Structural Reforms EU - Completed Projects
LAST UPDATE: 11/2024
The Council of Europe, in collaboration with the EU/EC SG.REFORM, successfully completed 41 projects between 2018 and 2024, bringing significant reforms in EU member States, to effectively address the challenges identified in the country-specific recommendations and to implement European Union law.
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Key figures on completed EU structural reform projects:
Geographical Scope: 40 country-specific projects, and 1 multinational project
Agreements: 35 projects within Framework Agreements, and 6 within Individual Agreements
In 16 policy areas falling under the three main values of the Council of Europe: the protection of human rights, the Rule of Law and, democracy
*The key policy areas in relation to these projects are: democratic governance, independence and efficiency of justice, and anti-money laundering
Democracy:
- Democratic governance
- Education for democracy
- Intercultural cities
- Local governance
Rule of Law:
- Independence and efficiency of justice
- Digitalisation of the judiciary
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Action against crime and protection of citizens
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Sanctions regime
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Prisons and police
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Anti-money laundering and corruption
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Action against trafficking of human beings
Human Rights:
- Children’s rights
- Anti-discrimination, diversity and inclusion
- Effectiveness of the European Convention on Human Rights
- Justice through digital transition
- Education of legal professionals – HELP programme
*You may browse through our work by selecting one (or all) of the three categories listed below.
Simply click the corresponding button to view the projects within your chosen category.
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HUMAN RIGHTS
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HUMAN RIGHTS
Framework Agreement 2023:
Framework Agreement 2022:
- Croatia: Digital by default - optimisation of efficiency and quality of judicial services and transparency of judicial decisions
- Spain: Strengthening child-friendly justice through effective co-operation and coordination among different Barnahus-type services in the regions of Spain (1)
Framework Agreement 2021:
- Croatia: Promotion of the rule of law and fundamental rights through high-quality online trainings in the Croatian judiciary
- Finland: Ensuring child-friendly justice through the effective operation of the Barnahus-units in Finland
- Slovenia: Improving the juvenile justice system and strengthening the education and training of penitentiary staff (Component I)
- Slovenia: Improving the juvenile justice system and strengthening the education and training of penitentiary staff (Component II)
Framework Agreement 2020:
- Croatia: Support to the implementation of e-communication in Croatian judiciary
- Cyprus: Enhancing the capacity of the justice system by an effective implementation of the reform recommendations and processes
Framework Agreement 2019:
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DEMOCRACY
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DEMOCRACY
Framework Agreement 2022:
- Hungary: Local government public finance development and municipal capacity building in Hungary
- Bulgaria: Developing fiscal decentralization and improving local financial management in Bulgaria
- Finland: Delivering Good Governance and Balanced Local Economy in Finland
- Italy: Supporting an efficient national mechanism of recognition of refugees’ qualifications in Italy
Framework Agreement 2020:
- Lithuania: Establishment of legal, institutional and financial framework at regional (county) level, capacity-building to enhance quality of regional public administration in Lithuania
- Slovakia: Delivering Good Governance in Slovakia– II Phase
Framework Agreement 2019:
Ad-hoc contract:
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RULE OF LAW
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RULE OF LAW
Framework Agreement 2023:
Framework Agreement 2022:
- Poland: Strengthening the risk assessment mechanisms and the AML/CFT strategic analysis function of the Polish Financial Intelligence Unit
- Bulgaria: Establishing a balanced workload distribution in the judicial system
- Multiple countries: Effective and uniform implementation of the sanctions regime in EU member states
Framework Agreement 2021:
- Croatia: Risk based supervision of anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism
- Estonia: Strengthening of Estonian anti-money laundering framework
- Portugal: Developing a risk based methodology for an automatic anti-money laundering/counter terrorist financing risk categorisation for supervised entities in Portugal
- Slovakia: Enhancing the effectiveness of the anti-money laundering framework in Slovak Republic
- Latvia: Strengthening access to justice in Latvia through fostering mediation and legal aid services (Phase II)
Framework Agreement 2020:
- Cyprus: Implementation of the National Horizontal Action Plan against Corruption
- Czech Republic: Enhancing effectiveness of the AML/CFT regime in the Czech Republic
- Romania: Implementing a national mechanism to assess and manage money laundering and terrorism financing risks in Romania
Framework Agreement 2019:
- Cyprus: Enhancing the Current Reform of the Court System and the Implementation Process as well as the Efficiency of Justice
- Latvia: Strengthening access to justice in Latvia through fostering mediation and legal aid services, as well as support to the development of judicial policies and to increased quality of court management
- Malta: Establishing a Digital Strategy for the Maltese Justice Sector
- Slovakia: Continued support to a well performing Slovak judiciary
- Spain: Promoting cyberjustice in Spain through change management (phase II)
Ad-hoc contracts:
- Bulgaria: Enhancing capabilities of Bulgarian authorities to effectively mitigate money laundering and terrorism financing risks
- Malta: Supporting the efficiency of justice in Malta
- Portugal: Support to the improvement of training programmes in the judicial sector of Portugal
- Romania: Reorganisation of the Romanian Blood System