Title: eJustice A brief overview about the European eJustice Portal Pilot and its recent developments Peter
1e-JusticeA brief overview about the European
e-Justice Portal Pilot and its recent
developmentsPeter Hubalek, Ministry of
Justice, AustriaCarsten Schmidt, Ministry of
Justice of North-Rhine WestphaliaSundsvall, 5
November 2009
2Basic Ideas for e-Justice
- The use of IT in the field of justice is in
permanent development. - From the mere access to information on laws via
Internet to the electronic communication with
persons involved in court proceedings there is a
wide range of possibilities of using IT at the EU
level. - More than 10 million people are currently
involved in cross-border proceedings. This figure
will rise. - There are many professional or private reasons
for these involvements.
culture
3Vision of e-Justice
- Most of these involvements cause to have
knowledge about the law of other countries, their
justice systems and their different national
legal facts. - e-Justice should provide personalized information
to the citizens and should integrate distributed
applications from a number of different sources. - It should help mastering the challenges of
cross-border proceedings by becoming the single
access point to law for the European citizens.
4The original e-Justice Programme
- In June 2007 the Justice and Home Affairs (JHA)
Council decided to develop at European level the
use of information and communication technologies
(ICT) in the field of justice, particularly by
creating a European portal. - This would help to rationalise and simplify
judicial procedures, would reduce procedural
deadlines and operating costs. Access to justice
would thus be facilitated.
5The original e-Justice Programme
- Main principles for the development of this
European Portal - The creation of a decentralized system with
interfaces (portal interconnection) - At the beginning the integration of existing
initiatives - Access for citizens, businesses, law
professionals, judicial authorities and courts. - Non-legislative nature
- Work should be carried out in an EU Council
working group
6The original e-Justice Programme
- Specific tasks were
- Connecting the following registers
- Criminal records
- Insolvency registers
- Commercial and business registers
- Land registers
- The creation of a standardized European payment
order - To promote and stimulate the use of
video-conferencing in cross-border as well as in
national legal procedures
7The Prototype of the e-Justice Portal
- It was identified that the insolvency registers
were perfectly suited to start with because of - Public access without authorisation
- Access is everywhere free of charge
- They exist all over Europe and are of wide
interest - So quick results are possible
- Goals of this prototype
- Integration of the German and Austrian insolvency
registers - The possibility to search in both (German and
Austrian) insolvency registers with one query - To give a hint, how an EU e-Justice Portal could
look like - To invite others to join the initiative
8Timeline of the Portal Prototype
9Extension of the Portal Prototype
Integrated insolvency registers
- Germany, Austria, Portugal,
- Slovenia, Italy, NL, Estonia,
- Latvia, Czech Rep
- Slovakia, Romania
Implemented functionality
- EU-wide search (in 11 insolvencyregisters)
- Enhanced search (for two countries)
- Multi-language support (two languages)
10Extension of the Portal Prototype
- Three Integrated translator databases
- Austria
- Germany
- Czech. Republik
- Preparations to connect the e-Justice Portal with
the European Business Register and the European
Land Information System (EULIS).
11Recent Developments
- On 2 June 2008 the Commission published "Towards
a European e-Justice Strategy - In June 2008, the Council invited the Working
Party on Legal Data Processing (e-Justice) to
examine aspects relating to the creation of a
coordination and management structure capable of
developing multiple projects on a large scale and
within a reasonable timeframe in the field of
e-Justice. - In November 2008 the European Council published
the European e-Justice action plan - In Mai 2009 the Council published the e-Justice
Roadmap and Baseline assessment.
12Roadmap
- 2807. meeting of the councilMinisters of Justice
and Home affairs June 2007 - Actionplan e-Justice 2009-2013
- Interconnection of insolvency register
- Interconnection of land register
- Integration of EULIS
- Interconnection of business register
- Integration of EBR
13Projects I
- Funding projects (program 2007)
- Interface specifications
- Integration concept
- Roles Rights Concept
- European Payment Order (1 step)
14Projects II
- Funding projects (program 2008)
- Distributed Identity Management (D.I.M.)
- Payment conception (SEPA)
- European Payment Order (step 2)
15Projects III
- Funding projects (program 2009)
- Videoconferencing (2 projects)
- European Online Forms (EO-Forms)
- European Payment Order (step 3)
16Further projects
- Funding projects 2010
- 75.000 500.000 EUR
- e-Justice Pilot project A
- max. 10 Mio. EUR
- (Interconnection and standardisation)
17 Projects Type A pilot
- Goal service pilots with interoperability as
the central theme aiming to demonstrate a
federated solution and borderless operation of
national systems - Outcome . to implement an open, common
interoperable solution with results widely
disseminated and available to all member states - Duration . typically 36 months with a pilot
service operating for 12 months - Response a proposal embracing existing
national activities and evaluated to the
published evaluation criteria - Scale implementation in 6-10 Member
States but with the potential to scale up to all
member states - Participants National administrations (relevant
National Competence Centres), service providers,
industrial stakeholders and users - Funding .. supports up to 50 of costs of the
effort to achieve interoperability Community
contribution available is 5-10M / pilot)
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1. European Payment Order
Static Content
OnlineApplication
MS projects
Preparatory work
DynamicForms
(STORK)
Feasibility Studies
(e-Signature)
2. Online Legal Aid
Static Content
OnlineApplication
Dynamic Forms
Preparatory work
(STORK)
Feasibility Study
(e-Signature)
3. Small Claims Procedure Online
Static Content
(DIM/STORK)
OnlineApplication
Feasibility Study
DynamicForms
(e-Signature)
4. Connection Translators/ Interpreters Databases
OnlineApplication
MS projects
Static Content
Preparatory work
5. Legal Glossaries / Semantic Tables
Static Content
Glossaries Creation
InterfaceSpecification
OnlineApplication
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6. Video-Conferencing
Bookingsystem
Static Content
Workflow analysis
DynamicForms
Static Content
Feasibility Study
7. Mediation
8. Service of Judicial Documents
Static Content
Feasibility Study
9. Online Payment of Procedural Costs
Static Content
MS Project
Portal integration
Static Content
Glossary
Portal integration
10. Connection of Insolvency Registers
Preparatory Work
Common WebInterface
MS Interface
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11. EBR Integration
Static content/Links
Integration analysis
Portal integration
Concept Analysis
Static content/Links
Integration analysis
Portal integration
12. EULIS Integration
Concept Analysis
New platform
13. Register of Wills
MS projects
Portal Integration
Feasibility Study
14. CriminalRecords
DIM/STORK
Concept analysis
Alternative to SYSTRAN solution integration
15. AutomaticLegal Translations
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16. Secure paperless communication
Concept analysis
17. Standardised access to case law
Static content
18. How to find a
22E-Justice for Europe
Videoconferencebooking
Concept project "Interface Specification"
European order for payment procedure V3.0
Concept project "Integration Insolvency Register"
Realisation ofElectronic Filing ERV ? EGVP
Concept project "Roles and Rights"
Concept project Electronic Criminal Record
European order for payment procedure V2.0
Concept project "Electronic Filing ERV ? EGVP"
23Questions?
24- Thank You for Your Attention! peter.hubalek_at_bmj.g
v.at - carsten.schmidt_at_jm.nrw.de