The Action is aimed at ensuring the regional dimension of activities targeting the inconsistency of national judicial practice and incoherent application of the European Convention on Human Rights by national courts in the beneficiary countries.

The Action's primary objective is to ensure the regional judicial dialogue on contentious legal issues in the area of human rights and on how to ensure the consistent application of national legislation and the ECtHR case law. This will complement a broader, pan-European judicial dialogue maintained by the ECtHR through its Superiour Courts' Network (SCN).

The Action will serve as a liaison platform for all stakeholders in the beneficiary countries engaged in ensuring the consistency of the judicial practice: courts, national training institutions, judicial and prosecutorial councils, prosecutor's offices, providing them with the whole range of the Council of Europe expertise in this area deriving from best practices from across the 47 Members States.

Project information

  • Duration: 36 months (24 May 2019 – 23 May 2022)
  • Place/ country: 
  • Budget: 300 000 EUR
  • Funding: European Union/Council of Europe Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey

Project documentation

  • Project Summary
  • Project reports:
     Right to a trial within a reasonable time- ENG
  • HF leaflet - ENG - ALB - BOS -  MKD - MON - SER

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Retour Representatives of the High Judicial Council of Albania and the Supreme Court of North Macedonia visit the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights

Representatives of the High Judicial Council of Albania and the Supreme Court of North Macedonia visit the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights

Harmonisation of the national practice with the standards imposed by the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) is a fundamental precondition for ensuring legal certainty and the overall protection of human rights in the member states.

To this effect, 12 representatives from the High Judicial Council of Albania and the Supreme Court of North Macedonia visited the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on 6 and 7 December 2022. The main objective was to have the first-hand experience from the Court in harmonising its practice and systematising decisions. The two-day study visit included a training on HUDOC and a presentation of case-law analysis, summary of judgements, case-law transparency and accessibility and digital transformation in justice systems.

This activity was organised in the framework of the joint European Union/Council of Europe action “Initiative for legal certainty in the Western Balkans”, implemented by the Council of Europe in the framework of the programme Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey 2019-2022.

STRASBOURG 6-7 DECEMBER 2022
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