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 Recommendation(2000)19
of the Council of Europe highlighted by the EU General
Prosecutors’ Network in relation to the future European
Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) The CCPE’s
President Antonio Mura (Italy) was one of the speakers
at the 6th meeting of the "Network of Public Prosecutors
or equivalent institutions within the Supreme Judicial
Courts of the member States of the European Union". Ms
Raija Toivianen (Finland), Vice-president of the CCPE,
and Ms Alessandra Giraldi (Denmark), member of the
CCPE’s Bureau, also attended the meeting, which was held
in Krakow (Poland) on 15-17 May 2013 on the theme of
“Synergies and responses: challenges to the integration
of the future European Public Prosecutor’s Office into
the national laws of the member States of the E.U”. Mr
Mura gave a presentation on “Prerequisites for the
integration of the future European Public Prosecutor’s
Office”.
Recommendation Rec(2000)19 on “the role of public
prosecution in the criminal justice system” is quoted in
the final document approved by the Network with
reference to the future EPPO.
Conclusions
Presentation made by the President of the CCPE
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CCPE working group and Bureau meetings The CCPE
Working group entrusted with the preparation of Opinion
No. 8 on relations between prosecutors and the media
will hold its meeting in Strasbourg on 27 and 28 June 2013. The Bureau
will hold its meeting on 26 June 2013.
Draft genda of the working group meeting
Draft agenda of the Bureau meeting
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 Participation of the CCJE and CCPE in the course for
Italian magistrates on "The European Statute for judges
and prosecutors" On 1 January 2013, the newly
established School for the Judiciary started to operate
in Italy. This allowed the country to comply with the
Opinions No. 4 and 10 of the CCJE which recommended such
an institution. The School is competent for both initial
and in-service training of judges and prosecutors. Among
the 76 courses offered by the School on a yearly basis,
the course of 23 and 24 May 2013 which took place in
Florence (Italy), devoted to the topic "The European
Statute for judges and prosecutors" focusing on the
Council of Europe instruments defining such statute, and
on the activities of the CCJE and the CCPE. Judges and
prosecutors from Italy, Spain and Bulgaria participated.
Among speakers, there were Raffaele Sabato, former
President of the CCJE, Antonio Mura, President of the
CCPE, Roberto Chenal from the Secretariat of the Council
of Europe, Nina Betetto, Vice-President of the Supreme
Court of Slovenia and member of the Bureau of the CCJE,
Olivier de Baynast de Septfontaines, Prosecutor General
at the Court of Appeal of Douai (France) and former
President of the CCPE. The past President and the
Prosecutor General of the Italian Court of Cassation
were also present.
Programme of the training session on "The European
Statute for judges and prosecutors"
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 Symposium:
The independence of justice in Tunisia before the
adotpion of the new Constitution In the
framework of the joint programme between the European
Union and the Council of Europe "Strengthening
democratic reform in the Southern Neighbourhood", Cédric
Visart de Bocarmé, Federal Judge and the Belgian
"parquet général" in charge of international relations,
CCPE member, has made an intervention on the subject
"the guaranties of independance for prosecutors", on 13
& 14 March 2013 in Tunis.
Programme
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 The
questionnaire in view of preparation of CCPE Opinion No.
8 on relations between prosecutors and the media has
been sent to member States The Committee of Ministers
entrusted the CCPE with the adoption, in 2013, of an
opinion on relations between prosecutors and the media.
A questionnaire in view of the preparation of the
opinion has been sent to CCPE members who have until 28
February 2013 to reply. T
Questionnaire in view of preparation of Opinion No. 8 on
relations between prosecutors and the media
Preliminary work - Opinion No. 8 on relations between
prosecutors and the media
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CCPE President Antonio Mura participated in the
workshop on external relations and quality service for
Chief Prosecutors of Turkish pilot courts in Ankara
(Turkey), on 20 and 21 February 2013 In the framework
of the Programme "Strengthening the Court Management in
Turkey" (Joint Programme with the European Union), the
CCPE President Antonio Mura participated to the
workshop and make an intervention on external relations
of prosecutors in the light of CCPE opinions.
Programme
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 The
Presidents of the CCPE, the CCJE and CEPEJ invited by
the Turkish High Council of Judges and Prosecutors A
delegation composed of Presidents of the Consultative
Council of European Prosecutors (CCPE) and European
Judges (CCJE) and of the European Commission for the
Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ), as well as
representatives of the Secretariat of the Council of
Europe, has been invited by the Turkish High Council of
Judges and Prosecutors to pay a visit to Ankara and
Istanbul on 14-16 January 2013 to assess the progress in
the reforms of the Turkish judicial system.
Picture gallery
Website of the Turkish
High Council of Judges and Prosecutors
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The member States must apply the dispositions of the
opinion on the management of the means of the public
prosecution services At Its 7th plenary
meeting in (Strasbourg, 26-27 November 2012), the CCPE
adopted an opinion on the management of the means of the
public prosecution services. The analysis of the
situation in the different member States previously
carried out by the Working group, highlighted that the
budgets granted to prosecution services are regarded as
insufficient, and more so in a period of economic crisis
leading to the necessity of rationalisation of the
management of the resources. The CCPE opinion gives
recommendations to identify the needs, distribute and
use, in a more efficient way, resources of the
prosecution services. The Committee of Ministers will
take note of this opinion in January 2013.
Opinion
No. 7 on the management of the means of Prosecution
services
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 7th Plenary
meeting of the CCPE
The
7th plenary meeting of the CCPE took place in
Strasbourg, on 26 and 27 November 2012. During this
meeting, the CCPE elected Antonio MURA (Italy) as new
President, as the mandate of
Mr Joao Da Silva Miguel has come to end.
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Report of the 7th plenary meeting
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 The
British Supreme Court quotes CCPE in one of its
judgements
The British Supreme Court quoted the
“Bordeaux Declaration” (CCPE’s
Opinion No. 4), jointly adopted in 2009 by the CCPE
and the Consultative Council of European Judges (CCJE),
which states in its paragraph 6: "The enforcement of the
law and, where applicable, the discretionary powers by
the prosecution at the pre-trial stage require that the
status of public prosecutors be guaranteed by law, at
the highest possible level, in a manner similar to that
of judges. They shall be independent and autonomous in
their decision-making and carry out their functions
fairly, objectively and impartially."
Link to
the judgement
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2013 Calendar
2012-2013 Terms of reference
Action plan
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European Court of
Human Rights
Case Moulin v. France
(Application No. 37104/06,
Judgement of 23/11/2010 - in French)
The decision, which was long awaited, is historic and
may have important consequences on the architecture of
the French justice system: in France, prosecutors, being
independent neither of the executive nor of the parties
to the proceedings, are not judicial authorities.
The press
Prosecutors and Judges are claiming for the
independence of the public prosecutor's office (Le
Monde, 20/11/2009) (in French)
the conferences
Training session on "The European Statute for judges and
prosecutors" on 23 & 24 May 2013 in Florence (Italy)
6th meeting of the Network of Public Prosecutors or
equivalent institutions at the Supreme Judicial Courts
of the member States of the European Union, Cracow
(Poland), 16 May 2013
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Conclusions
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Presentation made by the President of the CCPE
Symposium: The independence of justice in Tunisia before
the adotpion of the new Constitution, 13 & 14 March 2013
Workshop on external relations and quality service for
Chief Prosecutors of Turkish pilot courts in Ankara
(Turkey), 20-21 February 2013
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Recognising
the essential role of the public prosecutor in the criminal
justice system of a State governed by the Rule of Law, the
Committee of Ministers decided in July 2005 to institutionalise
the yearly Conference of Prosecutors General of Europe (CPCE) through the creation of the Consultative Council of
European Prosecutors (CCPE). 