by Dan Alexe On 9 March 2015 the European Commission published the 2015 EU Justice Scoreboard to promote the quality, independence and efficiency of justice systems in the EU. Following the editions of 2013 and 2014, the 2015 EU Justice Scoreboard assists Member States and the EU in achieving more effective justice systems. The Scoreboard does not promote any particular type of justice system and treats all Member States on an equal footing. Whatever the model of the national justice system or the legal tradition in which it is anchored, timeliness, independence, affordability, and user- friendly access are some of the essential parameters of an effective justice system. The 2015 Scoreboard focuses on litigious civil and commercial cases as well as administrative cases in order to assist Member States in their efforts to pave the way for a more business- and citizen-friendly environment, Thus, the highest number of incoming civil, commercial, administrative and other cases per 100 inhabitants are recorded in Sweden, Denmark and Austria, with than 40 in each, while the lowest number, close to zero, is recorded in Luxembourg. Here, as on many other points, there are no data available concerning the UK. When it comes to the time needed to resolve civil, commercial, administrative and other cases (in days), the champion is Portugal, with around 1.000 days, with a large majority of member countries under 200 days. Portugal is also the country with the highest number of civil, commercial and administrative other pending cases. When it comes to the time needed to resolve insolvency, the champions are all Eastern European and Mediterranean: Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece and Slovakia all need between 3 and 4 years to solve such a case. At the other end are Denmark, Finland, Belgium with less than a year, and Ireland with less than half a year to put a end to an insolvency. Eastern European countries are also those with the lowest budgets allocated to courts (here as well no data was available for UK). Finally, in the majority of the Member States more than 20% of judges participated in continuous training on EU law or on the law of other Member States. This exceeds the 5% annual target of legal practitioners who need to be trained in order to reach, by 2020, the objective of 50%. In 2013, all Member States that provided data on training for judges reached the annual target.
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