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The CEPEJ publishes an evaluation of the judicial systems of the European Union member States
In the frame of a cooperation with the European Commission, the CEPEJ evaluates annually certain aspects of the judicial systems of the EU member States based on the methodology developed within the framework of the cycles of evaluation of the judicial systems. The first part of the CEPEJ study...
“Better Justice through data”: Joint Meeting of the CEPEJ National Correspondents and Pilot Courts Networks in the Framework of the Presidency of Monaco of the Committee of Ministers
On 27 May 2026, a meeting of the CEPEJ Networks tookplace in Strasbourg in the framework of the Presidency of Monaco of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, in the presence of H.E. Gabriel REVEL, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Monaco to the Council of Europe, Sébastien...
Preparation of the first annual version of the CEPEJ Evaluation Report on the agenda of the meeting of the Working Group on the Evaluation of Judicial Systems (CEPEJ-GT-EVAL)
The CEPEJ Working Group on the Evaluation of Judicial Systems (CEPEJ-GT-EVAL) held its 52nd meeting in Paris, France, on 5 and 6 May 2026 in order to continue implementing the reform of the CEPEJ evaluation cycles, which aims to provide European public decision-makers with the most recent,...
Modernisation of the Evaluation Report of Judicial Systems on the agenda of the CEPEJ Working Group on Evaluation of Judicial Systems meeting (CEPEJ-GT-EVAL)
The Working Group on Evaluation of Judicial Systems of the CEPEJ (CEPEJ-GT-EVAL) held its 51st meeting in Strasbourg on 9-10 February 2026. The main objective was to prepare the upcoming European Judicial Systems Evaluation Report, scheduled to be published in December 2026, based on 2025 data....
CEPEJ is organising in Malta the meeting of its working groups and a conference on the theme of “Towards more effective and people-centered digitalised justice in Europe: facing future challenges", with a view to prepare its activity programme
As part of Malta's Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, on the initiative of its President, Mr Francesco Depasquale, the CEPEJ invited its various Working Groups and its Bureau to meet in Valletta (Malta) on 20 and 22 October 2025 for a conference on the theme...
49th meeting of the CEPEJ Working Group on the Evaluation of Judicial Systems (CEPEJ-GT-EVAL)
The CEPEJ Working Group on the Evaluation of Judicial Systems (CEPEJ-GT-EVAL) held its 49th meeting online on 14 and 15 May 2025. During this meeting, the Group continued its work on implementing the reform of the CEPEJ evaluation cycles of judicial systems, which aims to change the content and...
48th Meeting of the CEPEJ Working Group on the Evaluation of Judicial Systems (CEPEJ-GT-EVAL)
The CEPEJ Working Group on the Evaluation of Judicial Systems (CEPEJ-GT-EVAL) will hold its 48th meeting in Venice on March 6-7, 2025. During this meeting, the group will primarily focus on implementing the reform of the CEPEJ evaluation of judicial systems cycles, which notably aims to modify...
The CEPEJ publishes its new Evaluation Report on European judicial systems
The CEPEJ releases its Evaluation Report on European Judicial Systems on 16 October 2024. On this occasion, the main trends of the report will be presented to the Ambassadors, the Permanent Representations to the Council of Europe and representatives of the Council of Europe's highest...
47th meeting of the CEPEJ Working Group on evaluation of judicial systems (CEPEJ-GT-EVAL)
The CEPEJ Working Group on evaluation of judicial systems (CEPEJ-GT-EVAL) held its 47th meeting in Strasbourg on 17 and 18 October 2024. During this meeting, the Working Group reviewed and assessed the 2024 evaluation cycle and the publication on 16 October of the Evaluation Report on European...
46th meeting of the CEPEJ Working Group on the evaluation of judicial systems (CEPEJ-GT-EVAL)
The CEPEJ Working Group on the evaluation of judicial systems (CEPEJ-GT-EVAL), whose mandate was recently renewed by the CEPEJ for two years (2024-2025), held its 46th meeting in Strasbourg on 7 and 8 February 2024. The Working Group reappointed Mr Jaša Vrabec (Slovenia) as President of the...
45th MEETING OF THE CEPEJ WORKING GROUP ON THE EVALUATION OF JUDICIAL SYSTEMS
The CEPEJ Working Group on the evaluation of judicial systems (CEPEJ-GT-EVAL) held its 45th meeting in Strasbourg on 17 and 19 October. At this meeting, the Group discussed preparations of the 2024 evaluation cycle, based on 2022 data, focusing on the structure of the next Evaluation report on...
44th meeting of the CEPEJ Working Group on the evaluation of judicial systems
The CEPEJ Working Group on the evaluation of judicial systems (CEPEJ-GT-EVAL) will hold its 44th meeting in Paris on 2 and 3 February. At this meeting, the Group will finalise the evaluation questionnaire for the 2024 evaluation cycle (2022 data) which will be open to national correspondents in...
43rd meeting of the CEPEJ Working Group on the evaluation of judicial systems
The CEPEJ Working Group on the evaluation of judicial systems (CEPEJ-GT-EVAL) is holding its 43rd meeting in Strasbourg on 19 and 21 October. The Group will take stock of the 2022 evaluation cycle as well as the publication, on 5 October, of the European judicial systems Evaluation Report, and it...
CEPEJ publishes its new Evaluation Report on European judicial systems
The CEPEJ released its Evaluation Report on European Judicial Systems on 5 October 2022. The Report is based on 2020 data and concerns 44 member States of the Council of Europe as well as three observer States to the CEPEJ, Israel, Morocco and Kazakhstan. This ninth cycle of evaluation remains...
The Working Group on Evaluation of judicial systems meets to prepare the data collection and quality control of the 2022 cycle (2020 data)
The 40th meeting of the CEPEJ Working Group on evaluation of judicial systems (CEPEJ-GT-EVAL) started on 7 April 2021 in order to prepare the 15th plenary meeting of the national correspondents which takes place on 8 April 2021. The 2nd day of the meeting will be held on 9 April 2021 in order to...
The CEPEJ's 2020 evaluation report of judicial systems presented at the Conference of Ministers of Justice
On the occasion of the online conference of Ministers of Justice on 9 November 2020, the President of the CEPEJ, Mr Ramin Gurbanov, officially presented the CEPEJ evaluation report on judicial systems. He recalled in particular that the CEPEJ report, published on 22nd October 2020, is a reference...
The CEPEJ report containing the figures on the efficiency of the functioning of judicial systems in Europe has been published
The CEPEJ has just published its 8th report "European judicial systems - CEPEJ Evaluation Report – 2020 Evaluation cycle (2018 data)". This biennial report highlights some trends concerning judicial systems at European level and beyond. It contains quantified, commented and analysed data on the...
2nd ad hoc meeting of the CEPEJ Working Group on Evaluation of judicial systems
2nd ad hoc meeting of the CEPEJ Working Group on Evaluation of judicial systems The 2nd ad hoc videoconference meeting of the CEPEJ Working Group on Evaluation took place on 22 April 2020 and was aimed at preparing the 2020 edition of the evaluation report. The group also discussed the country...
The Working Group on the Evaluation of European Judicial Systems is preparing its next report
The Working Group on Evaluation continues the preparation of the next CEPEJ report “European judicial systems – Efficiency and quality”. Several videoconferences have been organised between the working group experts and the experts in charge of drafting each chapter in order to prepare the next...
The Working Group on evaluation of judicial systems prepares the next CEPEJ report on the evaluation of judicial systems
The Working Group on evaluation of judicial systems (CEPEJ-GT-EVAL) will meet in Strasbourg on 6 and 7 February 2020 and will focus on the preparation of the next report on the evaluation of judicial systems to be published in October 2020 on the basis of the 2018 data. This bi-annual evaluation...