The main partners and beneficiaries of the Project are the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council, Prosecutors' Offices, Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Judges’ and Prosecutors’ Training Centres of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republica Srpska, Judicial Commission of Brčko District, Bar associations and individual lawyers, law faculties.

The main objective is to foster harmonisation of judicial practice and co-operation between courts in Bosnia and Herzegovina and strengthen the effective application of the European Convention on Human Rights at the national level.

The following results are expected:

  • a permanent forum/working group of representatives of the judiciary of the State and Entities is set up and facilitated by the Council of Europe to discuss the opportunities of dealing with the execution of judgments and harmonisation of case-law;
  • the ECHR and case law are better applied in national judicial proceedings and the overall quality of national judgments starts improving; the Council of Europe’s European Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP) tools and training methodology are widely used by the beneficiaries,
  • “horizontal” co-operation and information exchange between judges from the two Entities is enhanced,
  • an informal coordinated network of free legal aid lawyers is created and co-operation among them is strengthened.,
  • a network for co-operation between legal professionals and human rights departments at law faculties is established
  • distance-learning training on human rights are introduced for judges and prosecutors of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Project information

  • Duration: Phase 1: 18 months (1 September 2012-28 February 2014) ; Phase 2: 36 months (1 March 2014 – 31 August 2017)
  • Place/ country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Budget: Phase 1:  500 000 €; Phase 2: 1 400 000 €
  • Funding: Voluntary contribution - Norway
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