European e-Justice Portal

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The European Justice Portal (also known as E-Justice or E-Justice for short) is an Internet portal of the European Union .

It is intended to enable simple and standardized access to the e-government services and information offered by the European Union and the member states of the Union .

Background and goals

The Justice and Home Affairs Council decided in June 2007 that further discussions should take place with a view to the increased use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the judiciary, in particular through the creation of a European portal.

The basis for the European e-Justice portal was then the specifications in the multi-annual action plan 2009-2013 for European e-Justice. The aim was to develop a European e-Justice portal. This is to be the only European access point for electronic access to legal information, judicial and administrative bodies, registers, databases and other services. In addition, the linking of national central, commercial and company registers was seen as important. Particular value was and is attached to data protection. Through the development and operation of the European e-Justice Portal, citizens seeking justice, companies, lawyers, court clerks and mediators as well as other freelance workers and interested parties should be given the most central and comprehensive access possible to the information offered by the judiciary of the EU and the member states of the Union of a European judicial area.

The first version of the European e-Justice Portal went online on 16 July 2010 during the Belgian EU Council Presidency . It comprised around 12,000 websites and is constantly being expanded to include additional websites and functions as part of the overarching E-CODEX project . This bundles the e-justice systems of the EU member states from European and national websites and information on law and legal practice can be accessed via one access point.

The European e-Justice Portal is available in 23 official EU languages and is managed by the European Commission .

Content

The European e-Justice Portal is intended to facilitate general access to the law in the European Union and also serve as a communication platform. For example, it contains information on:

  • Working aids for courts and lawyers (e.g. ECLI ),
  • Jurisdiction of the EU,
  • Court organization of the EU member states (with Europe-wide jurisdiction finder for civil courts),
  • Land registers,
  • Assistance with a lawsuit,
  • Information for victims of crime,
  • Information on the legal professions in the EU member states,
  • Information on applicable legislation,
  • Information on training and further education offers,
  • Information on cross-border procedures,
  • Insolvency registers ( European insolvency register ),
  • Access to European and national legal databases (e.g. the European Criminal Records Information System ),
  • Access to European and national forms,
  • EU-wide finder for lawyers, notaries, court translators and interpreters, mediators (online since December 8, 2014),
  • Business register,
  • Glossaries and terminology database.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ OJ. C 75, p. 1, recital 1.
  2. ↑ Multiannual Action Plan 2009-2013 for European e-Justice . OJ C 75 of March 31, 2009, p. 1.
  3. ↑ OJ. C 75 of 31 March 2009, p. 1, recital 8.
  4. ↑ OJ. C 75 of 31 March 2009, p. 1, recital 8 ff.
  5. ↑ See e.g. B. Directive 95/46 / EC of October 24, 1995 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and the free movement of data (OJ L 281 of November 23, 1995, p. 31) and Regulation (EC) No. 45/2001 of December 18, 2000 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the institutions and bodies of the Community and on the free movement of data (OJ L 8 of January 12, 2001, p. 1.) and the Stockholm Program . See also the report of the European Parliament with recommendations to the Commission on e-Justice (2008/2125 (INI)), 2008.
  6. ↑ Press release on the e-Justice portal from July 15, 2010 by the European Commission, p. 2.
  7. ↑ According to legal notice ( Memento of the original of July 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Responsibility for the content and administration of the portal is shared by the European Commission and the individual member states of the European Union, but only the European Commission is responsible for data processing. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / e-justice.europa.eu
  8. ↑ Recital 20, lit. e), the Council Conclusions calling for the introduction of the European Case Law Identifier (ECLI) and a minimum set of uniform metadata for case law, OJ 2011 / C 127/01.
  9. ↑ The data of this European insolvency register are provided centrally by some EU member states via the European e-Justice portal. Not all EU member states are participating yet.
  10. ↑ Find a Lawyer (FAL) is a project of the European Justice Portal and the European Umbrella Association of European Lawyers (CCBE) - see also Information CCBE (in English).
  11. ↑ See Directive 2012/17 / EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of June 13, 2012 amending Council Directive 89/666 / EEC and Directives 2005/56 / EC and 2009/101 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the interconnection of central, commercial and companies registers
  12. ↑ Overview of the topics .