Antonio Vercher Noguera (Spain) - President of the CCPE since 1 January 2025

One of the most outstanding characteristics of the CCPE - as well as of different prosecutorial systems which integrate the CCPE standards - is the capacity to get involved in all those issues of legal and social nature which, in a way or another, represent justice and the public interest that the notion of justice provides. This includes, for instance, the perceived flaws in the criminal justice system, all sorts of challenges related to the concept of fairness and equity, illegalities in general, etc. Accordingly, everything that has to do with the wide concept of justice is essential for the task of the CCPE.

That approach has been the perceived as a lighthouse which illuminates the CCPE activity since it was created in 2005. However, new problems, challenges and difficulties continue appearing in the legal field, although in a geometric progression rather than in arithmetic one, as in previous times. That is completely logical since society gets more and more complex as times go by.

It goes without saying that being a prosecutor as one of the administrators of justice, she/he must get necessarily involved in whatever type of novelty that appears in this field. It also goes without saying that the CCPE must follow the same pathway, especially considering that what has been said in the previous lines has an indisputable global perspective, and the CCPE is the natural representative of all European prosecutors in the Council of Europe.

Antonio Vercher Noguera