Its opposition to the plans for shrinking administrative courts is expressed by the Association of Administrative Judges in its resolution, in which, among other things, it emphasizes the shortages of staff and the reinstatement of 13th and 14th salaries.

At the conclusion of the annual General Assembly of the members of the Association of Administrative Judges (ECN), a resolution was issued, which, among other things, stated the opposition of the administrative judges to the plans for shrinking administrative courts.

More specifically, the EDU resolution is as follows:

“In recent years, a series of” reforms “have been promoted to justice that implement the EU’s direction to make the pillar of investment pillar.

Central to these reforms is the redesign of the judicial map in the direction of the abolitions/mergers of courts or the conversion of courts into “telematics” to the cost – benefit logic.

Citizens’ judicial protection is downgraded by establishing new procedural burdens, further increasing the cost of the trial and promoting forms of out -of -court resolution of disputes.

Changes are being promoted to the organizational structure of the courts in the direction of their administration to resemble multinational business administration (introduction of management methods, a prospect of assigning part of the administration to TAXIKI technocrats, introduction of quasi -competition between courts, etc.).

The way the judges are evaluated and evolved with the emphasis, instead of the quality of their decisions, changes to the quantitative criterion, speed, course of their training, their digital skills, their administrative characteristics and their out -of -court duties, but also with the introduction of anti -scientific criteria such as the disappearance or undoing of their decisions.

Finally, the shortages of staff and infrastructure are great, and the housing conditions of many courts are unacceptable.

The Association of Administrative Judges indicates its opposition to the plans of shrinking administrative courts regardless of the form it will take and the terminology selected (abolition-compliance with courts/converting courts into “telematics”).

It claims to remove the existing procedural barriers to citizens in the administrative courts.

It calls on the Ministry of Justice to take into account the procedural proposals of the Association of Administrative Judges prior to the preparation of related bills, in particular, by the Union’s participation in the homes or other committees that prepare the relevant changes.

In this regard, it requires that the Association of Administrative Judges be called upon hearing every time a bill is being discussed in Parliament concerning significant changes in the law of administrative courts.

It claims a change in the way the judges are evaluated and evolved. The evaluation of judges should be related to their jurisdiction and not interfere with the criteria of the criteria irrelevant.

It claims a substantial reform of the constitutional payroll of judicial officials, which has been locked up at the levels of the crisis, as well as the reinstatement of the 13th and 14th salaries.

It claims the restoration of the pensions of judicial officers, the implementation of the Plenary of the Court of Auditors 1332/2023 and the abolition of the solidarity levy.

Finally, it claims full information on the planning of the introduction of artificial intelligence into justice and its orientation. The introduction of such a technological capacity should be used solely to assist the work of judges and judicial officials and in no case to replace some or in total of the judicial crisis. “