A French-Slovenian twinning project for the establishment of a Centre for Education in Judiciary was officially launched on Monday. "The project is also important for dealing with the hefty backlog of pending cases," Justice Minister Lovro Sturm told the press.
According to Sturm, the project does not include only judges and prosecutors, but also other staff, with the more experience judges to become lecturers.
The French head of the project Eric Maitrepierre said that a very ambitious project was launched, which Slovenia has prepared similarly to most other EU member states.
The 2004 changes to the act on courts included restructuring and the establishment of a Centre for Education in Judiciary.
The main goal of the project, carried out in cooperation with the French Ecole Nationale de la Magistratur, is to reorganise the existing centre which was founded within the Supreme Court in 1998 into an independent unit of the Justice Ministry.
The project, which is a part of a programme of the European Commission, is to ensure facilities for the new centre, legal status, internal regulations, administrative staff and experts, and set up the programme with a special focus on the EU and domestic law.
The Slovenian and French justice ministries signed the deal on the EUR 700,000 project in February. The permanent advisor on the project at the Justice Ministry is Francois Touret de Coucy, who took over the post on 3 April and is to stay in Slovenia for a year.
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