The European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice of the Council of Europe (CEPEJ) presented, Thursday in Strasbourg, its 2020 report which assesses the judicial systems of 45 European countries and Morocco, as an observer member.
This is the second time that the Kingdom has taken part in the eight rounds of evaluation of the judicial system of the member states of the Council of Europe.
Morocco has the status of partner for democracy with the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and that of partner for local democracy of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the same European body, based in Strasbourg.
It is the first African and Arab country to participate in this evaluation round.
The CEPEJ report devoted a file to Morocco which deals in particular with the budget allocated to the judicial system, the conditions of recruitment and promotion of justice professionals, the organization of the judicial system, as well as the efficiency and the quality of the public service of justice offered to users.
The comparison between the countries is made in relation to the general European trend.
It shows that the Kingdom is devoting a significant budget to justice, recruiting more staff and making significant efforts to modernize the judicial system, in particular the use of information and communication technologies.
Regarding the indicators of the efficiency of the judicial system calculated in particular on the basis of the processing times of cases in the courts, the Moroccan file notes a good performance at the level of first instance judgments, with an average of 76 days compared to 200 days in Europe. These deadlines are nevertheless longer at the level of the Supreme Court: 680 days for civil cases, 307 days for criminal cases and 406 days for administrative cases, on a European average of 200 days.
During a virtual press conference, Jasa Vrabec, President of the CEPEJ Working Group, said that these data provide information on the performance indicators of the judicial systems in the countries concerned, but do not allow these systems to be judged or rated.
Responding to a question by MAP on the effectiveness of the Moroccan judicial system, Vrabec specified that the countries are evaluated in a voluntary manner, the objective being to have comparison indicators to improve.
Regarding Morocco, he affirmed that the indicators show that the Kingdom “spends more in justice, has more judges, prosecutors and lawyers and invests in information and communication technologies”.
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