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Courts funding and Accountability |
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In 2006-2007 the ENCJ studied the various ways that the judiciary is funded in the EU. The report on Courts Funding and Accountability gives an broad overview of the systems in place in the Member States of the EU. |
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Mission and Vision; a Strategy for the Council |
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In 2005/2006 the ENCJ working group continued their work. They focused their work on the importance for Councils for the Judiciary to develop a strategy. The report Mission and Vision II sets out the aims of a strategy and gives an overview of the best practices in this field in Belgium, Finland, Hungary, Lituania and the Netherlands. |
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Mission and Vision; managing and assessing the perfomance of Councils |
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In 2006-2007 the working group, called Mission and Vision III, defined their task as follows:
- the development of a framework for the performance assessment of a council and/or judicial system;
- discussion of the initiatives that members and observers have taken or plan to take with respect to the development of a mission, vision and strategy, and in so doing, how to pay attention to the later performance assessment.
The report, titled : "If you can't recognize failure you can't correct it: managing and assessing the performance of a Council or Judicial System", contains among others the experiences with perfomance management in Finland, Romania and the Netherlands. |
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2010-2011 Project on Councils for the Judiciary |
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One of the Strategic Objectives of the ENCJ, as set out in the Strategic Plan, is to promote the development of independent Councils for the Judiciary. In 2010/2011 a project team set out to develop the first part of a Handbook on Councils for the Judiciary. The report on Councils for the Judiciary that was drafted by the project team contains a set of recommendations dealing with the composition, presidency and powers of Councils for the Judiciary. It also considers the participation of the Minister of Justice in the Council and the relation between the Council and the other State Powers. The next step will be to to collect all relevant materials from the ENCJ Members with the aim to develop a handbook on Councils for the Judiciary. |
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The General Assembly of the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary, met in Budapest , on 21-23 May 2008. A resolution setting out guidelines for the self governance of the judiciary was adopted. |
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