The Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjørn Jagland opened the European Conference of Judges: "Judicial Integrity and Corruption", to be held at the Council of Europe on 7 November 2017. This conference, organised by the Consultative Council of European Judges (CCJE) allowed to prepare a CCJE Opinion on this subject in 2018, taking into account the recommendations of the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) formulated on this subject as part of its recently completed 4th Evaluation Round. The President of the CCJE, Nils Engstad (Norway) and of the GRECO, Marin Mrcela (Croatia) took part in the debate on threats to the integrity of judges, ways to prevent corruption and breaches on the integrity of judges and to the role of the executive, legislative and judicial powers in this area.
- Programme of the Conference
- Remarks by Mr Thorbjørn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe
- Speech by Mr Mr Marin Mrčela, Vice-President of the Supreme Court of Croatia, President of the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO)
- Speech by Mr Alain Lacabarats, President of Chamber of the Cassation Court of France, Member of the CCJE [in French]
- Speech by Mr Mr Paul Maffei, President of the Cassation Court of Belgium, member of the CCJE [in French]
- Speech by Mr José Igreja Matos, Judge at the Court of Appeal of Porto, Portugal, President of the European Association of Judges (EAJ)
- Speech by Ms Aneta Arnaudovska, Judge, Director of the Academy of Judges and Prosecutors of "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”, Member of the CCJE
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