European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice

The European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice is a judicial body, composed of experts from all the 46 member States of the Council of Europe and prepares tools to improve the efficiency and functioning of justice in Europe.
The European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice is made up of experts of the 46 member states of the Council of Europe. It develops tools aimed at improving the efficiency and the functioning of justice in Europe.
Its tasks are to:

Analyse the results of judicial systems.
Identify the problems they might meet.
Define concrete means to, first, improve evaluation of performances of the judicial system and then, the functioning of those systems.
Improve the implementation of existing Council of Europe instruments and suggest, if necessary, new instruments.
Assist a state, at its request.

To realize those tasks, the CEPEJ elaborates indicators, collects and analyses data, defines measures and means of evaluation, drafts various documents, develops links with research institutes and documentation centre, invite qualified persons, NGO, conduct hearings, develops networks of judicial professionals.
The CEPEJ Presidents became:

Eberhard Desch 2002–2006,
Fausto de Santis 2007–2010,
John Stacey 2011–2014,
Georg Stawa 2015–2018,
Ramin Gurbanov 2018–2022.
Francesco Depasquale 2023–present.

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