1. The budget of the judiciary in Estonia
Marko Aavik
Ministry of Justice of Estonia/ Deputy Secretary General

2. 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

3. 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 ,
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

4. 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

5. Marko Aavik Marko.Aavik@just.ee
Thank You!
Marko Aavik