1. Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia Weaving the Network of Registers – e-Justice Budapest, June 14th 2010

2. Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia Carsten Schmidt, Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia, 14.06.2010 Why IT for Registrars and European e-Justice? 1.Increase of cross-border relations within Europe 2.Consequently increase of transnational procedures Eurobarometer: -in 2007 were 10 million people involved in transnational procedures -13 % of the population might be in the future

3. Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia Basic ideas access to existing information easy and quick exchange of data justice applications Carsten Schmidt, Ministry of Justice of North Rhine- Westphalia, 14.06.2010

4. Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia Institutional background  Foundation of the Working Party on Legal Data Processing (e-Justice) 2007  Conclusion of the JHA council (2807 / June 2007) Create an E-Justice system that should give access to citizens, economic operators, practitioners of law, judicial authorities and courts, which will benefit from available modern technologies. Carsten Schmidt, Ministry of Justice of North Rhine- Westphalia, 14.06.2010

5. Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia Institutional background May 2008 Commission: “Towards a European e-Justice strategy” November 2008 Council: “European e-Justice Action Plan” December 2008: Resolution European Parliament February 2009: Terms of Reference for the e-Justice Portal Carsten Schmidt, Ministry of Justice of North Rhine- Westphalia, 14.06.2010

6. Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia Goals  set up a European interface (E-Justice portal);  create the conditions for networking of the following registers: – criminal records – insolvency registers – commercial and business registers and – land registers Carsten Schmidt, Ministry of Justice of North Rhine- Westphalia, 14.06.2010

7. Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia State of play 2010 Information Citizen Practitioner Judiciary Going to court Family matters Legal aid Costs of proceedings Financial claims Mediation Crime victims Law Legal professions Justice Forum Judicial Atlas Taking of evidence Videoconferencing Business Business registers Financial claims Land registers Law Insolvency registers Cooperation in civil matters Judicial training Insolvency registers EBR EULIS EPO Video conferencing Identity management CR disclosure Applications Carsten Schmidt, Ministry of Justice of North Rhine- Westphalia, 14.06.2010

8. Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia Page ownership depending on content General ownership shared Development by European Commission Decisions by Member States (Council) Shared responsibilities Carsten Schmidt, Ministry of Justice of North Rhine- Westphalia, 14.06.2010

9. Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia Content sections Carsten Schmidt, Ministry of Justice of North Rhine- Westphalia, 14.06.2010

10. Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia Funding projects and COM co-financing e-Justice costly undertaking – demand for EU financing COM (JLS) so far by calls for proposals with e-Justice as a priority financing of solely national projects too (‘national projects aligned…’) COM (INFSO) pilot project on inter-operability in 2010 Carsten Schmidt, Ministry of Justice of North Rhine- Westphalia, 14.06.2010

11. Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia Funding projects and COM co-financing  D.I.M. – Distributed Identity Management  PEJA – ePayment for e-Justice Applications  EO-Forms – European Online Forms  e-CODEX – e-Justice Communication via online Data Exchange Carsten Schmidt, Ministry of Justice of North Rhine- Westphalia, 14.06.2010

12. Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia Consortium e-CODEX Participants Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, CCBE and CNUE Actively interested participants Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia Carsten Schmidt, Ministry of Justice of North Rhine- Westphalia, 14.06.2010

13. Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia E-CODEX / state of play  The general objectives of the Project has been described  The objectives per work package have been described  The structure of the work has been broken into 7 work packages 1.WP1 Project administration 2.WP2 Communication (including sustainability plan) 3.WP3 Piloting 4.WP4 Identity and Signatures (eID for natural and legal persons, roles, mandates and rights, eSignatures) 5.WP5 Exchange of documents and data and ePayment 6.WP6 Document standards 7.WP7 Architecture and Security Carsten Schmidt, Ministry of Justice of North Rhine- Westphalia, 14.06.2010

14. Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia The e-Justice pilot e-CODEX will likely be structured into 7 work packages Carsten Schmidt, Ministry of Justice of North Rhine- Westphalia, 14.06.2010 Identity eID for natural and legal persons, roles, mandates rights and eSignatures Transportation of documents and data in a secure way and ePayment Document standards Security Communication & Sustainability Project Management Architecture and Security Experimenting Pilots Civil Justice Criminal Justice Interconnection of Registers

15. Thank you for your attention! Budapest, June 14th 2010