The European e-Justice Portal « Justice at a click » Bogdan Dumitriu IT Project Manger Unit B2 - DG Justice European Commission

Agenda European e-Justice European e-Justice Portal Interconnection Projects E-Services Challenges

European e-Justice – WHAT Focal point for access to justice information Implements citizens’ right of “Access to Justice”

European e-Justice – WHAT Raise awareness of existing cross-border instruments and facilitate their use Accelerate procedures and reduce costs

European e-Justice – HOW Multilingual information provided by the European Commission the Member States partner organisations

European e-Justice – HOW Interconnection of national registers and databases Provision of various e-Services to the benefit of citizens businesses legal professionals members of the judiciary

General Philosophy Single point for Justice e-Services Step by step approach Multilingual from day one Decentralised as much as possible Ambitious!

European e-Justice does not… Replace existing national solutions Centralise more than necessary Modify existing offline procedures and practises

European e-Justice Portal Facts and Figures over 20,000 content pages in 22 EU of the official EU languages 78,662 visits in May 2013 – upward trend 17 April 2012 European e-Justice Portal

Interconnection Projects Insolvency Registers Find a Lawyer Find a Notary European Case Law Identifier (ECLI) Business Registers Land Registers Registers of Translators/Interpreters

Insolvency Registers Interconnection of the registers of: Austria The Czech Republic Estonia Germany The Netherlands Romania Slovenia

Insolvency Registers Simple search: query all interconnected registers

Insolvency Registers Advance search: search interface built dynamically for each register

E-Services E-CODEX integration ECLI search Competent court database file claims to courts in MS online project of 14 MS, Turkey, CCBE and CNUE overall budget: €14 million e-Identification, secure electronic transfer, electronic signature ECLI search Competent court database

Challenges Data protection Interoperability Translation Different national approaches E-Identification, E-Authorisation Stakeholder diversity

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