Comissão Europeia para a Eficiência da Justiça (CEPEJ)

[Recurso eletrónico] “In deciding “to develop the evaluation functions” of the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) in the Action Plan adopted in Warsaw in May 2005, the Heads of State and government of the Council of Europe’s member states have expressed their support to the process setup by the CEPEJ and wish to strengthen it.
This exercise aims to have a detailed knowledge of the functioning of the justice system in all European states and has become the corner stone of the action of our Commission. Drawing lessons from the pilot exercise implemented in 2004 and wishing to develop the proper know how to, according to its Statute, “examine the results achieved by the different judicial systems (…) by using (…) common statistical criteria and means of evaluation”, the CEPEJ is delighted to offer this report to policy makers, judicial practitioners, researchers as well as all citizens who might be users of justice systems. These reports will be published regularly, thus enabling to assess the evolutions of the public services of justice for 800 million Europeans. It is indeed a unique process, built according to a specific methodology, to present the most detailed picture possible for comparing judicial systems of 45 European states. But what for?” [Retirado do Foreword de Eberhard Desch, Presidente do CEPEJ, e Guy De Vel, em CEPEJ (2006) – “European judicial systems Edition 2006 (2004 data)”. Bélgica. Council of Europe. 2006. p.5]