ENCJ elects new bodies

During its General Assembly meeting in Dublin from 9-11 May 2012 the ENCJ held elections for the Presideny and the Steering Committee.

Paul Gilligan, member of the board of the Courts Service of Ireland will be the ENCJ President from 1 January 2013 till 31 December 2014. Miguel Carmona Ruano of the Spanish Consejo General del Poder Judicial will continue to be the ENCJ President till 31 december 2012.

The composition of the ENCJ Steering Committee from May 2012 till mid-2014 is as follows:

Conseil Supérieur de la Justice/Hoge Raad voor de Justitie, Belgium
Judges Council of England and Wales
Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura, Italy
Teiseju Taryba, Lithuania
Raad voor de rechtspraak, The Netherlands
Krajowa Rada Sadownictwa, Poland
Consiliul Superior al Magistraturii, Romania
Consejo General del Poder Judicial, Spain

The newly elected Steering Committee appointed the following persons on the Executive Board:

• Geert Vervaeke, CSJ/HRJ Belgium
• Paolo Corder, CSM Italy
• Horatius Dumbrava, CSM Romania

Miguel Carmona Ruanoa, as Preident of the ENCJ, also continues to be a Member of the Executive Board till the end of his mandate.

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