E-CODEX

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E-Codex ( English e-Justice Communication via Online Data Exchange ) is a project of the European Commission to promote cross-border electronic access to the law of the member states for citizens and companies as well as electronic cooperation between institutions of justice within the European Union .

The E-Codex project began on December 1, 2010 and ended on May 31, 2016. Since then, it has been further developed with the “Me-CODEX” and “e-CODEX Plus” projects.

In order to ensure interoperability between existing, technically differently designed national IT systems , the European Justice Portal is creating a uniform infrastructure for direct communication between citizens and the courts.

use cases

  • The European procedures for small claims up to Euro 5000, - in dispute have been transferred to the Essen District Court in North Rhine-Westphalia for all district courts.
  • At the European order for payment (European Payment Order) to participate since 2013 Germany, Estonia, Austria, Greece, Italy and Poland.
  • The commercial registers of all EU member states have been linked in the European Business Register since June 2017 . The legal basis is Directive 2012/17 / EU. Information on companies that are registered in the Member States as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway can be obtained via the register. The directive was implemented in Germany with the law for the implementation of directive 2012/17 / EU with regard to the linking of central, commercial and company registers in the European Union of December 22, 2014.
  • In a European arrest warrant, the secure exchange of data with Belgium and the Netherlands is piloted in the field of international mutual legal assistance in criminal matters. The E-Codex infrastructure is also intended to facilitate the execution of a European arrest warrant as well as imprisonment and fines. The Evidence2 e-Codex project concerns the electronic exchange of evidence and started in February 2018.

The projects are managed by the Ministry of Justice of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia on behalf of the Federal and State Commission for Information Technology in Justice .

International coordination

As part of these pilot projects , the various issues can be tested and implemented in real life. This means many challenges, because there are not only different judicial and IT systems in the respective countries, but also conceptual differences in meaning, different roles and powers, the linguistic diversity of Europe and the differing understanding of legal technical terms and job titles, professional skills vary greatly within Europe .

Here, too, e-CODEX forms an important bridge. Different actors, different views, opportunities and risks, people who bring national and local peculiarities, differences and similarities, all these are aspects that must and must be taken into account in the e-CODEX project. This is to ensure that the solutions developed will be practicable and accepted.

National solutions should be linked with one another.

A working group of the European Court of Justice, for example, deals with legal terminology and has developed a multilingual comparative vocabulary collection with electronic translation, which is administered by the Translation Center for the bodies of the European Union .

In this way it is ensured that z. B. a form that a citizen fills out in their national language, which the recipient will receive in that language. The system thus ensures the transport and the correct translation of the form into the language of the recipient country.

Lean processes simplify legal access and also accelerate the enforcement of law, as in the example of the French couple the reimbursement of the loss.

Digital single market

Digital projects in the field of public administration are referred to as LSP (Large Scale Pilot Projects). The administration needed for its range of electronic services on a digital single market , for example in the collection of sales tax , as well as the private company technical solution components for cross-border situations. These are, for example, epSOS (e-Health), PEPPOL (e-Procurement), SPOCS (e-business service) and STORK (e-ID). These solution modules of the LSPs were also taken into account in e-CODEX. The wheel does not always have to be reinvented for cross-border issues. This is another reason why the open source solutions are an ideal approach. They can always be used and developed by interested parties.

The e-SENS project also started in 2013. The task of this project is that the existing solutions of all LSPs are further developed and used for further citizen services, created and firmly anchored. Technical bridge structures for electronic services are required for different cross-border issues. In this way, the EU is implementing the digital change to so-called e-government step by step .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ e-CODEX Justice Portal North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on November 1, 2018
  2. ↑ Me-CODEX website of the European Lawyers Foundation, accessed on November 1, 2018 (English)
  3. ↑ e-CODEX. Connecting the European e-Justice community Sustainability . Website of the European Networks of Councils for the Judiciary (ENCJ), p. 17, accessed on November 1, 2018 (English)
  4. ↑ European Justice Portal German website
  5. ↑ cf. e-CODEX. Connecting the European e-Justice community Technical infrastructure . Website of the European Networks of Councils for the Judiciary (ENCJ), p. 7, accessed on November 1, 2018 (English)
  6. ↑ EU eGovernment Action Plan 2016-2020: Accelerating the digitization of public administration Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, Brussels, April 19, 2016, COM (2016) 179 final, p. 8
  7. ↑ Regulation on the concentration of European procedures for small claims according to Regulation (EC) No. 861/2007 of July 19, 2017, GV. NRW. P. 692
  8. ↑ European proceedings for small claims: The Essen District Court is responsible for so-called "small claims" throughout North Rhine-Westphalia. Website of the Essen AG, accessed on November 2, 2018
  9. ↑ Order for payment procedure, European e-Justice Portal, accessed on November 2, 2018
  10. ↑ Directive 2012/17 / EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of June 13, 2012 amending Directive 89/666 / EEC of the Council and Directives 2005/56 / EC and 2009/101 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council in Reference to the linking of central, commercial and company registers . OJ L 156/1 of June 16, 2012.
  11. ↑ BGBl. I p. 2409
  12. ↑ law implementing the Directive 2012/17 / EU in relation to the interconnection of central, commercial and companies registers in the European Union website of the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection , September 7, 2017
  13. ↑ Evidence2 e-Codex website of the European Lawyers Foundation, accessed on November 2, 2018 (English)
  14. ↑ Project e-CODEX justice portal of the federal and state governments, accessed on November 2, 2018
  15. ↑ IATE (Interactive Terminology for Europe) European Justice Portal, accessed on November 2, 2018
  16. ^ Digital single market. Policy. Cross-border solutions website of the European Commission, accessed on November 2, 2018 (English)