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Consultative Council of European Prosecutors (CCPE)
 Recognising
the essential role of the public prosecutor in the criminal
justice system into a State of Law, the
Committee of Ministers decided in July 2005 to institutionalise
the CPGE through the creation of the Consultative Council of
European Prosecutors (CCPE).
This consultative body to the Committee of Ministers has in
particular the task to prepare opinions for the European Committee
on Crime problems (CDPC) on difficulties concerning the
implementation of
Recommendation Rec(2000)19, to promote the
implementation of this recommendation, and to collect
information about the functioning of prosecution services in
Europe.
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 Draft
structure of the opinion on the Principles of public
action in the field of justice for juvenils
The Bureau and the Working group of the CCPE entrusted
with the preparation of the draft opinion on the
Principles of public action in the field of justice for
juvenils (Opinion No. 5) held their meeting in
Strasbourg, from 24 to 26 February 2010. The working
group prepared the draft structure of the opinion and
approved the dsitribution of tasks for the drafting of
the document.
Meeting report of the Bureau (in French - translation to
English underway)
Draft structure of Opinion No. 5
Special file - Drafting of Opinion No. 5
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 Preparatin
of the CCPE’s 5th Opnion
For 2010,
the Committee of Ministers missioned the CCPE to write
an opinion on the principles of public prosecution as
regards juvenile justice, in the light of the Resolution
adopted on the 28th Conference of European Ministers of
Justice (Lanzarote, October 2007). The working group of
the CCPE, missioned to prepare the draft opinion, held
its meeting in Strasbourg from 24 to 26 February 2010.
Agenda
Preliminary works
Terms of reference of the Consultative Council of
European Prosecutors (CCPE) for 2009-2010
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Agenda of the CCPE Bureau meeting
The Bureau
of the CCPE will meet in Strasbourg, from 24 to 26
February 2010 in view to define its working methods, in
the light of its terms of reference. The Bureau in
particular discussed the modalities for drawing up Opinion
No. 5 on the Principles of public action in the field of
justice for juvenils. The Bureau of the CCPE also
draw up a balance sheet after 10 years, concerning
implementation of Recommandation (2000)19 on the Role of Public Prosecution in the
Criminal Justice System.
Agenda of the CCPE-BU meeting
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 10
years of the CCPE – call for events
In the
framework of the celebration of the 10th
Anniversary of
Recommendation Rec(2000)19 on the Role of Public
Prosecution in the criminal justice system, the implementation of which the CCPE has been mandated to
promote, the CCPE members are invited to transmit to the
Secretariat all information concerning possible
national events they may organise on this occasion.
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 Judges
and prosecutors in a democratic society
On 20
January 2010, the Committee of Ministers took note of
the
Opinion jointly adopted by the CCPE and the CCJE on
relations between judges and prosecutors, adopted in
Slovenia on 20 November 2009. This opinion will be
transmitted to the Parliamentary Assembly and to the
concerned Council of Europe Committees, as well as to
the competent authorities in the members States. At the
same meeting, the Ministers' Deputies proceeded to the
hearing of the President of the CCPE, M. Olivier De
Baynast (France).
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Relations between Judges and Prosecutors
Following the plenary meeting in Slovenia from 18 to 20
November 2009, and after small formal modifications, the
final version of Opinion No. 4 on relations between
prosecutors and judges, jointly worked out by CCJE
and CCPE is available. The Opinion will in principle be
submitted to the Committe of Ministers at their meeting
on 20 January 2010.
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 Impartiality
central to Council of Europe opinion on relations
between judges and prosecutors
The Consultative Council of European Judges (CCJE) and
the Consultative Council of European Prosecutors (CCPE)
of the Council of Europe adopted on 20 November an
opinion on relations between judges and prosecutors. The
Council of Europe recalled that the development
throughout Europe of an independent, effective and good-quality
justice system, without which rule of law could not
exist, was central to its policies in the sphere of
justice (more).
Abridged meeting report
Opinion on the relations between Judges and Prosecutors
Speech by Mr
Aleš Zalar,
Minister of Justice of Slovenia
Speech by Mr Philippe Boillat, Director General of Human
Rigths and Legal Affairs, Council of Europe (in
French)
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4th Plenary meeting of the CCPE
The
4th Plenary meeting of the Consultative Council of
European Prosecutors (CCPE) took place from 18 to 20
November 2009 in Ljubljana, at
Brdo Congress
Centre (Slovenia) under the Slovenian Chairmanship at the
Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe and at
the invitation of Mr Aleš Zalar, Minister of justice of
Slovenia. This event took place at the same time as
the Plenary meeting of the Consultative Council of
European Judges (CCJE). The two Councils adopted a joint opinion on the relationships between judges and prosecutors. The text,
which was jointly drafted by the CCPE and the CCJE
Working Parties at their meeting in Bordeaux, in July
2009, contains a Declaration called the "Bordeaux
Declaration" accompanied by an Explanatory Note.
Meeting report
Timetable and
Social programme
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5th
meeting of the CCPE-GT and of the Bureau
The 5th meeting of the CCPE Working Group
took place in Strasbourg from 29 to 30 September.
The members had a series of themes to discuss
among which the joint Opinion No.4 of the CCPE and the
CCJE on the “Relations between judges and prosecutors”
and the work programme of the CCPE for 2010. At the request of the Lisbon Network of judicial training
institutions of the Council of Europe, the CCPE-GT will
discuss the concept paper related to the
institutionalisation of cybercrime training for judges
and prosecutors prepared in co-operation with the
Project on Cybercrime. The 11th meeting of the Bureau
took place at the same time and was the
opportunity to discuss the state of preparation of the
4th plenary meeting of the CCPE .
Meeting report
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European Conference of Judges and Prosecutors
Organised by the CCPE and the the CCJE in co-operation with the "Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature" (ENM), the European Conference of Judges and Prosecutors
met in Bordeaux (France) from 30 June to 1 July 2009 on the theme "Exercise of the missions of judges and prosecutors : complementarity and/or autonomy".
The results of this Conference will be used as a basis of preparatory works for the 2009 opinion to be adopted by the CCJE and the CCPE on the same topic.
Special file
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