Armenia-Supporting the criminal justice reform and harmonizing the application of the European standards in Armenia

The main partners and beneficiaries of the Project are the Ministry of Justice, the Judiciary, the Justice Academy, the Representative of the Republic of Armenia before the European Court of Human Rights, Prosecutors’ Office, Special Investigation Service, Investigative Committee, Human Rights Defender’s Office and non-governmental organisations.

The main target groups are staff of the Ministry of Justice, stakeholders of the criminal justice reform, trainers of the Justice Academy, judges, prosecutors, investigators, staff of the Human Rights Defender’s Office and NGOs.

The final beneficiary is the population of Armenia who should enjoy a greater protection of its rights.

It is expected that as results of the Project:

National criminal justice policy and practice will be better aligned with European standards;
Judiciary will deliver higher quality criminal justice owing to a more harmonised application of European standards and national case-law;
Capacity of the Justice Academy to train judges, candidate judges and judicial assistants on criminal justice and human rights is strengthened.

Project information

Duration: 36 months (1 January 2019 - 31 December 2021)
Place/country: Armenia
Budget: EUR 875 000
Funding: European Union and the Council of Europe

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Back Staff of the Representative of the Republic of Armenia before the European Court of Human Right enhanced their knowledge and skills on the new criminal procedure legislation of Armenia

Staff of the Representative of the Republic of Armenia before the European Court of Human Right enhanced their knowledge and skills on the new criminal procedure legislation of Armenia

One -day workshop on “Selected issues of new Criminal Procedure Code of Armenia” was organised for 18 staff members of the Representative of the Republic of Armenia before the ECtHR on 7 December in Marriott Hotel in Yerevan. New regulations, provisions and procedural safeguards in the context of Articles 5, 6 and 8 of the adopted CPC were presented and discussed, as well as types of judicial review such as appellate, cassation, special and extraordinary reviews.

Key presentation on “Important novelties of the new CPC from the perspective of the execution of the ECtHR judgments against Armenia” was delivered by Pavlo Pushkar, Head of Division, Department for the Execution of the Judgments of the ECtHR, Council of Europe. The head of the former Working Group Hrayr Ghukasyan and member of the Working Group Davit Melkonyan, that was tasked to prepare the new Criminal Procedure Code, delivered the sessions of the workshop.

The workshop was welcomed by Maxime Longangue, Deputy Head of the Council of Europe Office in Yerevan and Liparit Drmeyan, Head of the Office of the Representative of Armenia before the ECtHR.

The workshop was organised within the framework of the Project “Supporting the criminal justice reform and harmonising the application of the European standards in Armenia" funded within the European Union and Council of Europe Partnership for Good Governance.

Yerevan, Armenia 7 December 2021