Welcome
About us
ACA-Europe is a European association composed of the Court of Justice of the European Union as well as the Councils of State and the Supreme administrative jurisdictions of each of the members of the European Union. The supreme administrative jurisdictions of Albania, Montenegro, Serbia and Türkiye have an observer status, while those of Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom are invited to participate in the activities of the Association as guests. Thus, ACA-Europe is a unique network of Supreme Administrative Jurisdictions, that extends across 34 European states.
Our mission
The objectives of ACA-Europe are to obtain a better understanding of EU law by the judges of the Supreme Administrative Courts across Europe and a better knowledge of the functioning of the other Supreme Administrative Courts in the implementation of EU law; to improve the mutual trust between judges of the Supreme Administrative Courts; to foster an effectively and efficiently functioning of administrative justice in the EU; to provide exchange of ideas on the rule of law in the administrative judicial systems and, finally, to ensure access to the decisions of the Supreme Administrative Courts implementing EU law.
Mr Luigi Maruotti, President of the Council of State of Italy, handing over the Presidency of ACA-Europe to Mr Kari Kuusiniemi, President of the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland, who will exercise the Presidency in close collaboration with Ms Helena Jäderblom, President of the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden.
Next events
| 29 November 2024 | Paris, France, Seminar “Justices and Ethics” |
| 17-18 March 2025 | The Hague, the Netherlands, Seminar “Contributing to the quality of legislation” |
| 25 May 2025 | Helsinki, Finland, Board |
| 26 May 2025 | Helsinki, Finland, Seminar |
| 27 May 2025 | Helsinki, Finland, General Assembly |
| 9-10 November 2025 | Athens, Greece, Seminar |
Flash Info |
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13 June 2024 – President Kari Kuusiniemi’s address to the ENCJ General Assembly to mark the network’s 20th anniversary is available here. 27 May 2024 – Presentation of the leitmotiv of the Greek presidency 2025-2027 27 June 2023 – At the General Assembly in Naples, the Presidency of the Association was transferred from the Council of State of Italy to the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland.
5 January 2023 – In Memoriam Franco Frattini – March 14th, 1957-December 24th, 2022
27 December 2022 – Statement of the Italian presidency regarding the passing of President Franco Frattini It is with a heavy heart and great sadness that we share with you the following message of the Italian Presidency: Dear Colleagues, The President of the Italian Council of State and of ACA-Europe, Mr. Franco Frattini, passed away on Christmas Eve at the early age of 65.
30 June 2022 – Presentation of the tentative programme of the Finnish-Swedish presidency 2023-2025
1 March 2022 – Statement of the Board of ACA-Europe on Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine.
20 December 2021 – The Board of ACA-Europe endorsed the joint statement of the Network of the Presidents of the Supreme Judicial Courts of the European Union (NPSJC), the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary (ENCJ), the European Association of Judges (EAJ), and the Association of the Councils of State and Supreme Administrative Jurisdictions of the European Union (ACA-Europe) on the judicial Independence in reference to the situation in Afghanistan. The aims of the joint statement are to speak out for the judges in Afghanistan and to reiterate the universal values for judicial independence and solidarity among the judiciaries. |
Last Events
- Inari, 25-28 May 2024: Seminar “Mapping the multilevel protection of fundamental rights in European administrative courts”
- Zagreb, 19 February 2024: Seminar “Mechanisms of counteracting conflicting rulings from different domestic courts, the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights”
- Paris, 18 December 2013: Seminar “Soft law, legal norms and sources of law”
- Stockholm, 9-10 October 2023: Seminar “Preliminary rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union – from CILFIT to Consorzio”
- Vilnius, 21 and 22 April 2016: Seminar ‘The Protection of Legitimate Expectations in Administrative Law and EU Law’