The CCPE may be requested by member States to look into specific problems concerning prosecutors. It addresses topical issues and, if necessary, visits the country concerned to discuss ways of improving the existing situation in legislative and practical terms.

  Thematic studies of the CCPE

• Thematic study of the CCPE on digitalisation in the work of prosecution services and international co-operation (2023)

  Reports concerning member States

• Overview of Councils of Prosecutors and other bodies dealing with prosecutorial self-governance in member States of the Council of Europe (2023)
• Report on the independence and impartiality of the prosecution services in the Council of Europe member States (2019 edition)
• Report on the independence and impartiality of the prosecution services in the Council of Europe member States in 2017
• Report jointly prepared by the CCJE and the CCPE on Challenges for judicial independence and impartiality in the member states of the Council of Europe (March 2016)
  • Comments from the member States on this report

Specific situations

 Lithuania

• Opinion of the CCPE Bureau following a letter of the Prosecutor General of Lithuania concerning legislative developments resulting in a disproportionately large gap in the remuneration of prosecutors and judges (August 2023)

 Republic of Moldova

• Opinion of the CCPE Bureau adopted following a request by the Superior Council of Prosecutors of the Republic of Moldova concerning the independence of prosecutors in the context of legislative changes as regards the prosecution service (February 2020)

 Romania

• Opinion of the CCPE Bureau following a request by the Romanian Movement for Defending the Status of Prosecutors as regards the situation on the independence of the prosecutors in Romania (May 2019) - in English / in Romanian
  A summary of the Opinion of the CCPE Bureau is also available in Arabic

 Serbia

• Opinion of the CCPE Bureau following a request by the Prosecutors Association of Serbia to assess the compatibility with European standards of the proposed amendments to the Constitution of Serbia which will affect the composition of the High Prosecutorial Council and the way prosecutors work (March 2019)
• Opinion of the CCPE Bureau on the compatibility with European standards of the proposed amendments to the Constitution of Serbia (June 2018)

 Slovenia

• Opinion of the CCPE Bureau following a letter of the Deputy Prosecutor General and Temporary Head of the State Prosecutor's Office of Slovenia, acting on behalf of the Slovenian Prosecutor's Office and Slovenian Association of State Prosecutors, concerning the failure to enforce a decision of the Constitutional Court of Slovenia aimed at remedying the identified unconstitutionalities regarding significant disproportions between the salary grades of judges' positions compared to the salary grades of executive and legislative branch functions (March 2024)

Turkey

Following the events that took place in Turkey in summer 2016, the Bureau of the Consultative Council of European Prosecutors (CCPE) expressed its position on the situation of prosecutors

• Statement from the Bureau of the CCPE (22 July 2016)

The Consultative Council of European Prosecutors (CCPE) made public its declaration on communications relating to the functioning of the prosecution service in Turkey

• Declaration (September 2015)
• Response by the Turkish authorities