PROJECT TITLE: Strengthening Capacities of the High Judicial Council and the State Prosecutorial Council
COUNTRIES: Serbia
OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Strengthening the independence, efficiency, competence and accountability of the judicial system by building capacities of the independent bodies in order to ensure efficient assumption of the jurisdiction.
Specific objective:
To enhance functioning of Serbian High Judicial and State Prosecutorial Councils by improving their professionalism, management competences and technical capacities for effective and efficient delivery of justice.
ACTIVITIES:
The independence of the judiciary is guaranteed and ensured by the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia. In recent years significant reforms within the judicial sector have been implemented in order to strengthen the independence, professionalism, accountability, administration and management of the judicial system and its representative institutions.
The Activities are designed in order to reach the three expected Results of the project and the Action plan of National Judicial Reform strategy on annual basis
- Administrative capacities of HJC and SPC improved
- Process of evaluation and promotion of judges and public prosecutors improved
- Mechanisms for disciplinary accountability of judges and public prosecutor improved
FUNDING AGENCY: European Commission
LEADER: The Spanish Ministry of Justice through the Fundación Internacional y para Iberoamérica de Administración y Políticas Públicas (FIIAPP) of Spain
PARTNERS: EPLO
TIME FRAME: 2015-2017