 |
e-News 2018/1 |
Editorial |
||||||
Dear reader, The General Assembly of ACA-Europe on 15 May entrusted the Federal Administrative Court of Germany with the presidency of the association for the next two years. Before I begin to set out the contents of this presidency, I would like to express, again, my sincere gratitude to the Dutch presidency which we have had the honor and delight to enjoy for the past two years. Piet Hein Donner and his collaborators, supported by the Board and the General secretariat, have done a marvelous job. It should also be noted from the outset that ACA-Europe will continue and refine its successful measures to promote exchange between our administrative jurisdictions in Europe, such as the judge exchange programme and the legal databases DecNat and JuriFast. During the German presidency I wish to invite you to six seminars, four of which will be held in Germany and one each in Ireland and the Czech Republic. As far as the seminars in Germany are concerned, I intend to use this opportunity to introduce you to the administrative jurisdiction in Germany in a somewhat physical way. All seminars will take place in court buildings. You will visit the Administrative Court of Cologne – a court of first instance –, the Higher Administrative Court of the federal states of Berlin and Brandenburg – a court of second instance –, and the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig – the Supreme Court. The first seminar, in Cologne in December 2018, addresses the so-called ReNEUAL project. This label stands for a comparative approach to the development of administrative law in the European Union and administrative procedural law in the member states. It can be traced back to an initiative of the European Parliament and was then pursued by academia. Two interlinked seminars on the working methods and framework conditions of our daily work at court will follow. One seminar, in Dublin in March 2019, tackles the question of how our courts decide. The other seminar, in Berlin in May 2019, looks into the conditions for access to the supreme courts. It will take place back to back with a general assembly meeting. The fourth seminar, in September 2019 in Brno, examines whether there are sovereign acts which are not subject to judicial control and if so, which alternative control mechanisms may be in place. In April 2020 in Leipzig, the fifth seminar revives an old tradition of ACA-Europe to involve our legal documentation experts. The seminar focuses on the impact that digitalisation has on the work of our documentation departments and examines the potential and desirable interaction of JuriFast with the new data bases hosted by the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice. The colloquium, in May 2020 in Leipzig, returns to the ReNEUAL project, embracing the German presidency. It is accompanied by a final general assembly meeting. Dear colleagues, let me assure you that I am, as well as the judges and staff members of the Federal Administrative Court are, very much looking forward to the two years to come. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Klaus Rennert President of ACA-Europe, |
||||||
Colloquium |
||||||
|
The report on the colloquium in The Hague will be published on the ACA-Europe website and in the second edition of the e-news. |
||||||
Jurifast |
||||||
|
These decisions have been selected for you:
Remember, the Jurifast RSS feed can be obtained at the following address: http://www.aca-europe.eu/index.php/en/jurifast-en (possibility to subscribe to an RSS feed). |
||||||
Forum |
||||||
|
The forum of ACA-Europe presently has 218 members from 35 institutions. Since the last e-news, 4 new collective questions have been asked and 14 countries actively participated by providing 34 responses: Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Czech Republic. The following subjects have been discussed:
Access to the forum is reserved for the members of ACA-Europe, who can register for it at the following address: http://www.aca-europe.eu/forum/ |
||||||
Tour of Europe |
||||||
|
The Tour of Europe provides an analysis, in 76 points, on how the administrative justice system is organized in the different Member States of the European Union and Turkey. In 2017, ACA provided the translation, into English or French, of updates received from Romania, the Netherlands and Germany. In 2018, so far, an update for Belgium has been provided. All texts can be found on the association’s website, both in French and English. An item has been provided for in the 2018 budget to continue the translations of the updates of the “Tour of Europe” that are already on the website. In order to obtain the objectives, defined in the specific agreement between ACA-Europe and the European Commission, within the scope of the subvention granted by the European Union, member States which have not updated the available information since 2009 are warmly invited to do so by contacting the ACA Europe team at the following email address: anne-catherine.vangeersdaele@aca-europe.eu or benny.desutter@aca-europe.eu. Subsequent changes to the updated versions are also welcome. |
||||||
Judge Exchange |
||||||
|
This year, ACA has the possibility to allow 18 judges from its member institutions to participate to working visits of 12 days in any other member institution. Those working visits are rounded off with a report, written in English or French, that will be published on the ACA Europe website. On 15 May 2018, the General Assembly of The Hague approved the list of successful candidates for the judge exchange programme. The successful candidates, as well as the host institutions, have been notified by the General Secretariat. Contact address: anne-catherine.vangeersdaele@aca-europe.eu |
||||||
Members' News |
||||||
|
||||||
ACA News |
||||||
|
Grant 2018 The budget of the Association for 2018 is 489.393,00 Euros. It is funded at 80% by the Justice program of the European Union. The remaining 20% is coming from contributions of member institutions of ACA-Europe, including the contribution of the Presidency. The European Commission’s approval has been given on 15 March 2018 which means that the activities have been started up at that time. Specific agreement 2018 On March 15th, the Specific Agreement number - 800948 – ACA-EU_NETW_2018 was signed by the Secretary General and the European Commission. On 4 May 2018, the European Commission announced that, following the analysis of the final technical implementation report, the 2017 budget was accepted without exception. The European Commission pointed out that ACA-Europe produced reports and organised seminars which examined the functioning of Supreme Administrative Courts both when applying EU law and more generally, and which can contribute to promoting the consistency of case law in administrative law cases. According to the Commission, the Associations’ work contributes to the promotion of the rule of law and the effectiveness of national justice systems. The results of the questionnaire “on the powers and judicial activities of highest national courts in situations where judicial independence may come at risk” that ACA-Europe prepared, in close cooperation with the Commission, are expected to provide important insights for the preparation of the 2018 EU Justice Scoreboard. The Commission thanked the Association for its good cooperation and for the comprehensive final report. |
In this issue |
|||||||||||||||||||
Agenda |
|||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||
Analysis 2017-2018 |
|||||||||||||||||||
At the time of ACA-Europe’s application for a three-year grant addressed to the European Commission, the Association was invited to propose to conduct an annual survey on the collection, analysis, exchange and dissemination of information, good practices and recommendations on various topics of EU law. For 2017, the board opted to contribute to the EU justice scoreboard (“administrative justice” component). The results were presented during the session of the General Assembly in The Hague on the 15th of May 2018, and were published on our website. For 2018, the board has opted to continue contributing to the EU justice scoreboard, on the topic of “quality of judgments”. A first meeting of the working group on this topic is planned for the month of June. In 2018, the working group is strengthened by Italy. |
|||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||
|
|
