Brussels, 22 November 2010: Meeting of the ACA-Europe Board

IMG 0826 The Association of Councils of State and Supreme Administrative Jurisdictions of the European Union (ACA-Europe) held one of its two annual Board meetings in Brussels on 22 November 2010. Mr Yves Kreins, the Secretary-General of ACA-Europe, gave an overview of the association’s activities, with a particular focus on projects connected with the databases managed by the association, working visits by judges, cooperation with the European authorities and the publication of the documents on ACA-Europe’s 22nd colloquium, which took place in Luxembourg in June and was led by the Administrative Court of Luxembourg in the person of its President, Mr Georges Ravarini, who is also one of ACA-Europe’s Vice-Presidents. The publication of the association’s 24th newsletter was also mentioned. The newsletter will concentrate on the work of the seminar to be held in
Brussels on 17 December 2010, which is titled “Asylum and immigration law: the national judge between national and European standards”. The updates made to the Tour of Europe following the seminar in Istanbul in late September 2009 were also presented. ACA-Europe’s scheduled activities for 2011 were discussed too: three seminars are planned for the year, with the first taking place in Dubrovnik in spring 2011 and looking at the establishment of a level of first administrative courts. The second seminar will be a seminar for the research and documentation services on a shared identification and metadata system for national databases and will be organised, with the support of the Council of the European Union, in an as yet unknown location. The third seminar is due to take place in The Hague in autumn 2011 and is set to examine the application of the European Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights. The association’s budget for 2011 was also discussed. Finally, there was an exchange of viewpoints on the creation of a European Law Institute (ELI), the principle of which is outlined in the STOCKHOLM Programme.

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