The European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice

  Country profile: BULGARIA
 
CEPEJ Member

 

 National Correspondent

Ekaterina Stoyanova
Senior Expert
International Legal Cooperation and European Affairs Directorate
Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Bulgaria
1040 Sofia, Bulgaria
+359 2 9237 441

+359 2 9809 223
e.stoyanova@justice.government.bg

  
Gergana PAVLOVA
Junior Expert
International Legal Co-operation and European Affairs Directorate
Ministry of Justice
+ 359 2 9237 448
g_pavlova@justice.government.bg
     
Member of the Lisbon Network

 

 Pilot Court

Ms Kremena HARALANOVA
Expert
Continiuos Training Department
National Institute of Justice of Bulgaria

  
Sabina NENKOVA HRISTOVA
District Court of Burgas
Alexandrovska 101
8000 BURGAS
osburgas@abv.bg
     
Evaluation Exercise
     
Translations of CEPEJ documents (if available):

 
     
Links to relevant Institutions

 

 Ressources
 

Legal texts (Codes, laws, regulations etc.)

   www.vss.justice.bg
Case-law of the higher court/s

    www.vks.bg
    www.sac.government.bg
Other documents (e.g. forms)

    www.vss.justice.bg

     
Recent developments in the judicial field
Yambol administrative Court of Bulgaria, Winner of the Crystal Scales of Justice Prize for innovative Court practices : Equal before the law, but not always equal before the language – Improving communication between courts and citizens

A CEPEJ meeting, in the framework of a targeted cooperation, concerning criteria for individual evaluation of judges took place in Sofia from 21 to 22 January 2009. On this occasion, Miglena Tacheva, Bulgarian Ministry of Justice, has officialy asked the CEPEJ delegation to prepare an expertise on the actual methodology of evaluation of the judges work in Bulgaria, with an aim of a reform in the weeks to come. The delegation was also received at the Council for the Judiciary.
Organisational chart of the system of justice