Country profiles

On this page you will find the name of the representative for each country at the CCJE.


- Albania
Ms. Brikena Ukperaj, Judge in the Apeal Court of Vlora/ Member of High Judicial Council of Albania - Andorra
Mme Canòlic MINGORANCE CAIRAT, Μagistrat au Tribunal de Corts (chambre criminelle) Armenia
Mr Stepan MIKAYELYAN, Cour civile d'appel de l'Arménie- Austria
Ms Yvonne SUMMER, Vice-President of the Austrian Association of Judges, President of the District Court of Dornbirn - Azerbaijan
Mr Khagani MAMMADOV, Judge, Supreme Court of the Republic of Azerbaijan - Belgium
M. Eric de FORMANOIR de la CAZERIE, Conseiller à la Cour de cassation de Belgique, Cour de cassation, Palais de Justice, Bruxelles - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dr.sci Jasmina Ćosić Dedović, Judge, Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Bulgaria
Ms Maiia ROUSSEVA, Judge, Supreme Court of Cassation - Croatia
Mr Duro SESSA (President of the CCJE) - Cyprus
Mr Charis MALACHTOS, Judge of the Supreme Court - Czech Republic
Mgr. Luboš DÖRFL, President of the High Court - Denmark
Ms. Vibeke RØNNE, Supreme Court Judge - Estonia
Mr Meelis EERIK, President of the Regional Court of Civil and Criminal Matters in Tallinn - Finland
Mr Kimmo VANNE, Judge, Turku Court of appeal and chairman of the Judges’ Union
Substitute: Ms Päivi HIRVELÄ, Judge of the Supreme Court, Helsinki
- France
Mr Valéry TURCEY, Conseiller à la Cour de Cassation - Georgia
Justice Nino BAKAKURI, Cour Suprême de Géorgie
nino.bakakuri@supremecourt.ge
- Germany
Ms Anke EILERS, Presiding Judge, Court of Appeal, Cologne - Greece
Ms Sofia KARYSTINAIOU-MAGOULA, Judge at the Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece (Areios Pagos) - Hungary
Mr Árpád OROSZ - Iceland
Mr Justice Benedikt BOGASON, Supreme Court Judge, Supreme Court of Iceland, Chairman of the Judicial Council - Ireland
The Hon. Ms Justice Leonie REYNOLDS, The High Court - Italy
Ms Valeria PICCONE, Judge at the Supreme Court, Magistrat de la Cour de Cassation - Latvia
Ms Aija BRANTA, Judge, Supreme Court of the Republic of Latvia - Liechtenstein
M. Dietmar BAUR, Juge, Cour de Justice, Fürstliches Landgericht

- Lithuania
Ms. Sigita RUDÉNAITÉ, Chairman of the Civil Division of the Supreme Court of Lithuania - Luxembourg
Ms Marianne HARLES, Premier Conseiller à la Cour d’appel, Cour Supérieure de Justice, L-2080 Luxembourg - Malta
Mr Justice Tonio MALLIA - Republic of Moldova
Mr Radu TURCANU, Vice President of the district Court of Botania (municipality of Chisinau) - Monaco
Mr Jérôme FOUGERAS-LAVERGNOLLE, Premier Juge, Président du Tribunal Correctionnel de Monaco - Montenegro
Ms Mirjana POPOVIC, Judge, High Court of Podgorica, Moskovska street no. 169 C4, PODGORICA - Netherlands
Prof. dr. Marc DE WERD, Judge in the Amsterdam Court of Appeal in the Netherlands
Professor of European law at Maastricht University - North Macedonia
Mr. Shpend DEVAJA - Norway
Mr Wiggo Storhaug Larssen, Judge at the Court of Appeal of Bergen - Poland
Ms. Teresa KURCYUSZ-FURMANIK
Judge - Portugal
Mr Orlando AFONSO, Juge à la Cour Suprême - Romania
Ms Rodica Aida POPA, Juge, Docteur en Droit, Section Criminelle de la Haute Cour de Cassation et de Justice - Russia Federation
Mr Viktor MOMOTOV, Justice of the Supreme Court - San Marino
M. le Commissaire Fabio GIOVAGNOLI - Serbia
Ms Spomenka ZARIC, Judge of the Supreme Court of Cassation - Slovakia
Mr František MOZNER, Judge of the Supreme Court - Slovenia
Ms. Nina BETETTO, Vice-President of the CCJE, Judge of the Supreme Court - Spain
Mr Manuel FERNÁNDEZ-LOMANA GARCÍA, Senior Judge of the 2nd Section Administrative Chamber of the National High Court of Spain - Sweden
Ms Helena Jäderblom, President of the Supreme Administrative Court, Stockholm - Switzerland
Μ. Luca MARAZZI, Federal Judge at the 2nd Civil Law Court, Swiss Federal Court - Turkey
Mr Mehmet YILMAZ, Acting President of the High Council of Judges and Prosecutors of Turkey, ANKARA
Ms Emine Burcu SINOPLU, Rapporteur Judge, Foreign Affairs and Project Bureau (CJP of Turkey), Emniyet mahallesi, Mevlana Bulvari N° 36 Yenimahalle, 06330 ANKARA - Ukraine
Mr Viktor GORODOVENKO, Judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, Kyiv, 01033 - United Kingdom
Lord Justice Kim LEWISON, Royal Courts of Justice

Conferences and other events
- Presentation the CCJE’s work before the Committee of Ministers
10 February 2021
Speech of Ms Nina Betetto
- Webinar “The judiciary: possible ways of development”
18 January 2021
organised by the Association of Polish Judges IUSTITIA, as well as by the EAJ, MEDEL and AEAJ
Speech of Ms Nina Betetto
- Online Conference of Ministers of Justice: "Independence of Justice and the Rule of Law"
9 November 2020