Sitting of the Steering Committee of the EU budgeting programme "Support to the Justice Reform in Armenia" takes place chaired by Deputy Minister Armenuhi Harutyunyan

Sitting of the Steering Committee of the budgeting Project "Support to the Justice Reforms in Armenia" took place chaired by Deputy Minister of Justice Armenuhi Harutyunyan. During the sitting, the EU Technical Assistance Team presented the six-month report of the Project, as well as the activities envisaged for the upcoming 6 months.

Armenuhi Harutyunyan mentioned that positive progress was recorded in the sector of human resources management, a large number of trainings were held, and HRM manuals were developed for all the authorities.

Generally, the Deputy Minister highly appreciated the Armenia-EU collaboration and expressed hope to enhance the efficiency of collaboration in the future. Important measures, such as amendments to the legal memorandum and constitutional amendments — development of recommendations for the vetting process of acting judges — have been implemented in the framework of the collaboration with the EU.

Proposals and solutions on legislative amendments have also been developed; a study on constitutional and legal regulations has been carried out under the Project as well, to allow to use the independent administrative appeal boards which could mitigate the workload of courts for small cases, administrative cases of first instance, thus contributing to the introduction of alternative ways of dispute resolution in Armenia.

Support to the development of communication strategy for justice reforms has been provided within the scope of the Project.

The representatives from the Supreme Judicial Council, the Commission for the Prevention of Corruption, the Prosecutor General's Office, Justice Academy and EU delegation to Armenia participated in the sitting of the Steering Committee.