The European
e-Justice Portal
« Justice at a click »
Bogdan Dumitriu
IT Project Manger
Unit B2 - DG Justice
European Commission
Agenda
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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
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citizens
businesses
legal professionals
members of the judiciary
General Philosophy
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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
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
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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:
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Austria
The Czech Republic
Estonia
Germany
The Netherlands
Romania
Slovenia
Insolvency Registers
• Simple search: query all interconnected
registers
Member State Register
Name
Name
End User European e-Justice Portal
Member State Register
Name
Member State Register
Insolvency Registers
• Advance search: search interface built
dynamically for each register
« Searchable » Fields
End User European e-Justice Portal
Member State Register
Criteria
E-Services
• E-CODEX integration
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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
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Data protection
Interoperability
Translation
Different national approaches
E-Identification, E-Authorisation
Stakeholder diversity
Thanks for your attention!
https://e-justice.europa.eu
JUST-E-JUSTICE@ec.europa.eu