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Teema: FW: Questionnaire on the independence of judges and of the judiciary
From: Secretariat Network of the Presidents [mailto:
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Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 1:44 PM
To: President DE;
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[email protected]; President CY; Petros Artemis; Info; Mari-Liis Lipstok;
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Subject: Questionnaire on the independence of judges and of the judiciary
Dear President,
Please find attached a questionnaire that was developed by the Directorate-General for Justice of the European Commission in cooperation with the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary (ENCJ).
The objective of the questionnaire is to collect factual information on certain structural guarantees for judicial independence, which cover certain guarantees for the independence of judges and for the independence of the judiciary. The first set of questions aims to collect information on which authorities have the power to deliver the main decisions on human and financial resources in the Judiciary. The second set of questions aims to collect: 1) factual information on structural guarantees regarding certain situations in which judicial independence could be at risk, and, if available, 2) data on how often such situations occurred in practice in a given timeframe.
Depending on the results of the questionnaire, Directorate-General for Justice will consider how the data could be used in the context of the EU Justice Scoreboard. In the last few weeks, nearly all ENCJ members already provided replies to the questionnaire (around 20 Member States). For remaining countries, we wonder whether the Supreme Courts could provide replies due to their role in safeguarding judicial independence.
We would kindly ask you to provide replies to the questionnaire prior to the 3rd of February 2014 to
[email protected] <mailto:
[email protected]>
If you require any clarifications please, do not hesitate to contact Joze Strus in the Directorate-General for Justice directly (
[email protected] <mailto:
[email protected]> ; tel.: 32 229-68992)
Many thanks for your cooperation.
Yours sincerely,
Dominique Hascher
Réseau des Présidents des Cours suprêmes judiciaires de l'Union européenne
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