Increasing Efficiency of Justice and Streamlining Competences of Different Jurisdictions

- Courts network optimised after careful gap analysis and impact assessment, with interests of efficiency and fairness duly taken into
account;

- consolidation of courts at various levels (in particular, creation of inter-district courts, consolidation of appeal regions)

- Increased use of court fees and other paid services to cover expenses of the justice sector; higher court fee rates in property and other
types of civil litigation, while retaining adequate degree of access to justice;

- Optimised administrative staffing of courts depending on workload of judges

- Problem of temporary workload fluctuations due to unforeseeable increase of cases in the court and staff turnover through the Mechanism
of seconding judges to other courts in place

- Improved regulation on obligatory preparatory stage in any type of proceedings, excluding certain types of proceedings where such a stage
is irrelevant for effective protection of rights for time reasons (e.g. proceedings related to election process)

- Procedural rules promoting efficiency, including fast-track procedures for small and uncontested claims, (some) administrative offences
and misdemeanours

- Administrative offences (strict liability offences) and misdemeanours dealt with by way of simplified procedural arrangements, while
providing minimum guarantees requisite for ‘fairness of criminal proceedings’

- Mechanisms in place to ensure timely resolution of disputes and counteract abuse of procedural rights through imposing effective
procedural restrictions on liable parties for failure (without good reason) to demonstrate ‘best effort’, provide or conceal evidence etc.

- Sound regulatory basis in place to apply means of alternative dispute resolution, including mediation, arbitration and conciliation;
enhancement of list of categories of cases to be resolved by arbitrators or to be considered by courts in simplified proceedings; effective
procedural mechanisms in place to prevent consideration of cases in absence of litigation between parties

- In criminal proceedings the decision of the jury can not be appealed.

- Improved the requirements for procedures for appeal and cassation complaints.

- Improved criminal procedure legislation to implement the procedure, depending on the extent of the offense.

- The possibility of failure in case of cancellation of the decision of the lower court, the case for returning to the court of lower level
than in exceptional circumstances when it can not be solved appeal or cassation, particularly because of serious procedural violations at
the lower level.

- Ability for party to withdraw or discontinue appeal at any stage

- On appeal in civil and administrative process, higher stamp duty and court fees than at 1st instance

- Reduced rights of 3rd parties in all types of process, including victim in criminal process, to intervene on appeal

- In case of reversal of lower decision, no remittals to lower court as matter of principle; new

- Exceptional nature of review at 3rd instance in all types of process

- Effective mechanisms in place to complain about failure of State to honour its obligations to judiciary and courts staff

- Projections for required facilities of courts and their foreseen structure and type supported by evidence from studies and reflected in
relevant policies

- Functional model of court premises in compliance with the level, specialisation and location, developed

Pilot projects on equipment of court premises in accordance with the developed functional model implemented

- Greater employment of public-private partnerships in provision of all services to courts

- Greater competition between various service providers

- Full electronic case management and tracking (before higher review instances), e-notification, e-summons, e-trial (in some cases),
e-payment, random case assignment, audio or video recording of all hearings, internal jurisprudence data-base information system,
legislative data-base information system

- Fully licenced electronic case management system, incorporating personal data protection (PDP)

- Developed and approved the action plans for salvation of the system data, and in the case of emergencies.

- Interoperability of IS with those of other State and non-State actors

- User-friendly websites of courts with search engines allowing to link search for legislation with search for practice of SC and other
higher courts under that legislation

- Automated or on-line systems for measuring user satisfaction