The budget of the judiciary in Estonia Marko Aavik Ministry of Justice of Estonia/ Deputy Secretary General 07.11.2017
Courts acitvity-based budgeting Based on 5-year strategic plan All the projects, activities and requests for funding have to be in consistent with the strategic plan and support the goals agreed
Perfomance-based budgeting mainly related to proceeding time vary by case type measured by statistics PROCEDURAL GOALS new position judicial clerk higher salary for qualified staff principles and procedure for performance based remuneration PERSONNEL-RELATED GOALS structural changes to the court office improvement of the model for the delivery of judicial documents ORGANISATIONAL GOALS Pilot started in the biggest court in 2013-14, 2015-2016 in all courts Based on agreement of goals between chairman and director of the court and the Ministry of Justice Agreements evolved from statistics and negotiation, keeping in mind the goals and taking into account last statistics and specific problems in different courts Courts had quarterly reporting obligation
Accrual-based budgeting From 2018 all third persons costs (for example postal service, expertise costs) in courts are accrual-based This means- courts don’t have fixed funding for these costs Ministry has a possibility to transmit 3% of the last years funds to the next year
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