The Judicial Council, with funding from the European Union via the Technical Support Instrument, has initiated the implementation of a project aimed at enhancing the efficiency of the judicial system and the capacity for budget planning to carry out structural reforms. The implementation of the project is carried out by PricewaterhouseCoopers EU Services and the Directorate-General for Structural Reform Support of the European Commission, as a collaboration between the PricewaterhouseCoopers Latvia and strategic partners.
Over a period of 18 months, various activities are planned within the project — the development of a report on the current situation in the Latvian judicial system; the development of recommendations and a roadmap for the institutional reform of the judicial system; the development of a statistical model to assess the workload and budgetary aspects of the judicial system, as well as pilot of the methodologies, training, and a manual on judicial data collection, methodology and resource assessment.
The implementation of the project “Improving Judicial Efficiency and Budgeting in Latvia” began on September 6, 2024, and will continue until March 5, 2026. The first joint meeting of the parties involved in the project took place on October 18, 2024, to agree on further cooperation within the framework of the project.
On the project's management board, the Judicial Council is represented by Juris Siliņš, a member of the Judicial Council and the Chairman of the Zemgale Regional Court.
More information about the European Union's Technical Support Instrument is available on the Ministry of Finance's website.