The Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey is a co-operation initiative of the European Union and the Council of Europe for South East Europe. It is a three-year programme, which was implemented from May 2016 for a period of 36 months. The actions under the Horizontal Facility are funded primarily by the EU and are co-funded and implemented by the Council of Europe.
The fourth Steering Committee meeting for the Horizontal Facility Action “Accountability of the Judicial System” took place on 25 October 2018 in the European Union Information Centre in Podgorica.
Ms Senka Danilović, President of the Governing Board of the Centre for Training in Judiciary and State Prosecution welcomed the representatives of the Delegation of the European Union to Montenegro and of the Council of Europe, together with the main beneficiary institutions: Judicial Council, Prosecutorial Council, Supreme Court of Montenegro, Supreme State Prosecutor`s Office, Centre for training in Judiciary and State Prosecution, Ministry of Justice of Montenegro, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro, Association of Judges of Montenegro and Association of Prosecutors of Montenegro.
A list of activities completed for the period February –October 2018 was presented at the meeting, including the plans for the future activities which were discussed with the representatives of the beneficiary institutions. Based on the feedback obtained from the Steering Committee members and in accordance with the availability of budget resources, the project team will finalise the list of project activities to be implemented until May 2018.
The fifth Steering Committee meeting is tentatively scheduled for mid of May 2018.
The activity was organised within the framework of the Council of Europe Action “Accountability of the Judicial System” which is being implemented in Montenegro under the joint Council of Europe and the European Union programme “Horizontal Facility for Western Balkans and Turkey”.
