111025_European E-Justice Portal

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European e-Justice Portalhttps://e-justice.europa.eu

European e-Justice Portal« Justice at a click »

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



1. European e-Justice

2. European e-Justice Portal

3. Short and long term perspectives

4. European e-Justice and Croatia



e-Justice – what and why

• rationalise and simplify judicial procedures

• Help justice to be administered more effectively

• Improve access to justice - especially for individuals

Use of ICT in the area of Justice in order to:



• Creation of the European Single Market

• Increase of cross-border relations within Europe

• Consequent increase in transnational procedures

European e-Justice – what and why



• 11.3 million non-national EU citizens residing in another EU MS

• About 10 million EU citizens have been involved in cross-border 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

European e-Justice – what and why (cont.)

Eurobarometer 2010



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



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



Institutional background

Commission Communication:

Towards a European

strategy on e-Justice – May

2008

Commission Communication:

Towards a European

strategy on e-Justice – May

2008

Council European e-

Justice Action Plan –

November 2008

Council European e-

Justice Action Plan –

November 2008

European Parliament

Resolution on e-Justice –

December 2008

European Parliament

Resolution on e-Justice –

December 2008

Stockholm Programme

adopted by the EU Parliament – December 2009

Stockholm Programme

adopted by the EU Parliament – December 2009

EUROPEAN E-JUSTICE

LEGAL BASIS

–

2012

EUROPEAN E-JUSTICE

LEGAL BASIS

–

2012



First major milestone for European e-Justice

European e-Justice Portal

went live on 16 July 2010

https://e-justice.europa.eu



Page ownership: depending on content

General ownership of pages:shared MS/COM

Development:European Commission

Decisions:Member States (Council)

The Portal – roles and actors



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 web-

services (or potentially CORBA)



• 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

The Portal – Release 1



• 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

The Portal – Release 2 (to be live in two weeks time)



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

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

The Portal – future releases (short term – 2011/2012)



Dynamic functionalities

• Find a bailiff• Translators and interpreters database• Interconnection of business registers

• Interconnection of land registers

The Portal – future releases (longer term)



Our biggest challenges

The ‘e’s 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



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



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.



SUMMARY



European e-Justice and Croatia



• Personalise the Portal

• Receive notifications on latest updates

• Receive notifications on published news

Want to get more? Register in the e-Justice Portal to:



Contact us

https://e-justice.europa.eu

[email protected]

[email protected]



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