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The Directorate of Co-operation implements targeted
cooperation projects in beneficiary countries in the following areas:
economic crime, legal and human rights capacity building, judicial reforms.
In addition it promotes the efficiency of justice (the European Commission
for efficiency for justice - CEPEJ), co-operation between European judges
(the Consultative Council for European judges - CCJE) and European
prosecutors (the Consultative Council of European prosecutors - CCPE) and
the training of European judges and prosecutors (the Lisbon network). |
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What's new ...
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Adoption
of an opinion on relations between judges and prosecutors
[18/11/2009] A
press conference will be held at the Brdo Congress Centre on Friday 20
November at 1.00 pm. following adoption of the opinion on relations between
judges and prosecutors. Meeting in the context of the Slovenian Chairmanship
of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, at the invitation of
the Minister of Justice of Slovenia, Aleš Zalar, the CCPE and CCJE will
adopt a joint opinion on relations between judges and prosecutors setting
down minimum guidelines for co-operation between them. (More).
International
Prize for Justice in the World awarded to the Council of Europe and its
Consultative Council of European Judges
[04/11/2009] The “Justice in the World”
Foundation, set up under the patronage of the International Association of
Judges, has decided to award its prize for 2009 to the Council of Europe for
its efforts in support of judges, referring in particular to the quality of
the work undertaken by its Consultative Council of European Judges (CCJE)
since 2000 (more).
Link
to the special file
TYEC
Project: Closing conference
[10/11/2009] The Closing Conference
of the Project “Ethics for the Prevention of Corruption in Turkey” (TYEC)
will take place in Ankara on 25 November 2009. The two-year project started
on 1 December 2007 and was funded by the European Commission. The project,
among other things, assisted the implementation of the Council of Europe’s
Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) recommendations made to Turkey.
The conference will be addressed by the State Minister, Mr Cevdet Yilmaz, as
well as the representatives of the Council of Europe and the European
Commission. The event will start at 14:00 on Wednesday 25 November 2009 at
the Swiss Hotel in Ankara. The Press will be invited to attend the opening
session.
Programme
More
information on the Project |
Plenary
CCPE and CCJE meetings, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 18-20 November 2009
[16/11/2009]The
4th Plenary meeting of the Consultative Council of European Prosecutors
(CCPE) and the 10th Plenary meeting of the Consultative Council of European
Judges (CCJE) will be held from 18 to 20 November 2009 in Ljubljana, at
Brdo Congress Centre (Slovenia) in
the framework of 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 will take place at the same time as the
Plenary meeting of the Consultative Council of European Judges (CCJE). The
two Councils are expected to adopt 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. A press conference will be held on Friday 20
November at 1.30 pm at the Brdo Congress
Centre of Ljubljana (Slovenia).
Agenda
Council
of Europe at the Internet Governance Forum (15-18 November 2009, Sharm El
Sheikh)
[05/11/2009] The Council of Europe will
co-organise a number of sessions at the forthcoming Internet Governance
Forum (IGF) meeting related to cybercrime, including:
Workshop
93 on children
Best
practice forum 87 on 2Centre
Main
session on security, openness and privacy
Workshop
179 on cybercrime training for judiciary
Workshop
257 on cloud computing
Best
practice forum 68 on cybercrime legislation
Workshop
288 on child online safety indicators
For further information:
Council
of Europe contribution to the IGF: "Internet – Creating opportunities for
all"
Council
of Europe press release
Website
of the IGF
IGF
site of the Council of Europe
Council
of Europe special file on the IGF |
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See also ...
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Conference
on "Justice and Rule of Law in the South Caucasus– achievements and
challenges for the judicial professions", Tbilissi (Georgia), 19-20 November
2008
Special
file |
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