According to the European Commission for the effectiveness of justice, France spends 72.53 euros per year and per capita for its legal system, much less than Germany, which devotes 141 euros.
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Repair justice will take time. The figures comparing the means of justice and its functioning in the 46 States of the Council of Europe, published Wednesday October 5, remain cruel for France. According to the 2022 report of the European Commission for the efficiency of justice (CEPEJ), based on the data of the year 2020, France spends 72.53 euros per year and per capita to finance its legal system (excluding prisons, Judicial protection of youth and functioning of the ministry), where the European average is 78 euros. An average fired from below by the countries of central Europe.
compared to its direct neighbors such as Italy (82 euros per year and per inhabitant), Spain (88 euros) or Germany (141 euros), the gap is impressive. He did not fill despite the 10 % increase from 2016 to 2020 of the budget allocated to the tricolor judicial system. Because the means of justice have also increased in other European countries. The 26 % budget increase of the Ministry of Justice in three years (2021-2022-2023) should nevertheless begin to be seen during the next European study in 2024.
This observation reinforces the diagnosis made by the States General of Justice in July. But it is not certain that Emmanuel Macron’s promise to create 1,500 positions of magistrates during the five -year term will be enough to fill the delay. According to CEPEJ, France had 11.2 judges per 100,000 inhabitants in 2020, against 22 on average in Europe, and 3.2 prosecutors (against 11.8).
In addition, the other personnel, however essential to the functioning of justice such as clerks, civil servants and specialized assistants around the judge, are fewer than elsewhere. This may explain the difficulties of France, because this contradicts the rule observed by the CEPEJ according to which when each judge is assisted by a greater number of non -judges personnel, fewer judges are necessary.
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This is one of the challenges the French system is faced. “The team around the judge”, supposed to help them for legal research and prepare decisions, long announced as a solution to manage both mass litigation and extremely complex disputes, is slow to become a reality.
“The existence, alongside the judges, of a competent staff exercising well -defined functions and endowed with a recognized status is an essential condition for the effective functioning of judicial systems”, notes the CEPEJ. France has an average of 36 non -judges for 100,000 inhabitants, well below a European average located at 58. The consequence is a embolized civil justice whose effectiveness measured by CEPEJ is among the worst in Europe coverage rate and importance of business stocks.
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