European Union Prize for Justice: Crystal Scales

Starting with 2005 the European Commission and the Council of Europe have awarded the prize: Crystal Scales of Justice.
 
To participate, is mandatory to fill all the eligible criteria, mentioned in the prize’s rules and then to apply and submit them to the European Commission or the Council of Europe. The competition is open to associations of legal professionals or other legal organizations responsible for justice affairs, courts etc. from European Union, having the goal to reward and highlights the innovative and efficient practices in the field of justice.

The global budget prize is: 109 million euro and the entire programme duration varies between 5 and 7 years.
He prize has been awarded in 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009 and for 2010 will be awarded next month.
This year the event will be on October 25th in Ljubljana (Slovenia), the day - October 25th - having a special importance for the justice, because represent The European Day of Civil Justice.
Last year, on June 5th 2009, the event has taken in Brussels and have been 4 finalists:

• European Criminal law and Human Rights Chamber (Netherlands)
• Mentor Scheme (Czech Republic)
• SAS – e-justice used in the Public prosecutor's office of the Land of Brandenburg (Germany)
• Voluntary work of convicts (Poland)

The price was won by Poland’s Central Board Prison Service with the theme: “Voluntary work of convicts in Poland” and the other three finalists have received, each of them, a special mention.
First time when the price started to be awarded, in 2005, the winner was a Finnland with theme: Quality project in the courts of the jurisdiction of the court of appeal of Rovaniemi.

Source: European Council website

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