The Executive Board of the ENCJ is following with great concern the recent developments in Afghanistan. The Board herewith expresses its firm endorsement for the recent call for international support in Afghanistan by the International Association of Judges (IAJ). The Board would like to emphasise  the difficult situation of women judges who have expressed genuine fear in an uncertain and evolving situation. 

Brussels, 18 August 2021.

On 20 July 2021, the European Commission published its 2021 Rule of Law report - an annual assessment of both positive and negative significant developments concerning the Rule of Law in EU Member States, covering areas including the fight against corruption, the independence of the judiciary and media freedom.

The European Commission published the 2021 EU Justice Scoreboard on Thursday 08th July. 

At the General Assembly, organised online on 2 June 2021, the ENCJ adopted the following documents:

During an online meeting on 2 June 2021 the ENCJ General Assembly elected 3 new Board members:

• Ανώτατο Δικαστικό Συμβούλιο Διοικητικής Δικαιοσύνης/ Supreme Judicial Council for Administrative Justice of Greece
• Teisėjų Taryba of Lithuania
• Consiliul Superior al Magistraturii of Romania

They will join the remaining members of the Board 

The legal system and the judiciary that applies and enforces it have a wide-ranging impact on economic behaviour and thereby on the performance of the economy of
nations, as the economic literature shows. However, little is known about the underlying mechanisms and the extent of these effects. 

The European Commission has invited the ENCJ to contribute to the European Commission Rule of Law report. This project is meant to provide an annual assessment of both positive and negative significant developments concerning the Rule of Law in EU Member States. The reference period for the 2021 report is 2020. . 

On 8 December 2016 the ENCJ General Assembly suspended the observer status of the High Council for Judges and Prosecutors of Turkey as it  no longer complied with the ENCJ Statutes and was no longer an institution which is independent of the executive and legislature ensuring the final responsibility for the support of the judiciary in the independent delivery of justice.

On 27 October 2020 the ENCJ Board sent a letter to the European Commission in which it calls upon the Commisison to act in the case of the recent appointment of the President of the Supreme Court (Kuria) of Hungary. Click to go to letter 

Being part of the European Union’s judicial area, the judiciary of the Republic of Lithuania cannot stay on the outside reacting to the threatened independence of the judiciary of the Republic of Poland. Lack of such independence has already affected the mutual trust of courts of Poland and other European Union Member States.