On 21 February 2017 Mr. Edvins Balševics, Director of the Court Administration of Latvia, and Mrs Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni, Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe, signed an agreement on funding the Project “Evaluation of the Latvian judicial system”. Under this agreement, the CEPEJ and the Court Administration of Latvia will cooperate in view of strengthening the independence, efficiency and quality of the Latvian judiciary. In particular, CEPEJ will conduct an assessment of the overall performance of the national judicial system, applying its tools and methodology. The action will be implemented in the framework of the “Justice for Growth” Project, with the support of the European Social Fund. According to the “EU Justice Agenda 2020 – Strengthening Trust, Mobility and Growth within the Union”, justice policies should support economic recovery, growth and tackling unemployment. Latvian authorities pursue structural reforms needed to ensure that the justice system is capable of delivering swift, reliable and trustworthy justice, which would notably reduce the length of judicial proceedings, thereby supporting the effectiveness of other policies. The announced project should facilitate the implementation of the priorities assumed by the Ministry of Justice of Latvia for justice sector reforms.