Since 2004, the CEPEJ has undertaken a regular process for evaluating judicial systems of the Council of Europe's member states. Its Working Group on the evaluation of judicial systems (CEPEJ-GT-EVAL) is in charge of the management of this process.
To facilitate the process of collecting and processing judicial data, an online electronic version of the Scheme has been created (accessible on CEPEJ-COLLECT). Each national correspondent can thus accede to a secured webpage to register and to submit the relevant replies to the Secretariat of the CEPEJ.
National replies also contain descriptions of legal systems and explanations that contribute greatly to the understanding of the figures provided. Easily accessible to all citizens, policy makers, law practitioners, academicians and researchers on CEPEJ-STAT, a genuine data base on the judicial systems of the Council of Europe's member states, they are therefore a useful complement to the report, although because of the need to be concise and consistent, it was not possible to include all this information in this report.
CEPEJ EVALUATION REPORT – EUROPEAN JUDICIAL SYSTEMS
New report to be published on 16/10/24
The Biennial evaluation report of the working group on evaluation of judicial systems (CEPEJ-GT-EVAL) aims to provide policy makers and justice professionals with a practical and detailed tool for a better understanding of the functioning of justice in Europe and beyond, in order to improve its efficiency and quality.
The report consists of three different and complementary parts:
The first part ‘General Analyses’ presents European trends on important themes for judicial systems: budgets, professionals, access to justice, efficiency and quality, information and communication technologies.
The second part, ‘Country profiles’, presents the key data and indicators for each country, enabling a country to be placed in the European context by comparing its key data with the European medians. The country sheets also contain a summary analysis of the most remarkable features of each judicial system.
The third part ‘CEPEJ-STAT’ is the dynamic database containing all the qualitative and quantitative data collected by the CEPEJ since 2010.
Link to the specific Studies of the CEPEJ on the Legal Professions - 2022 data
Contribution of the Notaries of Europe (CNUE), of the European Expert and Expertise Institute (EEEI), of the International Union of Judicial offiers (UIHJ)
This unique database allows you to find data related to judicial systems of Council of Europe Member states / entities and observers collected by the CEPEJ. These data, as well as the attached comments, are collected by the CEPEJ Secretariat already for many years via the network of National correspondents from Council of Europe member states as well as some observer countries.
The data presented are for the years 2010 to 2020, collected every two years.
The CEPEJ bi-annual exercise of evaluation of the judicial systems is based on the collection of data from States/entities, ensured by a national correspondent appointed by the State.
The national correspondent is the sole interlocutor of the CEPEJ Secretariat within the framework of the evaluation exercises carried out by the CEPEJ Evaluation Working Group (CEPEJ-GT-EVAL) (compositionand terms of reference of the GT-EVAL). Accordingly, only one national correspondent is appointed by each State/entity.
The network of all CEPEJ national correspondents is also a source of contacts between the different States/entities participating in the CEPEJ evaluation exercise.
The objective of the peer evaluation is to reinforce the credibility of the data collected in the framework of the evaluation exercise aimed at European judicial systems. It also also the opportunity for States in which the visits are conducted, to facilitate exchanges of experiences between the national judicial statistics systems, to share good practices and to identify common indicators.
Evaluation is carried out in 3 volunteer States in the timeframe of a period corresponding to an evaluation exercise.
Working Group on the evaluation of judicial systems (CEPEJ-GT-EVAL)
Link to the 2022 Evaluation Cycle (2020 Data) - Special file
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