CCPE(2010)4

Yerevan, 21 October 2010

CONSULTATIVE COUNCIL OF EUROPEAN PROSECUTORS (CCPE)

Abridged report of the 5th meeting (Yerevan, Armenia, 19 - 21 October 2010)

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A.  FOREWORD

1.    The Consultative Council of European Prosecutors (CCPE) met in Yerevan, on the invitation of the Prosecutor General of Armenia, from 19 to 21 October 2010, under the Chairmanship of Mr Olivier de BAYNAST (France). The CCPE thanked the Armenian authorities, and in particular Mr Aghvan HOVSEPYAN, Prosecutor General, for the excellent welcome which the CCPE received as well as the quality of the organisation of the meeting. 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 to:

a.         take note of the Opinion N°5 (2010) on "Public prosecution and juvenile justice", also called the Yerevan Declaration;

and to transmit this document to the competent authorities in the member states and, where appropriate, having it translated into the corresponding languages and forwarding this Opinion to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe;

b.         take note of the present report as a whole.

C.  ITEMS SUBMITTED TO THE COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS FOR INFORMATION

The CCPE:

3.    entrusted its Secretariatto forward the Opinion N°5 (2010) on "Public prosecution and juvenile justice" to the European Committee on Crime Problems (CDPC) so that it can be given the opportunity to comment on it;

4.    invited its members to forward to the Secretariat written information on recent domestic developments regarding the prosecution service, which could be included in the area "country profiles" of its web site;

5.    adopted the draft terms of reference of the CCPE for 2011, took note of the new adoption procedure of these terms of reference by the Committee of Ministers and expressed the wish that in the future, it would be possible to prepare, as in the past, terms of reference for two years, for a better organisation and planification of the work of the Council which has only one annual plenary meeting;

6.    examine, with a view to the preparation of the Opinion No.6 (2011) of the CCPE and subject to the adoption of the terms of reference of the CCPE by the Committee of Ministers, a draft questionnaire on the relationship between prosecutors and prison administration, in particular in the light of the Recommendation Rec(2006) on the European prison rules, entrusted Mr Peter POLT (Hungary), who prepared the first draft, to modify it in the light of the discussions held during this meeting and keeping in mind that in some States, prosecutors are not competent in the field of prisons, entrusted then the Secretariat to send it to all member states by mid December 2010, in order to be answered before the end of January 2011;

7.    appointed Nelly HARUTIUNYAN (Armenia), Josip CULE (Croatia), Alessandra GIRALDI (Denmark), Olivier de BAYNAST (France), Peter POLT (Hungary), Harald RANGE (Germany), Arend VAST (the Netherlands), Antonio VERCHER NOGUERA (Spain) and Alexander ZVYAGINTSEV and Vladimir ZIMIN (Russian Federation) as members of the CCPE-GT, and Jana ZEZULOVA (Czech Republic) and Ahmet TASYURT (Turkey) as deputy members;

8.    instructed the CCPE-GT, subject to the adoption of the terms of reference of the CCPE by the Committee of Ministers, to prepare a draft Opinion on "the relationship between prosecutors and prison administration, in particular in the light of the Recommendation Rec(2006)2 on the European prison rules”, to be submitted to the 6th plenary meeting of the CCPE;

9.    invited its members to continue the organisation of national events in order to promote the implementation of Recommendation Rec(2000)19 on the role of public prosecution in the criminal justice system for the tenth anniversary of this instrument and to inform the Secretariat as soon as possible so that this event can be supported by the CCPE according to appropriate modalities; to use this momentum to organise, where appropriate, the translation of this Recommendation into non official languages of the Council of Europe (it has already been translated into 14 non official languages);

10. elected Mr Joao Manuel da SILVA MIGUEL (Portugal) Chair and Mr Antonio MURA (Italy) Vice-Chair of the CCPE for 2011, re-elected Ms Raija TOIVIAINEN (Finland) member of the Bureau for a two year period and elected Mr Cédric VISART DE BOCARME (Belgium) member of the Bureau for 2011, in replacement of Mr Antonio MURA;

11. congratulated and thanked Mr Olivier de BAYNAST (France) for the excellent quality of the work done during his term of office as President of the CCPE;

1.     thanked the Italian High Judicial Council (Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura) for its invitation to hold the 9th meeting of the CCPE-GT in the framework of a Conference organised at the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Recommendation Rec(2000)19 which will take place in Rome on 4 and 5th July 2011;

2.    proposed to hold its 6th plenary meeting on 24 and 25 November 2011 and the meetings of the working party (CCPE-GT) on 17 and 18 March and on 4 and 5 July 2011.


APPENDIX I

AGENDA

1.            Opening of the meeting

-          Mr Aghvan HOVSEPYAN, Prosecutor General of Armenia

-          Mr Olivier de BAYNAST (France), Chair of the CCPE

-          Mrs Muriel DECOT, Secretary of the CCPE, Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs, Council of Europe

2.            Adoption of the agenda 

3.            Information by the President, Bureau members and the Secretariat 

4.            Discussion with a view to its adoption of the CCPE Draft Opinion No.5 on “the role of public prosecution in juvenile justice”

5.            Adoption of the draft terms of reference for the CCPE for 2011

6.            Preparation of the CCPE’s Opinion for 2011 concerning the role of prosecutors in enforcement of European Prison Rules of the Council of Europe (subject to the adoption of the CCPE’s terms of reference by the Committee of Ministers)

7.            Election of the President and Vice-President

8.            Election of one member of the Bureau

9.            Election of the members of the CCPE-GT for 2011

10.          Celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Recommendation 2000(19) and studying the impact regarding the implementation of the Recommendation in the member States 

11.          Relations between the CCPE and other bodies outside and inside the Council of Europe

12.          Any other business

13.          Futur meetings of the CCPE


APPENDIX II

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

MEMBERS

ALBANIA/ALBANIE :

Artur SELMANI Prosecutor, Director of Judiciary Matters in General Prosecutor Office, TIRANA

ANDORRA/ANDORRE :

Robert AMPUY, Procureur Général, ANDORRA (Apologised / Excusé)

ARMENIA/ARMENIE :

Mr Aghvan HOVSEPYAN, General Prosecutor, Office of the Prosecutor General, YEREVAN

Mr Mnatsakan SARGSYAN, Office of the Prosecutor General, YEREVAN

Ms Nelly HARUTYUNYAN, Head of Department, Office of the Prosecutor General,

AUSTRIA / AUTRICHE

Prof. Dr. Ernst Eugen FABRIZY, Erster Generalanwalt, Generalprokuratur, VIENNA

AZERBAIJAN / AZERBAΪDJAN

BELGIUM / BELGIQUE

M. Cedric VISART de BOCARME, Procureur Général de Liège, Palais de Justice, LIÈGE

BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA / BOSNIE-HERZEGOVINE

BULGARIA / BULGARIE

Mr Sava PETROV, Prosecutor, Court of Cassation, Office of the Prosecutor General, SOFIA

CROATIA / CROATIE

Mr Josip CULE, Deputy Attorney General, Head of International Legal Assistance and Cooperation Department, ZAGREB

Mr Dragan NOVOSEL, Deputy Attorney General of the Republic of Croatia, ZAGREB

CYPRUS/ CHYPRE

Ms Despina KYPRIANOU, Special Adviser to the Attorney General, Law office of the Republic of Cyprus, NICOSIA (Apologised / Excusé)

CZECH REPUBLIC/ REPUBLIQUE TCHEQUE

Ms Jana ZEZULOVA, Public Prosecutor, Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office, Analytic and Legislative Department, BRNO

DENMARK / DANEMARK

Ms Alessandra GIRALDI, Deputy Chief Prosecutor, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, COPENHAGEN

ESTONIA/ ESTONIE

Ms. Dilaila NAHKUR-TAMMIKSAAR, Chief State Prosecutor, Office of the Prosecutor General, TALLINN (Apologised / Excusé)

FINLAND / FINLANDE

Ms Raija TOIVIAINEN, State Prosecutor, Head of the International Unit, HELSINKI

FRANCE

M. Olivier de BAYNAST, Chairman / PrésidentCCPE, Procureur Général auprès de la Cour d’Appel d’Amiens, AMIENS

GEORGIA / GEORGIE

M. Irakli DONDOLADZÉ, Procureur du Service des Relations Internationales, Parquet Principal de la Géorgie, Ministère de la Justice de la Géorgie, TBILISSI

GERMANY / ALLEMAGNE

Mr Harald RANGE, Prosecutor General, Prosecutor General’s Office, CELLE

GREECE / GRECE

Mr. Roussos - Emmanouil PAPADAKIS, Vice-Public Prosecutor, Public Prosecutor’s Office, Supreme Court, ATHENS

HUNGARY/ HONGRIE

Mr Peter POLT, Chief Prosecutor, Head of Criminal Trial Cases, Office of the Prosecutor BUDAPEST

ICELAND / ISLANDE

Mr Kolbrun SAEVARSDOTTIR, Prosecutor, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, REYKJVIK (Apologised / Excusé)

IRELAND / IRLANDE

Mr Peter McCORMICK, Prosecutor, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutors, DUBLIN

ITALY / ITALIE

Mr Antonio MURA, Deputy Prosecutor General of the Italian Supreme Court, Prosecutor General’s Office, International Relations, ROME

LATVIA / LETTONIE

Ms Rudite ABOLINA, Head Prosecutor of the Department of Analysis and Management, Deputy Prosecutor General, Prosecutor’s General Office, RIGA

Ms Una BRENČA, Head Prosecutor of International Cooperation Division, Prosecutor’s General Office, RIGA

LIECHTENSTEIN

Dr. WALLNER, Prosecutor General, Office of the Public Prosecutor, VADUZ (Apologised / Excusé)

LITHUANIA / LITUANIE

Mr. Darius VALYS, Chief Prosecutor General, VILNIUS

LUXEMBOURG

M. Jean BOUR, Procureur d’Etat à Diekirch, DIEKIRCH

MALTA / MALTE

MOLDOVA / MOLDOVIE

Mr Valeriu ZUBCO, Prosecutor General of the Republic of Moldova, CHISINAU (Apologised / Excusé)

MONACO     

M. Jacques RAYBAUD, Procureur Général, Palais de Justice, MONACO

MONTENEGRO

Mr  Veselin VUČKOVIĆ, Deputy Supreme State Prosecutor, PODGORICA

Ms Ana BOSKOVIC, Assistant for International Cooperation, Supreme State Prosecutor's Office, PODGORICA

NETHERLANDS / PAYS‑BAS

Mr Arend B. VAST, National Member for the Netherlands, Chief Public Prosecutor, THE HAGUE

NORWAY / NORVEGE

Mr Runar TORGERSEN, Senior Public Prosecutor, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, OSLO

Ms Tone AASE, Public Prosecutor, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, OSLO

POLAND / POLOGNE

Ms Anna WDOWIARZ – PELC, Department of International Cooperation, General Prosecutor's Office, WARSAW (Apologised / Excusé)

PORTUGAL

Mr João Manuel DA SILVA MIGUEL, Vice-Chairman/Vice-Président CCPE,

Membre National, EUROJUST, THE HAGUE

ROMANIA / ROUMANIE

Ms Antonia CONSTANTIN, Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the Judiciary Section, Prosecutor’s office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice, BUCHAREST

RUSSIAN FEDERATION / FEDERATION DE RUSSIE

Mr Alexander ZVYAGINTSEV, Deputy Prosecutor General, Office of the Prosecutor MOSCOW

Mr Vladimir P. ZIMIN, First Deputy Chief, General Department of International Legal Cooperation, Office of the Prosecutor General, MOSCOW

SERBIA / SERBIE

Mr Djordje OSTOJIC, Deputy Prosecutor General, Office of the Prosecutor General, BELGRADE

SLOVAKIA / SLOVAQUIE

Ms Katarína LAIFEROVA, Head of the Office of the Prosecutor General, Generálna prokuratúra Slovenskej republiky, BRATISLAVA

SLOVENIA / SLOVENIE

Mr Mirko VRTAČNIK, Supreme State Prosecutor Councillor, Deputy State Prosecutor General, LJUBLJANA

SPAIN / ESPAGNE

Mr Antonio VERCHER NOGUERA, Deputy Attorney General for environmental matters, MADRID

SWEDEN / SUEDE

Ms Ola LÖFGREN, Chief Public Prosecutor, , International Unit, Office of the Prosecutor General, STOCKHOLM

SWITZERLAND / SUISSE

"THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA" / "L'EX-REPUBLIQUE YOUGOSLAVE DE MACEDOINE "

TURKEY / TURQUIE

Mr Ahmet TASYURT, Public Prosecutor, Court of Cassation, ANKARA

Mr. Ömer YANAR, Public Prosecutor, Court of Cassation, ANKARA

UKRAINE / UKRAINE

UNITED KINGDOM / ROYAUME-UNI

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OBSERVERS

EUROPEAN JUDICIAL NETWORK(EJN)

Ms Fatima Adelia PIRES MARTINS, Secretary General, EJN, THE HAGUE

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COUNCIL OF EUROPE’S SECRETARIAT

(CCPE E-mail : [email protected])

Fax: +33 (0)3 90 21 56 48,

Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs / Justice Division

Direction Générale des droits de l’Homme et des affaires juridiques / Division de la Justice

Mme Muriel DECOT, Secretary to the CCPE / Secrétaire du CCPE

Tel : + 33 (0)3 90 21 44 55, E-mail : [email protected]

Emily WALKER, Assistant / Assistante

Tel. +33 (0)3 90 21 48 39, E-mail: [email protected]