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 21th
CEPEJ plenary meeting on 20 and 21 June 2013
The CEPEJ will hold its 21st plenary meeting in
Strasbourg on 20 and 21 June 2013. This meeting will
provide an opportunity to officially launch the
2012-2014 evaluation cycle of European judicial systems,
which will lead to the publication of a new report in
September 2014. The CEPEJ should also adopt new
guidelines in the field of reforms of the judicial map.
In addition, the meeting will offer an opportunity to
report on progress made under the Joint Programmes
between the Council of Europe and the European Union
where the CEPEJ is working to reinforce the efficiency
and quality of judicial systems (Turkey, Morocco and
Tunisia, Eastern partnership countries: Republic of
Armenia, Azerbaïjan, Georgia, Republic of Moldova and
Ukraine).
Draft agenda
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 CEPEJ
experts’ visit to Tunisia from 5 to 7 June 2013
A group of CEPEJ experts visited Tunisia from 5 to 7
June 2013, in the framework of the Joint Programme with
the European Union: "Strengthening democratic reform in
the southern Neighbourhood". The group visited the
regional and cantonal courts of Zaghouan to study their
functioning, and in particular to analyse the processing
of cases and the file management system. The group of
experts pursued its activities in the CEPEJ Pilot
courts: the Regional court of Tunis (TPI) and the Court
of Cassation. They have met members of the General
Inspectorate to examine more closely the judicial data
provided by the Tunisian authorities, as well as the
Higher Institute of Magistrates. Finally a meeting took
placewith the newly appointed Minister of Justice of
Tunisia, Mr Nadhir Ben Ammou.
Programme [fr]
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 Morocco
obtains observer status to the CEPEJ
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of
Morocco, Mr Saad Dine El Otmani, submitted a request to
the Secretary General of the Council of Europe that the
Kingdom of Morocco be granted observer status to the
European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice
(CEPEJ). The Ministers’ Deputies replied favourably to
the request at their 1117th meeting, on 29 May 2013.
This request was made in the context of the
neighbourhood policy with the Mediterranean countries of
the Council of Europe in the field of justice, within
the framework of the Joint Programme with the EU on
Morocco and Tunisia. Under this programme the CEPEJ
actively co-operates with the Moroccan authorities to
evaluate the functioning of the judicial system and
provide guidance for reforms to improve its efficiency
and quality. Since 2012, Morocco is thus directly
involved in the work of the CEPEJ both on a bilateral
basis and at intergovernmental level (participation in
plenary and working group meetings of the CEPEJ). The
Kingdom of Morocco becomes the second non-member State
of the Council of Europe to obtain this status, after
Israël. Interest in the CEPEJ by non-member States is a
vote of confidence in the work of the Commission, which
strengthens its credibility and its reference position
in the debate on justice.
More information
Press review
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 The
Italian Senate publishes a study based on CEPEJ data and
guidelines
The Italian Senate’s Research Unit, within the framework
of its institutional mandate, has recently published a
set of data on the functioning of the judiciary in Italy
since the 80's. The statistics relate to the budget
allocated to the judiciary, judicial staff, and the
number of criminal and civil cases. This study includes
a comparison between Italy and other European countries.
In this context, the study draws upon the work of the
CEPEJ, and in particular that of its SATURN Centre for
judicial time management.
Link to the study [it]
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 11th CEPEJ Newsletter published
The
11th CEPEJ Newsletter, which has just been
published, looks at the impact of the publication of the
2012 edition of the CEPEJ Evaluation Report of European
judicial systems.
11th CEPEJ Newsletter
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 Practical Training for judges and lawyers for two
turkish Pilot Courts
A training session on settlement and mediation in civil
cases for selected judges and lawyers took place in
Ankara (Turkey) on May, 15 th, with the participation of
a group of CEPEJ experts. The event was an
opportunity to compare the different and similarities as
regards settlement between Turkey and the European
countries.
Programme
Picture gallery
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CEPEJ visit to Morocco and Round table on the
notification of judicial decisions
 Within
the framework of the Council of Europe/European Union
Joint Programme on “Strengthening democratic reform in
the southern Neighbourhood", a group of CEPEJ experts
went to Morocco from 15 to 19 April. The delegation
has met representatives of the Ministry of Justice and
discussed the implementation of the recommendations
formulated in the first CEPEJ evaluation report on the
Moroccan judicial system. Specific activities to improve
time management in courts and quality of justice
services in the three pilot courts of Sidi Kacem,
Casablanca and Agadir have also be agreed upon. One of
the highlights of the visit has been the round table on
the notification of judicial decisions, which took take
place in Casablanca on 17-18 April 2013. The round table
has been opened by His Excellency, the Minister of
Justice of the Kingdom of Morocco, Mustapha Ramid.
Representatives from the Ministry of Justice of Morocco,
the National College of bailiffs of Morocco, the Bar
Association and Pilot courts also assisted. The aim of
this round table was to adopt measures to optimize
notifications for the civil Court of first instance of
Casablanca, notably through the identification of
primary means of notification.
More information
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The CEPEJ launches its co-operation activities with
Tunisian pilot courts
In the framework of the Programme "Strenghtening
democratic reform in the southern neighbourhood", the
group of experts of the CEPEJ went to Tunis from 27 to
29 March 2013 in order to strengthen its evaluation of
the Tunisian judicial system and its study of the
processing of the cases brought before the courts and
the state of computerisation of the judicial entities in
the courts. The experts in particular held meetings with
members of the Court of Cassation and the First instance
Court of Tunis (TPI1) in order to decide on
the follow-up which should be given to this
co-operation.
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The CEPEJ is conducting a survey on the organisation and
access of court buildings in the Council of Europe's
member States
 The
CEPEJ's working group on quality of justice (GT-QUAL)
has drafted a questionnaire which has been sent to
member States in order to obtain information on the
different approaches used by the Courts and solutions
developed by them in their daily work to facilitate the
acess to the services by Court users and improve
the quality of the public service of justice.
Questionnaire for collecting information on the
organisation and accessibility of Court premises
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Cooperation
strengthened between the CEPEJ and Turkey
 In the framework of the joint programme “Strengthening
the Court management in Turkey” (JP COSMASYT), financed
by the European Union and implemented by the Council of
Europe, the Ministry of Justice of Turkey has made
available to justice professionals the main CEPEJ tools
translated in Turkish.
CEPEJ page of
the website of the Ministry of Justice of Turkey
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Call
for comments: good practices and implementation examples
of the SATURN guidelines on length of judicial
proceedings
 The SATURN guidelines are aimed to reduce the length of
judicial proceedings. The document below contains
examples of good practices for the implementation of
these guidelines within European courts. It will be
regularly updated to take into consideration the various
judicial practices. We invite you to communicate your
comments on the relevance of these good practices, and
to complete them, if necessary (cepej@coe.int).
Saturn guidelines for judicial time management -
Comments and implementation examples
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December
2012
