National projects
Council of Europe/European Union Partnership for Good Governance
Supporting the criminal justice reform and harmonising the application of European standards in Armenia
Start date: 1 January 2019
Duration: 36 months
Donor: The project is funded by the European Union and the Council of Europe and implemented by the Council of Europe in the framework of their Partnership for Good Governance 2019-2022
Project counterparts: Ministry of Justice, Justice Academy, Judiciary, Representative of the Republic of Armenia before the European Court of Human Rights, Parliament, Office of the General Prosecutor, Special Investigation Service, Investigative Committee, Human Rights Defender’s Office, as well as civil society.
Contact Person: Ms Gayane Hovhannisyan, Senior Project Officer
The Project aims at supporting Armenia in the criminal justice reform through legislative, methodological and capacity-building assistance. It will provide expert advice in the process of formulating and applying criminal and criminal procedure policy by key justice sector stakeholders. This will include capacity building for the Justice Academy to train judges and judicial servants, as well as direct capacity building for criminal justice sector institutions. Special attention will be paid to the issues highlighted by the CoE monitoring mechanisms. These will include, but will not be limited to, the prevention of ill-treatment and impunity, application of pre-trial detention, procedural guarantees in the criminal procedure, etc. The Project will attempt to capitalise on the heightened interest of the public towards some of these issues to both raise the awareness of European standards, but also to achieve, together with Armenian stakeholders, legislative and practical solutions most in line with the European standards.
It is expected that as results of the Project:
1. National criminal justice policy and practice will be better aligned with European standards;
2. Harmonisation of national jurisprudence with the ECtHR case-law will be facilitated;
3. Capacity of the Justice Academy to train judges, candidate judges and judicial servant on criminal justice and human rights will be strengthened.
