Novinky - Justice 2009

The Justice and Home Affairs Council led by the Minister of Justice Jiří Pospíšil has achieved a general agreement on the framework decision on prevention and settlement of conflicts of jurisdiction in Luxembourg today.

The Justice and Home Affairs Council will meet on 6 April 2009 in Luxembourg. Minister of Justice Jiří Pospíšil and Minister of the Interior Ivan Langer will chair the Meeting.

The Minister of Justice Jiří Pospíšil signed The Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements of 30 June 2005 on behalf of the European Union under reservation of its future conclusion. This convention will bear a principal benefit for international business. It will change its entire practise and ensure that courts in each of the contracting states will respect agreements and recognise judgments of the particular courts which will be chosen by the businessmen on their own. The Czech Republic and the European Union have hereby joined the USA and other countries.

 The Minister Jiří Pospíšil is meeting with the Romanian Minister of Justice Cătălin Marian Predoiu and other representatives of the Romanian judiciary today and tomorrow. The main topic of the meeting is the evaluation of the European Commission on the progress of Romania in the area of elimination of insufficiencies in the fields of the justice reform and fight against corruption. The representatives of the Czech Ministry of Justice are also sharing experience with the Czech Presidency and reforms of the Czech legal system with their colleagues.