GALON, researcher at the Courts Research Division, Supreme Court of Israel, Jerusalem, ISRAEL

MOROCCO /MAROC

Mustapha SIMO, Président du tribunal administratif de Rabat

Soufiane DRIOUECH, Président du TPI de Nador

Abderrafi EROUIHANE, Ministère de la Justice

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INVITED STATE /PAYS INVITE

TUNISIA / TUNISIE

Walid ARFAOUI, juge cantonal, Zaghouan

Raja CHAOUACHI, présidente du tribunal de première instance de Tunis

Mongi CHALGHOUM, président du tribunal de première instance de Zaghouan

JORDAN / JORDANIE

Moh’d Awwad Haza’ Al GHRAIR, President of Amman First Instance Court

Khaled Abdelrazzaq M. AL NSOUR, President of Madaba First Instance Court

Ziad AL MUHAREB, Judge, Sahab Magistrates’ Court

Osama Mohammad AL KHAWALDEH, quality engineer, Quality Management Department, Ministry of Justice

Zied AL TALAFEH, office manager of the Chief Justice

Ala K. ASALI, Programme Officer

OBSERVERS / OBSERVATEURS

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

Simone CUOMO, Senior Legal Advisor, Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM

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

Christophe REGNARD,  President of the International Association of Judges, PARIS, FRANCE

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

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

Vivien WHYTE, Greffier au Tribunal de Grande Instance de Strasbourg, STRASBOURG, FRANCE

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

Leo NETTEN, Président de l'UIHJ, PARIS, FRANCE

Mathieu CHARDON, Huissier de justice, Premier secrétaire de l’UIHJ, 78490 MONFORT L’AMAURY, FRANCE

EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGES / FÉDÉRATION EUROPÉENNE DES JUGES ADMINISTRATIFS

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

COUNCIL OF THE NOTARIATS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION / CONSEIL DES NOTARIATS DE L’UNION EUROPEENNE

Edmond GRESSER, notaire, LA WANTZENAU, FRANCE

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EUROPEAN UNION / UNION EUROPÉENNE

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

Jana GAJDOSOVA, Research Officer, Freedoms and Justice Department, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, VIENNA

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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) / ORGANISATION POUR LA COOPERATION ET LE DEVELOPPEMENT ECONOMIQUES (OCDE)

Martin FORST, Head, Governance Reviews and Partnerships Division, Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate, PARIS

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

Jean-Raymond LEMAIRE, Expert près de la Cour d’Appel de Versailles agréé par la Cour de Cassation, Président du Comité Exécutif de l’EEEI, LEVALLOIS-PERRET, FRANCE

Alain NUEE, Expert, Ancien Premier Président de la Cour d’Appel de Versailles, FRANCE

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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)

Gerhard REISSNER, President of the International Association of Judges, President of the District Court of Floridsdorf, VIENNA, AUSTRIA

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

Julia FLOCKERMANN, Division of Public International Law, Bundesministerium der Justiz, BERLIN, GERMANY

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

Fabienne SCHALLER, Chargée de Mission pour les négociations et la transposition des normes pénales internationales, Direction des affaires criminelles et des grâces, Ministère de la Justice et des libertés, PARIS, FRANCE

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REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PROJECTS SELECTED IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE CRYSTAL SCALES OF JUSTICE PRIZE / REPRESENTANTS SELECTIONNES DANS LE CADRE DU PRIX BALANCE DE CRISTAL

Diego Rafael LEÓN BURGOS, Letrado, General Council of Spanish Bars [Online legal aid: Better solutions for people’s rights]. / Le Conseil général des barreaux espagnols [L’aide judiciaire en ligne : de meilleures solutions pour les citoyens

Tatjana MATJAS, Business Analyst of Department for Law Enforcement Information Systems, Centre of Registers and Information Systems, Ministry of Justice, ESTONIA [A central Database for Justice (E-File)] / Ministère de la Justice, Estonie [Une base de données judiciaire centralisée]

Christiane ABEL, Amtsgericht Tempelhof-Kreuzberg, Family affairs courts and Bar, Berlin, Germany [An accelerated familial procedure] / Une procédure familiale accélérée [Tribunaux aux affaires familiales et Barreau, Berlin, Allemagne]

Marc DE WERD, judge, Gerechtscoördinator Europees recht, Amsterdam Court of Appeal, Netherlands, [European Courts weblog and European law newsletters] / Cour d’Appel, Amsterdam [Blog sur les tribunaux européens et newsletter sur le droit européen]

Other participants / autres participants

Bartolomeo CAPPELLINA, Doctorant, Centre Emily Durkheim, Sciences Po Bordeaux, FRANC

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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

Fax: +33 3 88 41 37 43

E-mail: [email protected]

Hanne JUNCHER, Head of the Justice and Legal Co-operation Department / Service de la cooperation judiciaire et juridique,Tel: +33 3 88 41 24 37, e-mail: [email protected]

Stéphane LEYENBERGER, Secretary of the CEPEJ / Secrétaire de la CEPEJ, Tel : +33 3 88 41 34 12, e-mail: [email protected]

Muriel DECOT, Co-Secretary of the CEPEJ / Co-secrétaire de la CEPEJ, Tél: +33 3 90 21 44 55, e-mail : [email protected]

Christel SCHURRER, Administratrice auprès de la CEPEJ, Tél. : +33 3 90 21 56 97, e-mail: [email protected]

Clementina BARBARO, Administrator / Administratrice, Tél : +33 3 90 21 55 04, e-mail : [email protected]

Lidija NAUMOSKA, Statitistician Administrator / Administratrice statisticienne, Tél. :+33 3 88 41 22 22 49, e-mail: [email protected]

Yannick MENECEUR, Special Advisor to the Secretariat of the CEPEJ, Special Counselor to the Secretariat of the CEPEJ / Conseiller spécial auprès du Secrétariat de la CEPEJ,Tél : 33 3 90 21 53 59, e-mail : [email protected]

Sophio GELASHVILI, Secretariat of the CEPEJ / Secrétariat de la CEPEJ, e-mail: [email protected]

Félicie DIARD-DETOEUF, Secretariat of the CEPEJ / Secrétariat de la CEPEJ, e-mail: [email protected]

Guergana LAZAROVA-DECHAUX, Secretariat of the CEPEJ / Secrétariat de la CEPEJ, e-mail : [email protected]

Paul MEYER, Secretariat of the CEPEJ / Secrétariat de la CEPEJ, e-mail : [email protected]

Laetitia NSIONA, Trainee / Stagiaire, Tél : +33 3 90 21 56 36, e-mail :[email protected]

Jean-Pierre GEILLER, Administration and Finances / Administration et Finances, Tél : +33 3 88 41 22 27, e-mail : [email protected]

Annette SATTEL, Administration and Networks / Administration et Réseaux, Tél : +33 3 03 88 41 39 04, e-mail : [email protected]

Emily WALKER, Assistant / Assistante, Tél. : +33 3 90 21 48 39 , e-mail: [email protected]

Anna KHROMOVA, Assistant / Assistante, Tél + 03 88 41 21 68, e-mail: [email protected]

Interpreters / Interprètes

Lama AZAB

Sylvie BOUX

Radhia BEN HASSINE

Pascale MICHLIN

Michael HILL

Jan KROTKI

Mouna MRAD

Kolia ILIN

Nicolas GUITTONNEAU

Alexei MILKO


APPENDIX III

Projet de calendrier des réunions de la CEPEJ pour 2015  – Propositions du Secrétariat

Proposals from the Secretariat for the calendar of CEPEJ meetings for 2015

Bureau

29 janvier / January 2015

Paris

4 novembre / November 2015

(+ Hearing at the Committee of Ministers)

Strasbourg

GT-EVAL

19-20 février / February 2015

4-6 novembre / November 2015

Paris

Strasbourg

GT-QUAL

16-17 avril / April 2015

1-2 octobre / October 2015

Strasbourg

SATURN

17-18 mars / March 2015

Strasbourg

22 et 24 septembre / September 2015

TBC

Plénière / Plenary

17-19 juin/June  or 1-3 juillet / July 2015

Croatia (TBC)

10-11 décembre / December 2015

Strasbourg

Tribunaux référents / Network of pilot courts

23 septembre / September 2015

TBC

Correspondants nationaux / National correspondents

5 novembre / November 2015

Strasbourg

Journée européenne de la justice  / European Day of Justice

et / And

Cérémonie de remise  du Prix Balance de cristal  / Crystal Scales of Justice Prize awarding ceremony 

23 octobre / October 2015

TBC

Session de formation pour de nouveaux experts de la CEPEJ / Training session for new CEPEJ experts

30 janvier 2015

Paris