The overall objective of the project is to strengthen capacities of the CARDS countries to develop and implement judicial co-operation against serious crime based on the European Union acquis and other European and international standards and practices by supporting the Prosecutors’ Network. 

In particular, the project’s focus is on strengthening the legislation and institutional capacities of General Prosecutors’ Offices of South-Eastern Europe in view of a more effective co-operation against serious crime. The implementation of the Project started in April 2008 and will end in July 2010; it covers the following areas: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" and Kosovo*.  

The Council of Europe (Department of Information Society and Action against Crime, Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs) is responsible for the overall management of the project which it runs in close co-operation with the Italian Ministry of Justice.

*All reference to Kosovo, whether to the territory, institutions or population, in this text shall be understood in full compliance with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 and without prejudice to the status of Kosovo.

Maria Oreshkina
Tel: +33 3 90 21 40 26
Fax: +33 3 90 21 56 50
Email: maria.oreshkina [at] coe.int