European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) releases its Evaluation Report on European Judicial Systems. On this occasion, the main trends of the report will be presented to the Ambassadors, the Permanent Representations to the Council of Europe and representatives of the Council of Europe's highest authorities.
The Report is based on 2022 data and concerns 44 member States of the Council of Europe, as well as two observer States to the CEPEJ, Israel and Morocco. This tenth biennial evaluation cycle remains faithful to the CEPEJ's process, undertaken since 2004, of evaluating the judicial systems of Council of Europe member States and some observer States.
The Report 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 its quality.
From this new CEPEJ report you will learn, for example, that on average in Europe, an administrative case will be dealt with in 741 days through three court instances, a civil case in 591 days and a criminal case in 344 days, or that in Europe there are 57% female judges but 42% female court presidents, that the gross salary of judges is on average 2,5 times higher than the average national salary at the beginning of their career and 4,9 times higher at the end of their career, that access to courts is free in only three member States, or that European countries spend on their judicial system an average of 85,4 € per inhabitant (7,31 € more than in 2020) and 0,31% of GDP.
The Report is composed of three complementary parts:
- The first part "General analyses" presents European trends on key topics concerning the judicial systems: budgets, professionals, access to justice, efficiency and quality, and information and communication technologies. It also highlights good practices developed in some judicial systems.
- The second part "Country profiles" presents key data and indicators for each country, making it possible to situate a state within the European context by comparing its key data with the European medians. The country profile contains also a synthetic analysis of the most notable elements of each judicial system.
- The third part "CEPEJ-STAT" is the dynamic database which contains all qualitative and quantitative data collected by the CEPEJ since 2010. It also includes the comments which accompany the data, allowing for a better understanding of the specificities of each judicial system.
