VENICE COMMISSION AND ITS ACTIVITIES

Prof. Dr. Arne Marjan Mavcic

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

• EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF CC

• CIS CONFERENCE

• SOUTH AMERICAN-SPANISH GROUP

• ARAB GROUP

• WEST AFRICAN GROUP

• ACCPUF

VENICE COMMISSION

• HISTORY

• TASKS

• ACTIVITIES

• ORGANISATION

• RESULTS

VENICE COMMISSION

• CONSTITUTIONAL ASSISTANCE

• ELECTIONS, REFERENDUMS, POLITICAL PARTISE

• CONSTITUTIONAL COOPERATION

• TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVITES

VENICE COMMISSION WORKING METHODS

• OPINIONS

• POLITICAL AGREEMENTS

• INTERPRETATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

• SUB-COMMISSION ON THE JUDICIARY

Sub-Commission on the Judiciary and National Judicial Reforms

• South Africa and Neighbouring Countries• Albania• Bulgaria• Bosnia and Herzegovina• Armenia• Georgia• Ukraine• Latvia• FYROM• Azerbaijan• Montenegro• Moldova• Kyrgyzstan• Tajikistan• Bolivia• Turkey• Hungary

Particular Judicial Reform Issues• South Africa and Neighbouring Countries (corresponding draft constitutional provisions, status of

judges, financial and administrative autonomy of the courts) • Albania (organisation of judiciary)• Bulgaria (criminal procedure, law on the judicial power, judicial system act, administrative court)• Bosnia and Herzegovina (judicial system, entity judicial cooperation, criminal law, municipal

courts in Mostar)• Armenia (penitentiary code, criminal code, administrative courts)• Georgia (disciplinary responsibility/disciplinary prosecution of judges)• Ukraine (status of judges, prosecutor, judicial system act)• Latvia (judicial power and corresponding constitutional amendments)• FYROM (prosecutor) • Serbia (election of judges, public prosecutor, organisation of courts, judicial council)• Azerbaijan (information on courts’ activities, civil code, criminal code)• Montenegro (state prosecutor, judicial council) • Moldova (public prosecutor)• Kyrgyzstan (law on the judicial power, status of judges, independence of judiciary)• Tajikistan (independence of judiciary)• Bolivia (prosecutor)• Turkey (judges and prosecutors)• Hungary (legal status, renumeration, organisation, administration)

THE VENICE WORLD CONFERENCE

• HISTORY

• TASKS