Strasbourg, 3 July 2015                                                                                                                     

CEPEJ(2015)8

européAN COMMISSION FOR THE EFFICIENCY OF Justice (CEPEJ)

25th plenary meeting (Strasbourg, 2-3 July 2015)

Abridged report

A.   FOREWORD

The European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) held its 25th plenary meeting in Strasbourg on 2-3 July 2015. The meeting was chaired by Mr Georg STAWA (Austria), President of the CEPEJ.

The agenda appears in Appendix I.

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

The CEPEJ:

  1. Information by the President of the CEPEJ, CEPEJ 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 had been presented and discussed;

 

§  expressed its support to the Tunisian delegation and, through it, to the people of Tunisia, following the attack suffered by their country;

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

§  took note of the information given by representatives of Austria, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Latvia, Malta, the Netherlands, the Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”, Turkey, Ukraine and the United Kingdom 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 website;

  1. CEPEJ co-operation programmes

§  welcomed the progress made in the on-going cooperation programmes, which allow the practical implementation of the methodology and tools of the CEPEJ and thus provide strong added value to the work of the Council of Europe in the beneficiary states, in particular:

-     in Albania, in the framework of the on-going 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 Grants for improving the quality and efficiency of the judicial system,

-     in Azerbaijan and the Republic of Moldova, as part of the new Programmatic Cooperation Framework with the European Union, following the regional programme for the Eastern Partnership countries, aimed at continuing cooperation for the efficiency and quality of judicial systems,

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

-     in Kosovo*, to improve the efficiency and quality of the service delivered by the Basic Court of Pristina, in the framework of a pilot project;

-     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;

§  regretted that the activities initially planned in Ukraine within the framework of the Joint Programme with the EU for the countries of the Eastern partnership had been cancelled at the request of the EU Delegation in Ukraine;

§  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 the amendments to the Evaluation Scheme (CEPEJ(2015)1) and its Explanatory note (CEPEJ(2015)2), completed by a specific questionnaire on Information Technologies in court (CEPEJ(2015)5) and an explanatory note (CEPEJ(2015)6), proposed by the CEPEJ-GT-EVAL and adopted through a written procedure;

 

§  reminded its members to appoint national correspondents entrusted with responding to the Evaluation Scheme and to provide their contact details to the Secretariat as soon as possible; national correspondents would be invited to discuss the data collection and consistency on 5 November 2015 and to exchange on the draft 2016 report in spring 2016;

§  took note that the electronic version of the Evaluation Scheme and the specific questionnaire on IT, including the explanatory notes, were open, to be completed by the national correspondents before 31 December 2015, and urged the national correspondents to comply with this timeframe, in order for the data to be processed from January 2016 and the report to be adopted by the CEPEJ at its 27th plenary meeting (mid 2016) ; recalled that it is topical for the analytical work to respond to all the questions, where appropriate by indicating explicitly that the data is not available (NA) or is not appropriate (NAP) in the national judicial system;

§  instructed the Secretariat, under the authority of the CEPEJ-GT-EVAL and the Bureau, to prepare, in full cooperation with the EU member states, the new Study on judicial systems to be forwarded to the European Commission at the end of 2015 as part of the preparation of the "EU Justice Scoreboard"; therefore underlined, in the framework of the preparation of this Study, for the member states of the European Union, that the responses to those questions of the Evaluation Scheme appearing in colour in the electronic document should already be submitted to the Secretariat by 1 October 2015 and urged the relevant national correspondents to comply with this timeframe;

§  instructed the CEPEJ-GT-EVAL to propose a new way of analysing and presenting the data collected, including:

-       a general report including key data and comments (key facts and figures) which make it possible to evaluate the state of judicial systems and their evolution;

-       a specific report focused for each cycle on one topical issue to be selected and containing an in-depth analysis of the situation; for 2016, this topic could be the consequences of the use of ICT on the work and the human resources of courts;

-       a dynamic data base opened to a scope of users to be defined, including a data processing system;

§  took note of the report, presented orally, of the peer evaluation visits to Lithuania (27-28 May 2015), agreed to pursue the cycle of peer evaluation visits on judicial statistics in Slovakia (September 2015) and possibly in Serbia, and invited the member states to confirm before the end of the year their willingness to organise such visits in 2016;

  1. Quality of justice

§  took note of the on-going work within the CEPEJ-GT-QUAL to prepare guidelines for the promotion of cyber-justice to improve the quality of court work, a handbook and a glossary on the enforcement of judicial decisions, as well as the on-going reflections related to the right to an effective remedy within the framework of the European Convention on Human Rights;

§  instructed the CEPEJ-GT-QUAL to pursue also its work on the definition of indicators for the quality of justice and on the issue of public access to legislation and court case-law; 

§  welcomed the draft “Handbook on access to justice in Europe” introduced by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) which strengthens the knowledge of the principles governing the exercise of this fundamental right and the relevant European case-law; agreed to follow the proposal of the CEPEJ-GT-QUAL not to be further involved in this particular project given its academic character which does not correspond to the necessary practical orientation that the CEPEJ wishes to give to its work so as to improve the service of the court users ;

  1. SATURN Centre for judicial time management

§  took note of the on-going work within the Steering Group of the SATURN Centre, especially to define targets for judicial timeframes and the subsequent collection of definitions of the key terms of the CEPEJ for judicial time management;

§  adopted the updated version of the “Study on Council of Europe Member States Appeal and Supreme Courts’ Lengths of Proceedings - Edition 2015 (2006-2012 data)” (CEPEJ(2015)7), prepared by Marco Velicogna (Italy), scientific expert, subject to possible data changes that would be made by its members before 31 August 2015, and decided to forward it to the Committee of Ministers so that it may take note of it, as well as to the relevant Committees and bodies of the Council of Europe so that they can make use of it when appropriate;

§  took note that a court coaching programme for judicial time management was being implemented with the administrative court of Thessaloniki, Greece, and that court coaching programmes could be implemented with several courts in France; 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) and the European Committee for Legal Cooperation (CDCJ), and confirmed its availability to pursue cooperation with them within the framework of their work;

 

  1. Information regarding the European Union

§  took note of the information provided by the representatives of Latvia, speaking on behalf of the outgoing presidency 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

§  invited its members to forward to the Secretariat all information on the celebration of the European Day of Justice in October 2015;

 

§  invited its members to promote the candidature of courts or other judicial bodies to participate in the European Prize: “the Crystal Scales of Justice” before 6 July 2015, bearing in mind that the award ceremony would take place in October, within the framework of the European Day of Justice, possibly in Bosnia and Herzegovina;

  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 Societies (CCBE), the European Union of Rechtspfleger (EUR) ; thanked them for 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

§  recalled that, according to its Rules of procedure revised following the last CEPEJ plenary meeting, and in order 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, each member state is entitled to appoint a substitute member to the CEPEJ; therefore invited its members to indicate to the Secretariat as soon as possible the name and contact details of this substitute member;

§  warmly thanked the experts who had agreed to follow a training session in February on the methodology and tools of the CEPEJ in order to prepare their participation in cooperation activities and in this way help the CEPEJ with the growing demand for experts in the framework of the implementation of programmes; decided to renew this training session on 15 September 2015 and, therefore, called on its members to appoint experts wishing to participate in the cooperation  work of the CEPEJ, if possible before 15 August 2015, and instructed the Secretariat to organise this training session;

*: All reference to Kosovo, whether to the territory, institutions or population, in this text shall be understood in full compliance with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 and without prejudice to the status of Kosovo.


APPENDIX I

AGENDA

  1. Opening of the meting
  2. Adoption of the agenda          
  3. Information by the President of the CEPEJ and the Secretariat
  4. Recent developments in the judicial field in the Council of Europe Member states
  5. CEPEJ’s cooperation programmes

              i.        Programme financed by the Norway Grant: Improving the quality and efficiency of the judiciary system through the development of infrastructures and a better management within the state of Croatia

Rapporteur: Ms Mirna MINAUF (Croatia)

             ii.        Joint programme  “Support to the efficiency of justice (SEJ)” with the European Union for Albania

Rapporteur: Jacques BÜHLER (Suisse)

            iii.        Joint programme with the European Union for the efficiency of justice in Azerbaijan, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine

Rapporteur: secretariat

            iv.        Program “Developing mediation practices in civil disputes in Turkey”, financed by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)

Rapporteur: secretariat

             v.        Neighbouring policy: Joint Programme with the European Union for Morocco, Tunisia and Jordan

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

            vi.        Perspectives for other cooperations

§  Kosovo*

  1. Evaluation of European judicial systems

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

i.       Implementation of the 2014 - 2016 evaluation cycle 

§  Planning of the work and of the schedule

§  New system of data collection and treatment

§  Issue of the repeated absence of specific data

§  Synthesis of the key data regarding specific countries

Rapporteur: Frans VAN DER DOELEN (Netherlands)

§  Specific questionnaire regarding new technologies

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

iii.     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.        Promotion of cyber-justice to improve the quality of Court work

             ii.        Execution of judicial decisions: draft guide of good practice related to the guidelines for a better implementation of the Coe Recommendations on the enforcement of judicial decisions prepared by Mr. Guillaume Payan (France), scientific expert

            iii.        The right to an effective remedy within the framework of the European Convention on Human Rights and prospects for CEPEJ involvement.

            iv.        Cooperation with the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights on the ‘Handbook on the access of justice in Europe’

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

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

§  Collection CEPEJ’s key terms definitions

§  Updating the study on the length of procedures in appeal jurisdictions (Velicogna Report)

§  Coaching programmes on SATURN tools

  1. 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 on Legal Co-operation (CDCJ)

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

Rapporteur: Aija BRANTA (Latvia) in the name of the departing presidency of the European Union

  1. European Day of Justice and the ‘Crystal Scales of Justice’

Rapporteur: Secretariat

  1. Observers to the CEPEJ
  2. Working methods of the CEPEJ: how to have and train more CEPEJ experts to participate to cooperation activities?

               i.        CEPEJ experts training

              ii.        CEPEJ Deputy members

  1. Other


APPENDIX II

6 July / juillet 2015

List of participants / Liste des participants

CEPEJ MEMBERS / MEMBRES DE LA CEPEJ

ALBANIA/ALBANIE

Tomor KAPLLANI, Directeur, Ministère de la Justice, TIRANA

Rovena HUSA, Chief of the courts archive, Ministry of Justice, TIRANA

ANDORRA/ANDORRE : Apologised /Excusé

ARMENIA/ARMENIE

Marsel ABRAHAMYAN, Head of Division on Civil and Economic Cases, Department on Relations with the European Court of Human Rights, Ministry of Justice, YEREVAN

AUSTRIA/AUTRICHE

Georg STAWA, Head of Department Pr 8, Projects, Strategy and Innovation, Federal Ministry of 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 (Member of the Bureau and the CEPEJ-GT-EVAL/Membre du Bureau et du CEPEJ-GT-EVAL)

BELGIUM/BELGIQUE 

Dietger GEERAERT, Attaché, Service Public Fédéral de la 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 (Apologised/Excusé)

Mirna MINAUF, Ministry of Justice, EU and International Co-operation Directorate, Service for European Union, 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 (Member of the Bureau of the CEPEJ/Membre du Bureau de la CEPEJ)

 

DENMARK/DANEMARK

Marianne GRAM NYBROE, International Coordinator, Department of Training Danish Court Administration, COPENHAGEN

Klaus RUGAARD, Head of Finance and Analysis, Court Administration, 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, Ministère de la Justice, PARIS

GEORGIA/GÉORGIE

Irakli ADEISHVILI, Judge, Chamber of Civil Cases, Tbilisi Appeals Court, TBILISI(Vice-President of the CEPEJ/Vice-Président de la CEPEJ)

GERMANY / ALLEMAGNE

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

Anna-Lena LUX, Legal Adviser, European and Science Law, Justizministerium Baden-Württemberg, STUTTGART

GREECE/GRÈCE

Mihalis PIKRAMENOS, Ministère de la Justice, Transparency and Human Rights, ATHENES (Apologised / Excusé)  

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, District Court of Reykjavik, REYKJAVÍK

IRELAND/IRLANDE

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

Yvonne WALSH, Courts Policy Division, Department of Justice and Equality, DUBLIN

ITALY/ITALIE

Fabio BARTOLOMEO, Directeur général des statistiques, 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 

Laurent THYES, Attaché de Gouvernement, Ministère de la justice, Luxembourg (Apologised/Excusé)

Clara SCHALCK, Stagiaire, Représentation permanente du Grand Duché de Luxembourg auprès du Conseil de l’Europe, Strasbourg

Anne KLENSCH, Stagiaire, Représentation permanente du Grand Duché de Luxembourg auprès du Conseil de l’Europe, Strasbourg

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 of the Republic of Moldova, CHISINAU

NETHERLANDS/PAYS‑BAS

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

NORWAY/NORVÈGE

Frank Egil HOLM, Senior Adviser, Department of Finance and Property Management, Norwegian Courts Administration, TRONDHEIM

POLAND/POLOGNE

Michał DĄBROWSKI, 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 de la Roumanie, BUCAREST

THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION/FÉDÉRATION DE RUSSIE

Alexandra DRONOVA, Director of the Department of International Law and Cooperation of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, MOSCOW

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

Anastasia MOSKALENKO, Acting Head of the Division of International Legal Cooperation of The Judicial Department of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, MOSCOW;

Aleksandra KRIVOSHEEVA, Consultant, Department of International Law and Cooperation, Ministry of Justice, MOSCOW

SERBIA/SERBIE

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

NINČIĆ, National Correspondent to the CEPEJ, Ministry of Justice, BELGRADE

SLOVAK REPUBLIC/RÉPUBLIQUE SLOVAQUE

Ladislav DUDITS, Judge, Kosice Regional Court, Krajsky sud v Kosiciach, KOSICE

SLOVENIA /SLOVENIE

Marko ŠORLI, Head of Criminal Division, Supreme Court, LJUBLJANA

SPAIN/ESPAGNE

Antonio Gutiérrez Cardenete, Court Manager Counselor, Directorate General of International Legal Cooperation and Religious Affairs, Ministry of Justice, MADRID

SWEDEN/SUÈDE

Jenny LINDESTAM, Legal Advisor, Legal Department, The Swedish National Courts Administration, JÖNKÔPING

Maltin ALBERTSSON, Legal Advisor, The Swedish National Courts Administration, JÖNKÔPING

SWITZERLAND/SUISSE

Jacques BÜHLER, Secrétaire Général suppléant, Tribunal fédéral suisse, LAUSANNE (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 Ministry of Justice, ANKARA

Elif ÖZALP, Judge, Strategy Development Department, Minsitry of Justice, ANKARA

UKRAINE

Igor SAMSIN, President of the International Department of the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine, Ministry of Justice, KYIV

Polina KAZAKEVICH, Head of the International Department of the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine, KYIV

UNITED KINGDOM/ROYAUME‑UNI

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, FRANCE (Chair of the GT-EVAL / Président du GT-EVAL)

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

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OBSERVER STATES TO THE CEPEJ / ÉTATS OBSERVATEURSAUPRES DE LA CEPEJ

ISRAEL / ISRAËL

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

Inbal GALON, Researcher at the Courts Research Division, Supreme Court of Israel, JERUSALEM

MEXICO/ MEXIQUE

Jorge Antonio CRUZ RAMOS, Magistrat du Conseil Fédéral de la Magistrature, MEXICO

Santiago OÑATE LABORDE, Observateur Permanent du Mexique auprès du Conseil de l’Europe, Mission Permanente du Mexique auprès du Conseil de l'Europe, STRASBOURG

MOROCCO / MAROC

Abderrafie EROUIHANE, Directeur des Ressources Humaines, Ministère de la Justice, RABAT

Mustapha SIMOU, Président du Tribunal Administratif de Rabat

Abdelmati EL KADDOURI, Président du Tribunal Administratiif of Agadir,

Boutaina BENAMOUR, Juge détachée au Secrétariat général et responsable de la coopération, Ministère de la Justice, RABAT

TUNISIA / TUNISIE

Sana BHAR, chargée de mission au Cabinet du Ministre de la Justice, Direction de la coopération internationale, TUNIS

Mongi CHALGHOUM, Président du Tribunal de première instance de Zaghouan

Fethi MEJRI, Procureur de la République près le tribunal de première instance de Nabeul

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OBSERVERS / OBSERVATEURS

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

Maria ŚLAZAK, Président

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

Christophe REGNARD, Président de m association européenne des magistrats, Premier vice-président de l’Union internationale des magistrats, PARIS

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

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

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

Françoise ANDRIEUX, Présidente, PARIS    

Mathieu CHARDON, Huissier de justice, Premier secrétaire, MONFORT L’AMAURY

EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGES (EFAJ) / FÉDÉRATION EUROPÉENNE DES JUGES ADMINISTRATIFS (FEJA)

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

european judicial training network (EJTN) / RÉseau EuropÉen de Formation Judiciaire (REFJ)

Benoît CHAMOUARD, BRUXELLES

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

Edmond GRESSER, Notaire, LA WANTZENAU, FRANCE

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EUROPEAN UNION / UNION EUROPÉENNE

european CommisSion / Commission européenne

Elsa GARCÍA-MALTRÁS, DG JUSTICE, Unit 03 General justice policies and judicial systems,
BRUSSELS

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

Jana GAJDOSOVA, Programme Manager, Legal Research, Freedoms and Justice Department, VIENNA


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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)

Stéphane LEYENBERGER, Secretary of the CCJE / Secrétaire du CCJE

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

Muriel DECOT, Secretary of the CCPE / 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

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

STEERING OMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS / COMITE DIRECTEUR POUR LES DROITS DE L’HOMME (CDDH), Apologised / Excusé

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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

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

Stéphane LEYENBERGER, Secretary of the CEPEJ / Secrétaire de la CEPEJ

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

Clementina BARBARO, Administrator / Administratrice

Christel SCHURRER, Administrator/Administratrice

Lidija NAUMOVSKA, Statistician Administrator /Administratrice statisticienne

Yannick MENECEUR, Special Advisor to the Secretariat of the CEPEJ / Conseiller spécial auprès du Secrétariat de la CEPEJ

Jean-Pierre GEILLER, Documentation, Administration and Finances / Documentation, Administration et Finances

Annette SATTEL, Administration and Networks / Administration et Réseaux

Elisabeth HEURTEBISE, Assistant/Assistante

Emily WALKER, Assistant/Assistante

CEPEJ Cooperation programmes / Programmes de coopération de la CEPEJ

Muriel ISELI, Administrator / Administratrice

Sophio GELASHVILI, Administrator/Administratrice

Leonid ANTOHI, Administrator /Administrateur

Micol EMINENTE, Administrator /Administratrice

Tea JALIASHVILI, Project Manager, EU/CoE Support to Efficiency of Justice – SEJ Project,  Council of Europe Office in Tirana / Responsable de projet, Projet conjoint de soutien de l'UE/CdE pour l’efficacité de la Justice – SEJ, Bureau du Conseil de l’Europe à Tirana

Paul MEYER, Project Manager, Norway Grants Project, Partnership between Croatia and CEPEJ, Secretariat of the CEPEJ / Gestionnaire de Projet, Norway Grants Project, Partenariat entre la Croatie et la CEPEJ, Secrétariat de la CEPEJ

TRAINEES / STAGIAIRES

Amandine KIMMEL

Justine FISCHBACH

INTERPRETERS / INTERPRÈTES

Corinne McGEORGE

Sylvie BOUX

Nicolas GUITTONNEAU