Newsroom Kosovo 2019-2022
Preliminary CEPEJ expert mission to Kosovo* to present its methodology on judicial mapping
On 20 and 21 October 2022, the CEPEJ expert Ms Carmela Germinario met with representatives of the Kosovo Judicial Council, courts, prosecution offices and the Ministry of Justice to present the CEPEJ Guidelines on the creation of judicial maps to support access to justice within a quality...
Peer-to-Peer international workshop with the Kosovo Judicial Council and the High Judicial Council of Albania on shared challenges concerning the efficiency and quality of justice
On 8-9 November 2022, members of the Kosovo Judicial Council and the High Judicial Council of Albania met in Tirana to discuss shared challenges concerning the functioning of their respective justice systems as well as the support that CEPEJ could provide in the coming years as a continuation of...
Improving the collection and analysis of statistics on the work of prosecution offices in Kosovo *
On October 10-11, 2022, CEPEJ experts Mr. Vincent Macq (Belgium) and Mr. Ivan Crnčec (Croatia) met with the Acting Prosecutor General, the Secretariat of the Kosovo Prosecutorial Council, as well as the Pristina Prosecutor's Office to discuss ways to improve the efficiency of the collection of...
CEPEJ support to the revision of the system of evaluation of the performance of judges in Kosovo*
On 26 and 27 September 2022, the CEPEJ expert, Ms Nina Betetto (Slovenia) met in Pristina with representatives of the Kosovo Judicial Council, the Commission for the Evaluation of Judges' Performance, the Academy of Justice and judges of courts of first instance and the Supreme Court for an...
Capacity-building sessions on CEPEJ performance indicators for courts in Kosovo*
On 14-15 September 2022, 45 participants from all courts attended the training on CEPEJ performance indicators organized in coordination with the Justice Academy and the Kosovo Judicial Council. The experts, Ms Marina Naumovska-Milevska and Ms Anna Skrjabina, presented the main CEPEJ tools, in...
Study Visit to Latvia for judges and members of the Kosovo Judicial Council
On 20-21 July 2022, CEPEJ supported a Study Visit of judges and members of the Kosovo Judicial Council to Latvian judiciary. A group of 16 participants including Mr Albert Zogaj, the Chairman of the Kosovo Judicial Council (KJC), Mr Enver Peci, the President of the Supreme Court, Presidents of...
CEPEJ organises a training on its tools linked with ICT used in Kosovo* courts
On May 16th and 17, in cooperation with the Justice Academy of Kosovo, KoSEJ II organized a training with members of the Kosovo Judicial Council, court presidents and supervisory judges, in particular on performance and efficiency indicators used by courts in their Court Management Information...
CEPEJ court users’ satisfaction surveys as a self-assessment tool of management in Kosovo* courts
In January 2022, court user’s satisfaction surveys will be launched in the courts of Pristina, Peja and Mitrovica. The surveys will enable courts to use the feedback of court users as to identify strengths and weaknesses in the courts’ functioning. The Kosovo Judicial Council (KJC) considers...
CEPEJ key performance indicators included in dashboards for courts and prosecution in Kosovo*
On 4 February 2022, the CMIS (Case Management Information System) project within the Kosovo Judicial Council and Kosovo Prosecutorial Council presented dashboards to monitor court and prosecution performance to the members of the Users’ Working Group which is working to advance the CMIS in...
Release of the fourth assessment of justice system of Kosovo*
On 1 March 2022, the Ministry of Justice officially launched the assessment report on the functioning of the Kosovo justice system. This report, based on CEPEJ methodology, is the fourth one of its kind, and the second one prepared by the Ministry of Justice, which shows that the Ministry and the...
Kosovo Judicial Council announces new statistical reports for courts incorporating key CEPEJ performance indicators
On 6 September 2021, the Kosovo Judicial Council (KJC) announced that new statistical reports are now available in Kosovo* in the courts and can be used by all judges and court presidents to monitor performance, court backlogs, postponements of hearings, and the length of court proceedings. The...
Workshop on Automatic Re-Assignment of Criminal Cases
On 15 June 2021, the CEPEJ organised a hybrid workshop on implementation of an automatic Re-Assignment of judges and/or judicial panels in criminal cases during which CEPEJ experts presented their findings and recommendations. These recommendations aim to address situations when judges designated...
CEPEJ supports the setting up of a regular and sustainable assessment of the justice system in Kosovo*
In 2021, for the second consecutive year, the Kosovo Ministry of Justice will be leading, with CEPEJ support, the assessment of the justice system continuing to move towards the objective of setting up a regular and sustainable assessment of the functioning of the justice system in Kosovo. In...
Know-How guidelines on data collection and analysis to assess the functioning of the judicial system in Kosovo*
On 1 December 2020, an online consultation has been organised with representatives of the Kosovo Prosecutorial Council (KPC) and the Special Advisor of the EU Office in Kosovo to discuss the questions of the CEPEJ Evaluation Scheme related to the prosecutorial caseload, in order to improve the...
Pilot testing conducted at the Basic Court of Pristina to issue court summonses electronically to lawyers, Kosovo*
On 16 November, a team composed of a judge in the civil division at the Basic Court of Pristina, a legal secretary, and a trainer from the Case Management Information System project, conducted a pilot test to confirm that court summonses can be generated from the case management system and sent...
The Justice Academy in Kosovo* gets started with online survey on court efficiency
On 17 September 2020, the heads of the initial and continuous training programmes at the Kosovo Justice Academy worked with the KoSEJ2 Action team on creating their first survey on court efficiency for judges, court presidents, and court staff. The survey will be deployed via email, in accordance...
Exploring the possibility to develop a document-exchange system to facilitate the communication between justice users, lawyers and courts in Kosovo* and Albania
On 23 May 2020, the CEPEJ Secretariat organised a meeting with Mr Ghera, President of the Court of Strasbourg, and the SEJIII and KOSEJII project teams to get an understanding of how courts and lawyers communicate in France through the e-Barreau platform, and to discuss if a similar platform...
Issuing court summonses electronically in Kosovo*
On 3 September 2020, the CEPEJ international expert Mr Thierry Ghera, President of the Court of Strasbourg, presented to Mr Skender Çocaj, Chairman of the Kosovo Judicial Council, the benefits of issuing court summons electronically. Mr Ghera presented the French system in which all documents in...
Joining efforts with international partners to support the development of statistical reports and dashboards for courts and prosecution offices in Kosovo*
In February 2020, the KoSEJ II Action and the USAID-funded project ‘Justice System Strengthening Programme’ (JSSP) formulated three key recommendations for the Kosovo Judicial Council and Kosovo* Prosecutorial Council regarding the development of statistical reports and dashboards that will be...
Improving the training curricula of the Justice Academy in Kosovo* with CEPEJ standards
On 21 January 2020, the CEPEJ expert Ms Marina Naumovska met with the newly-appointed director of the Justice Academy in Pristina as well as the heads of the initial and continuous training programmes to discuss ways to improve its curricula with CEPEJ standards and methodology. The expert also...