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Justice at a click

European Union Information Challenges 2011 Zagreb, 25 October 2011 European Commission Tomasz Debski, European Commission, DG Justice Justice

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1. European e-Justice
2. European e-Justice Portal 3. Short and long term perspectives 4. European e-Justice and Croatia
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e-Justice what and why

Use of ICT in the area of Justice in order to: rationalise and simplify judicial procedures Help justice to be administered more effectively Improve access to justice - especially for individuals

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European e-Justice what and why

Creation of the European Single Market

Increase of cross-border relations within Europe

Consequent increase in transnational procedures

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European e-Justice what and why (cont.)

11.3 million non-national EU citizens residing in another EU MS About 10 million EU citizens have been involved in crossborder civil litigation Over half (56%) of EU citizens believe that it is either very or fairly difficult to access civil justice in another EU Member State
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Eurobarometer 2010

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The added value of European e-Justice

Facilitate access to justice, especially in cross-border proceedings Provide Citizens, Businesses, the Judiciary and Legal Practitioners with a single point of access to information, exchange of data and existing ICT systems Catalyst of enabling and streamlining the interconnection of national e-Justice systems

Contribute to the overall European Judicial Area

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Some of the guiding principles for European e-Justice

Decentralised approach One-stop shop approach - provision of single point e-services Modular, step-by-step Ambitious! Inclusive in nature (many actors): for all MS Multilingual: ALL official languages of the EU

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Institutional background

Commission Communication: Towards a European strategy on eJustice May 2008

EUROPEAN E-JUSTICE Council European

European eJustice Action Plan November 2008

LEGAL BASIS 2012

Parliament Resolution on eJustice December 2008

Stockholm Programme adopted by the EU Parliament December 2009

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First major milestone for European e-Justice European e-Justice Portal went live on 16 July 2010
https://e-justice.europa.eu

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The Portal roles and actors

Decisions: Member States (Council) Development: European Commission General ownership of pages: shared MS/COM Page ownership: depending on content
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The Portal - technology behind it

How we think: Decentralise as much as possible Store as little personal data as possible Security and privacy by design Distributed architecture scalability in view of growth Proven commercial off-the-shelf products (J2EE - JBoss, MySQL/Oracle, Alfresco CMS) How we communicate: Service-oriented architecture (SOA) - XML, SOAP/WSDL webservices (or potentially CORBA)
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The Portal Release 1

Focus on information - 12,000+ pages of content in 22 EU official languages Online dynamic forms concerning European civil instruments

Several features for the registered users

Custom based Content Management System Sophisticated Portal Management Module
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The Portal Release 2 (to be live in two weeks time)

New homepage Revamped user interface (UI) Accessibility improvements IDOL 7 search engine and improved search capabilities New online forms accompanied by the Wizard Victims and Defendants rights factsheets

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The Portal future releases (short term 2011/2012)

Content wise European Judicial Network in Civil and Commercial Matters website migration (already spring 2011) Judicial ATLAS migration Search in external (justice related) repositories Various improvements + content items

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The Portal future releases (short term 2011/2012)

Dynamic functionalities Find a lawyer Find a notary Insolvency registers interconnection European Case Law Identifier (ECLI) search interface Court database

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The Portal future releases (longer term)

Dynamic functionalities Find a bailiff Translators and interpreters database Interconnection of business registers Interconnection of land registers

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Our biggest challenges

The es we need for e-Justice: e-ID so that users can authenticate e-Signature for judicial proceedings e-Payment for payment of court fees or during judicial procedures (small claims, etc.) e-Delivery (exchange of documents) EU-wide interoperability

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e-CODEX (e-Justice Communication via Online Data Exchange)

Largescale ICT policy support programme
15million value Began January 2011, three-year duration Consortium members: 14 MS: AT, BE, CZ, EE, FR, DE, GR, HU, IT, MT, NL, PT, RO, ES and TU, CCBE and CNUE
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e-CODEX is supposed to:

Establish common specifications for an interoperability layer Come up with building blocks reusable by all Collaborate with and reuse results of previous major pilot projects (e.g. STORK, PEPPOL, etc.) Be compliant with the EU legal framework Provide solutions which must be non-discriminatory, generally available and interoperable.

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SUMMARY
The Portal aims to
Become a one stop electronic shop on all justice-related matters Interconnect existing national IT justice applications, registers and databases Re-use and link to existing information Serve diverse stakeholders on EU level

It does not aim to

Replace existing national solutions or any registers or databases Centralise data more than necessary Replace existing (offline) procedures or practices
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European e-Justice and Croatia

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Contact us

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Tomasz.Debski@ec.europa.eu
JUST-E-JUSTICE@ec.europa.eu
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Any questions?

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