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"Improving European Co-operation in the Criminal Justice Field" (High level Conference of the Ministries of Justice and of the Interior)
9-10 November 2006, Moscow (Russian Federation)

 
 Conclusions of
 past meetings

3rd High-level meeting, 17-18 March 2005, Warsaw (Poland)

2nd High-level meeting, 22-23 June 2000, Bucharest (Romania)

1st High-level meeting, 5-6 November 1998, Strasbourg (France)

 

Improving European Co-operation
in the Criminal Justice Field

High level Conference
of the Ministries of Justice and of the Interior

9-10 November 2006, Moscow (Russian Federation)

Photo: Guy De Vel, Director General of Legal Affairs of the Council of Europe, Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Viktor Petrovic Ivanov, Representative of President Putin et Vladimir Vassilievitch Ustinov, Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation
 
The Council of Europe paves the way for more efficient and speedier pan-European co-operation in criminal matters

At the end of their discussions at their Moscow conference of 9 and 10 November, the Ministers of Justice and the Interior of the 46 Council of Europe member states called on the Organisation to modernise and simplify the workings of the main European Conventions regulating international co-operation in criminal matters, particularly those relating to extradition and mutual legal assistance, and to take a number of practical steps.

The Ministers inter alia expressed support for the development of a network of national contact points to facilitate relations between those responsible for international co-operation relating to the fight against terrorism, corruption and organised crime, the trafficking of human beings and cybercrime. They also backed the creation of a database making it easier to access information about the forms that co-operation takes between member states.

Opening addresses

Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe
Ambassador Bruno GAIN, Permanent Representative of France to the Council of Europe, Representative of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe
Mr Ivan BIZJAK, General Director – DG H, Council of the European Union

Addresses by

Mrs Ana LOVRIN, Minister of Justice of Croatia
Mr Ivica KIRIN, Minister of the Interior of Croatia
Mr Anastasis PAPALIGOURAS, Minister of Justice of Greece
Ms Judit LÉVAYNÉ FAZEKAS, State Secretary, Ministry of Justice of Hungary (French only)
Mr Cemil ÇIÇEK, Minister of Justice of Turkey
Mr Saso VASILEVSKI, Deputy Minister of Justice of “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”
Mr Stefan HARABIN, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice of the Slovak Republic (French only)
Mr Lovro ŠTURM, Minister of Justice of Slovenia

Contributions presented by countries

Mr. Slobodan KOVAC, Minister of Justice of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Russian only)
Ministry of Justice of “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia"

About the conference
Background paper
Programme
Participants
Conclusions adopted
The Conference in pictures
 
Reports presented by Rapporteurs/Chairs of sessions
Mr Yuri CHAIKA, Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, Rapporteur for the First Session
Mr Fikrat MAMMADOV, Minister of Justice of Azerbaijan, Rapporteur for the First Session
Mr Eugenio SELVAGGI, Former Chair of the PC-OC, Rapporteur for the First Session
Mr Anastasis PAPALIGOURAS, Minister of Justice of Greece, Rapporteur for the Second Session
Mr Alberto MARITATI, Under Secretary for Justice of Italy, Rapporteur of the Third Session
Mr Guy DE VEL, Director General of Legal Affairs of the Council oof Europe, Rapporteur of the Fourth Session 
 
Reference document
Resolution No. 5 on the functioning of the Council of Europe conventions on judicial co-operation in criminal matters (26th Conference of the European Ministers of Justice, 7-8 April 2005, Helsinki)