Members & Partners

Austria
website

Margit Wachberger

Member

Biography
BELGIUM
website

Ria Mortier

Member

Biography
BULGARIA
website

Borislav Sarafov

Member

Biography
CROATIA
website

Ivan Turudić

Member

Biography
CYPRUS
website

George L. Savvides

Member

Biography
CZECH REPUBLIC
website

Lenka Bradáčová

Member

Biography
DENMARK
website

Lasse Boje Nielsen

Member

Biography
ENGLAND & WALES
website

Stephen Parkinson

Partner

Biography
ESTONIA
website

Astrid Asi

Member

Biography
FINLAND
website

Ari-Pekka Koivisto

Member

Biography
FRANCE
website

Rémy Heitz

Member

Biography
GERMANY
website

Jens Rommel

Member

Biography
GREECE
website

Konstantinos Tzavellas

Member

Biography
HUNGARY
website

Gábor Bálint Nagy

Member

Biography
ITALY
website

Pietro Gaeta

Member

Biography
IRELAND
website

Catherine Pierse

Member

Biography
LATVIA
website

Armīns Meisters

Member

Biography
LITHUANIA
website

Nida Grunskienė

Member

Biography
LUXEMBOURG
website

John Petry

Member

Biography
MALTA
website

Victoria Buttigieg

Member

Biography
NORTHERN IRELAND
website

Stephen Herron

Member

Biography
NETHERLANDS
website

Edwin Bleichrodt

Member

Biography
POLAND
website

Waldemar Żurek

Member

Biography
PORTUGAL
website

Amadeu Guerra

Member

Biography
ROMANIA
website

Alex Florența

Member

Biography
SCOTLAND
website

John Logue

Member

Biography
SLOVAC REPUBLIC
website

Maroš Žilinka

Member

Biography
SLOVENIA
website

Katarina Bergant

Member

Biography
SPAIN
website

Teresa Peramato Martín

Member

Biography
SWEDEN
website

Katarina Johansson Welin

Member

Biography

Observers

Office of the Public Prosecutor of Liechtenstein​
website

Frank Haun

Prosecutor General

Biography
Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland

Stefan Blättler

Member

Biography
General Prosecutor Office of Moldova
website

Alexandru Machidon

Head International Legal Assistance

Biography
General Prosecution Office of Albania

Olsian Cela

Head International Cooperation

Biography
European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO)

Laura Codruța Kövesi

Head of the EPPO

Biography
International Association of Prosecutors
website

Juan Mahiques

President

Biography
Academy of European Law (ERA)
website

Jean-Philippe Rageade

Director

Biography
Supreme Public Prosecution Office of the Republic of Serbia

Zagorka Dolovac

Prosecutor General

Biography
European Judicial Training Network

Ingrid Derveaux

Secretary General

Biography
The Supreme State Prosecutor's Office of Montenegro
website

Milorad Marković

Cabinet of the Supreme State Prosecutor

Biography
Ibero-American Public Prosecutors Association

Francisco Jiménez-Villarejo

Head of the International Cooperation

Biography
AUSTRIA

Margit Wachberger

General Prosecutor

Mag.a Margit Wachberger was born in 1963 in Vienna.

Professional experience
since 11/2023 – ProcuratorGeneral, Chair of the Weisungsrat
11/2020-10/2023 – Senior Deputy Procurator General
01/2007-10/2020 – Deputy Procurator General
01/2004-12/2006 – Judge at the Vienna Higher Regional Court of Appeal
09/1998-12/2003 – Public Prosecutor at the Vienna Public Prosecutor’s Office
02/1995-08/1998 – Public Prosecutor at the Public
Prosecutor’s Office at the Vienna Juvenile Court
04/1991-01/1995 – Judge at the District Court for Criminal Matters in Vienna
06/1987-03/1991 – Candidate Judge
04/1986-05/1987 – Judicial Trainee at several Austrian trial and appellate Courts

Education
10/1981-01/1986 – Lawschool, University of Vienna,  Degree: Magistra Iuris
09/1969-06/1981 – Primary school and high school in Vienna,

Specialistareas
Criminal law, Media law

Lecture activities
Special areas of formal and substantive criminal law

BELGIUM

Ria Mortier

Procureur général près la Cour de cassation

Education

Master in Law (MCL), Ghent University, 1984
Master in Criminology (MCL), Ghent University, 1986

23 May 2025 – present President of the Network of Public Prosecutors or equivalent institutions at the Supreme Judicial Courts of the Member States of the European Union (NADAL-Network) 

19 April 2024 – present Prosecutor general at the Court of cassation of Belgium since 

2019 – 2024 First advocate general at the Court of cassation of Belgium 

2007 – 2019 Advocate general at the Court of cassation of Belgium 

2024 – present Advocate general at the Benelux Court 

2019 – 2024 Deputy advocate general at the Benelux Court 

2013 – 2014 Past president of the High Council of Justice of Belgium 

2012 – 2016 Past president of the appointment and designation commission of the High Council of Belgium 

2008 – 2012 Member of the appointment and designation commission of the High Council of Belgium 

2013 – 2016 Past member of the Executive board of the European network of Councils for the Judiciary (ENCJ)

2011 – 2016 Past representative of the Belgian High Council of Justice in ENCJ 

BULGARIA

Borislav Sarafov

General Prosecutor

Education

1994
Academy of the Ministry of Interior – Sofia

1987
27 Secondary Polytechnic School “Acad. G. Karaslavov” – Sofia

Professional experience

01.11.1994 – 26.01.1996
Inspector for Administrative Activities at the General Directorate of Penitentiary Institutions

01. 02. 1996 – 18. 02. 2001
Investigator at Sofia District Investigation Service

19.02.2001 – 31.05.2001
Deputy Head of Regional Prosecutor’s Office – Slivnitsa

01.06.2001 – 05.11.2006
Prosecutor at Sofia District Prosecutor’s Office

06.11.2006 – 28.02.2007
Prosecutor at the Supreme Administrative Prosecutor’s Office – Judicial Department

01.03.2007 – 29.06.2011
Prosecutor at the Supreme Cassation Prosecutor’s Office – Countering Organized Crime Department

30.06.2011
Head of the Specialised Prosecutor’s Office of Appeal

18.01.2013
Deputy Prosecutor General of the Republic of Bulgaria

18.12.2017
Director of the National Investigation Service

15.12.2022
Second term of office as Director of the National Investigation Service

16.06.2023
Elected Acting Prosecutor General of the Republic of Bulgaria by the Prosecutors’ College of the Supreme Judicial Council

Additional skills, knowledge and achievements

2002 – 27.05.2005
Completed training course under the PHARE Twinning Project “BG 0203.06” – “Strengthening the institutional capacity of the Prosecution to fight organized crime, economic crime and corruption”

07.07 – 09.07.2004
Workshop for leaders of the Prosecutor’s Office under the programme “Strengthening the Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Bulgaria”

19.01 – 20.01.2006
Workshop on “Instruments for International Cooperation in Criminal Matters in the European Union”

04.10 – 06.10.2006
Workshop for trainers “Training of magistrates and officials under the new Criminal Procedure Code”

11.10 – 13.10.2006
International workshop “Special techniques used in the fight against organized crime and corruption”

11.06 – 15.06.2007
International Workshop on “Combating Money Laundering and Organized Crime”

14.05 – 24.05.2012
US State Department , Training on “Combating Organized Crime”, held at the FBI and the Federal Prosecutor’s Office

18.06 – 22.06.2012
US Drug Enforcement Administration, Training on “Money Laundering and Forfeiture of Assets Acquired from Drug Trafficking”

15.10 – 20.10.2012
Study visit to the Kingdom of Spain, National Court and the Prosecutor’s Office for the fight against terrorism and organized crime

Awards

Protocol No. 30/09.10.2002 official gratitude from the Supreme Judicial Council for high professional and moral qualities

By order No. 402/20.02.2009 of the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Bulgaria for exceptional efforts in the fight against organized crime and a significant contribution to the positive conclusions in Fourth report of the European Commission on Cooperation and Verification Mechanism.

By order No. 678/02.03.2012 of the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus for high performance in the work

CROATIA

Ivan Turudić

General Prosecutor

Mr. Ivan Turudić, univ.spec.crim, is the State Attorney General of the Republic of Croatia since 27.5.2024.

Before elected for State Attorney General, he was a criminal judge for more than thirty years. He was serving as a judge and president of court at the municipal court for seven years, then he was serving for twenty years as a investigative judge, first instance judge specialised for corruption, organised crime and war crimes, and as a president of court, in two terms, at the County Court in Zagreb, and lastly, for three and a half years as an appellate judge at the High Criminal Court of the Republic of Croatia.

During that period, he held the functions Assistant Minister of Justice, and President of the State Judicial Council, as well.

He completed his postgraduate studies with thesis: “Seizure of proceeds of crime” and obtained title of university specialist in criminal investigations.

Mr. Turudić is author of the book „European Arrest Warrant with examples from case law “, as well as numerous scientific and specialist articles on various criminal law topics.

CYPRUS

George L. Savvides

General Prosecutor

Mr. George L. Savvides was born in 1959. He resided in Famagusta until the Turkish invasion in 1974. He has been living in Limassol since.

He excelled at the Lanition secondary school of Limassol. Having completed his military service, he studied Law at Exeter University in the United Kingdom where he received the title of Bachelor of Laws (LL.B. Hons.). He then continued his studies in London and became a Barrister as a Member of The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple.

He actively practiced law for 35 years as the founder and managing partner of a law firm with offices in Limassol and Nicosia and is a member of the Famagusta Bar Association and the Cyprus Bar Association. He is also a member of the International Bar Association (IBA) and has served as Chairman and Vice-Chairman of various subcommittees of this international body. He served as a Minister of Justice and Public Order of the Republic of Cyprus from May 31, 2019 until June 29, 2020, date when he was appointed Attorney General by the President of the Republic, Mr. Nicos Anastasiades.

Mr. Savvides was a medallist of Pan-Hellenic athletic games and also a holder of a Cyprus record as a high jump athlete whilst a member of Gymnastic Club Evagoras of Famagusta. He later served as the Secretary of the Club. He has been a member of National Cyprus athletics team for a number of years.

He is married and a father of three children.

CZECH REPUBLIC

Lenka Bradáčová

General Prosecutor

Education

1988–1992 – Grammar school in Roudnice nad Labem

1998 – graduated from Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague – The Prof. JUDr. Karel Engliš Prize awarded by the Rector of Charles University in Prague for the best students of social sciences

2002 – completion of doctoral studies at the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague, field of public law

 

Professional Career

1998 – started legal trainee practice at the District Public Prosecutor’s Office in Litoměřice

2001 – appointed as public prosecutor at the District Public Prosecutor’s Office in Litoměřice

2003 – appointed as public prosecutor at Regional Public Prosecutr’s Office in Ústí nad Labem

2003 – appointed as Deputy to Regional Public Prosecutor in Ústí nad Labem

2006–2007 – internship at the Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic

30/7/2012 – appointed as High Prosecutor in Praha

8/1/2025 – appointed as Prosecutor General effective from 1/4/2025

 

President of the Union of Prosecutors of the Czech Republic from March 2008 to March 2014, when she was appointed Honorary President of the Union of Prosecutors

She specializes in legislation, white-collar crime, criminal procedure law, education in the prosecution system

ENGLAND & WALES

Stephen Parkinson

General Prosecutor

Stephen Parkinson is the Director of Public Prosecutions. He was appointed by the Attorney General and took up post on 1 November 2023.

Stephen studied law at University College London, before qualifying as a barrister in 1980 and as a solicitor in 2005.

He began his legal career in 1984 as a junior prosecutor at the Department of the Director of Public Prosecutions, which became the CPS in 1986. He progressed to Assistant Branch Crown Prosecutor roles and later established and led the CPS’ International Co-operation Unit.

Stephen subsequently held roles across Government, including positions in the Treasury Solicitor’s Department, where he was responsible for most of the Government’s regulatory litigation, and the Department of Trade and Industry, where he headed a team providing legal advice in live company investigations. For four years from 1999, Stephen was Deputy Head of the Attorney General’s Office.

For the past 20 years, Stephen has been a practising defence lawyer. He became Head of Criminal Practice at the law firm Kingsley Napley in 2006, going on to become Senior Partner at the firm in 2018. Representing a range of clients, Stephen developed an extensive practice advising on, or undertaking, investigations for organisations, companies, and individuals.

ESTONIA

Astrid Asi

Prosecutor General

Astrid Asi has served as the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Estonia since 2 April 2025. The Government appoints the Prosecutor General for a term of five years.

The Prosecutor General leads the daily operations of the Prosecution Service, including coordinating the work of prosecutors and criminal proceedings across the country. This position serves as a strategic link between legislation, the administration of justice, and law enforcement.

From 2012 to 2025, Astrid Asi worked as a judge, including serving as the head of the Viru County Court and the Harju County Court. Prior to her judicial career, she served in the Office of the Prosecutor General as an assistant prosecutor, in the Northern District Prosecutor’s Office as a district prosecutor, and at the Ministry of Justice as Head of the Division of Criminal Law and Procedure.

 

FINLAND

Ari-Pekka Koivisto

General Prosecutor

Ari-Pekka Antero Koivisto was born on 18 November 1964 in Kankaanpää. Currently he resides in the city of Espoo. He lists his hobbies as reading, history, forestry, berry and mushroom picking, hunting, orienteering and cross-country skiing.

Education and work history

  • Graduated 1983 from Kankaanpää High School.
  • Military service 1983–1984, Satakunta Artillery Regiment. Ranked second lieutenant (Res.), today major (Res.)
  • Studies in political science 1985–1986, University of Helsinki
  • Master of Laws 1990, University of Helsinki
  • Court trainee 1991–1992, District Court of Ikaalinen
  • Prosecutor 1992–1995, capital region
  • UN peacekeeper, Military Legal Advisor and Major 1994–1995, Finnish UNIFIL battalion in Southern Lebanon
  • Chief Superintendent and Senior Detective Superintendent 1995–1996, Police department of the Provincial government of Uusimaa
  • Specialist Prosecutor of financial crimes 1996–2002, Vantaa
  • State Prosecutor 2003–2011, Office of the Prosecutor General
  • Chief of department and Government Counsellor, Chief lawyer of the Finnish Border Guard 2011–2019, headquarters of the Finnish Border Guard
  • Chief of department and General Director 2020–2022, Department for Criminal Policy and Criminal Law in the Ministry of Justice
  • Prosecutor General 2022 –
FRANCE

Rémy Heitz

Procureur général près la Cour de cassation

Rémy Heitz was appointed as the Prosecutor General at the Court of Cassation on July 3, 2023.

He also chairs the section of the French Council of Justice responsible for public prosecutors and is Vice-Chairman of the Board of the National School for the Judiciary.

Born on October 26, 1963 in Nancy, France, Rémy Heitz began his career in 1989 as a deputy public prosecutor at the Pontoise Court of First Instance. Assigned to the Directorate of Criminal Affairs and Pardons in 1992, he then became chief of staff to the Minister Delegate for Relations with the National Assembly in 1994.

Head of the Office of Criminal Justice and Individual Freedoms at the Directorate of Criminal Affairs and Pardons from 1995, he joined Saint-Malo as public prosecutor in 1999. In 2001, he was appointed to the Paris Court of First Instance as special adviser to the public prosecutor. He returned to cabinet work in 2002, becoming the Prime Minister’s technical adviser for justice.

In March 2003, he was appointed Interministerial Delegate for Road Safety, a position he held for almost four years. In 2006, his career took him back to the Ministry of Justice, where he became Director of General Administration and Equipment. In 2008, he returned to the court system as head of the Metz public prosecutor’s office.

Appointed President of the Bobigny Court of First Instance in 2010, he held this position for five years, before joining the Colmar Court of Appeal as Chief Justice in 2015. Director of Criminal Affairs and Pardons in the Ministry of Justice in 2017, he was appointed Paris public prosecutor in November 2018. In September 2021, he became public prosecutor at the Paris Court of Appeal, a position he held until his appointment as public prosecutor of the Court of Cassation.

Rémy Heitz is a Knight of the Legion of Honor and an Officer of the National Order of Merit.

GERMANY

Jens Rommel

General Prosecutor

Born on 13 September 1972 in Ellwangen/Jagst (Baden-Württemberg)

1992 – 1993 Basic military service and soldier for a fixed term in Dillingen a. d. Donau and Weingarten/Württemberg

1993 – 1999 Student of law at the Universities of Augsburg and Würzburg as well as Lund, Sweden, and Lyon, France

1999 First legal state examination in Augsburg

1999 – 2002 Legal traineeship in the district of the Munich Higher Regional Court

1991, 2001, 2002 Lecturer at the University of Augsburg

2002 Second legal state examination in Augsburg

2003 – 2004 Judge at the Biberach and Riedlingen District Courts

2004 Public Prosecutor at the Ravensburg Public Prosecutor’s Office

2004 – 2007 Secondment to the Ministry of Justice of Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart

2007 – 2010 Secondment to the Federal Public Prosecutor General at the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe

2010 – 2012 Secondment to the Representation of the State of Baden-Württemberg at the European Union in Brussels, Belgium

2013 – 2015 Head of Division and Permanent Representative of the Head of the Ravensburg Public Prosecutor’s Office

2015 – 2020 Director of the Central Office of the Land Judicial Authorities for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes in Ludwigsburg

2020 – 2024 Judge at the Federal Court of Justice (Fourth Criminal Panel) in Karlsruhe

Since March 2024 Federal Public Prosecutor General at the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe

GREECE

Konstantinos Tzavellas

General Prosecutor

He was born in 1959, in Athens. His father was Vasileios K. Tzavellas (1913 – 1991), Prosecutor at the Court of Appeal. 

He attended various primary and secondary schools through out Greece and graduated from the Zosimaia School of Ioannina in 1977. At the same year, he entered the Law School of the University of Athens and  graduated in 1981.  

He entered the judiciary in 1991 and served, successively, at the prosecution office at the First Instance Court of Athens, Rodopi, Chalkida and at the Court of Appeal of Patra and Athens.

In 1993 he was promoted to Vice Prosecutor and in 2002 to Prosecutor at the First Instance Court, in 2009 he was promoted to Vice Prosecutor and in 2019 to Prosecutor at the Court of Appeal. In 2023 he was promoted to Deputy Prosecutor General of the Supreme Court and as from 7th July 2025 he is appointed General Prosecutor of the Supreme Court of Greece.

As Prosecutor at the First Instance Court of Athens he served at the Juvenile Department, as well as at the Departments of Preliminary Investigation, of Execution, of Hearings and of Administration. As Prosecutor at the Court of Appeal of Athens he served at: a) the Department of Execution, b) the Department of Extradition and Mutual Legal Assistance. He also served as c) Supervising Prosecutor at the Directorate for Special Violent Crimes of the Hellenic Police (Counter Terrorism Unit, DAEEB), d) Supervising Prosecutor of the operation of the National Genotype Data Archive of Hellenic Police Forensic Science Division and e) Supervising Prosecutor of the operation of the Hellenic Police Intelligence Division.

As Deputy Prosecutor General of the Supreme Court, he was responsible for the allocation of case files to the competent Penal Departments and also served as Media Representative of the General Prosecutor’s Office.

He is married and has a 16-year old daughter.

 

HUNGARY

Gábor Bálint Nagy

Prosecutor General

Education

2014-2020 Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Doctoral School of Law and Political Sciences, PhD Programme (university leaving certificate)

2010-2012 Corvinus University of Budapest, lawyer-economist postgraduate programme (university leaving certificate)

1995-2002 Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences

1999-2000 University of Helsinki, Faculty of Law (international law studies)

1991-1995 Baár-Madas High School of the Reformed Church in Budapest


Professional Experience

September 2013 – now part-time lecturer (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences)

June 2025 – now Prosecutor General of Hungary

April 2025 – June 2025 Head of Department prosecutor, Chief of Cabinet (Office of the Prosecutor General, Cabinet)

December 2023 – March 2025 acting Head of Department prosecutor, Chief of Cabinet (Office of the Prosecutor General, Cabinet)

June 2022 – March 2025 seconded Head of Division prosecutor (Office of the Prosecutor General, Cabinet)

September 2021 – May 2022 seconded acting Head of Division prosecutor (Office of the Prosecutor General, Cabinet)

April 2020 – September 2021 acting Head of Division prosecutor (Office of the Prosecutor General, Department for Criminal Court Cases)

October 2012 – April 2020 prosecutor (Office of the Prosecutor General, Department for Criminal Court Cases)

April 2012 – September 2012 seconded prosecutor (Office of the Prosecutor General, Department for Criminal Court Cases)

May 2011 – March 2012 seconded prosecutor (Central Chief Prosecution Office of Investigation)

June 2007 – April 2011 judge (Pest Central District Court)

ITALY

Pietro Gaeta

General Prosecutor

Since 1981, Mr. Pietro Gaeta has served in the judiciary. For the initial two decades of his career, he largely, though not solely, served as a prosecutor in regions (like Calabria) heavily affected by mafia-style organized crime.

From 2020 for five years, he worked as a full-time research assistant for Giovanni Maria Flick, a Constitutional Judge who eventually headed the Constitutional Court. His career included roles as a research assistant for Professor Franco Gallo, who later headed the Constitutional Court, and Professor Franco Modugno. He also served in the Court’s Research and Case-Law Summary Office (2011-2012) as part of this collaboration with the Constitutional Court.

Meanwhile, he assumed the duties of Appeal Justice for the Prosecutor General’s Office at the Supreme Court (2005), followed by the role of Deputy Prosecutor General at the same office (2006). He was appointed Advocate General in February 2019, taking charge of the entire criminal affairs sector. He was appointed Prosecutor General of the Supreme Court in March 2025.

From May 1, 1999, for the subsequent three years, he was part of the High Council of the Judiciary Scientific Committee, overseeing judicial member training. He was a decentralized training coordinator at the Supreme Court from 2012 to 2013. He was part of the Ministry of Justice and the Presidency of the Council of Ministers committees, such as the 2012 group that suggested a thorough overhaul of statute of limitations regulations, and a member of permanent technical committees.

From 2002 to 2005, he was an adjunct professor at Mediterranea University, Reggio Calabria, teaching Criminal Law and then Criminal Procedure, and from 2015 to 20222 a professor for the School of Specialization for Legal Professions at La Sapienza University, Rome, in the same subject.

With roughly eighty scholarly publications to his name in criminal law and general legal theory, covering essays, editorships, encyclopedic entries, and chapter contributions, he is also a frequent speaker at training courses for judges and prosecutors, scholarly and international conferences, and academic events.

Since 11 March 2025, he has assumed the role of Prosecutor General at the Supreme Court.

IRELAND

Catherine Pierse

General Prosecutor

Catherine Pierse was appointed as the Irish Director of Public Prosecutions on 8th November 2021.

She has over 20 years experience as a practicing solicitor in a range of criminal law and regulatory roles. She joined the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions as the Head of the Prosecution Support Services Division in 2018.

Catherine previously held the roles of Head of Legal and Policy in the Policing Authority from 2016 to 2018; she was Senior Enforcement Lawyer in the Central Bank of Ireland from 2011 to 2016; and Legal Advisor in the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission from 2007 to 2011. Before that Catherine worked as a criminal defence lawyer from 2001. Educated in University College Cork and Queen’s University Belfast, Catherine qualified as a solicitor in 2001.

LETTONIE

Armīns Meisters

General Prosecutor

Armīns Meisters is the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Latvia, appointed by the Latvian Parliament (Saeima) on 20 November 2025. He has served in the Latvian Prosecution Office since 2000 and has held several senior leadership positions, specializing in complex criminal investigations and the supervision of economic and organized crime cases.

Education

  • Master’s Degree in Law, University of Latvia, 2004
  • Professional Higher Education Diploma in Law, State Police Academy of Latvia, 2000

 

Professional Experience

  • Prosecutor General
    Prosecution Office of the Republic of Latvia
    2025 – present: Head of the Latvian Prosecution Office; responsible for the supervision and strategic direction of the prosecution system nationwide.
    Overseeing the work of prosecutors and ensuring lawful criminal prosecution and supervision of investigations.
  • Chief Prosecutor, Prosecution Office of Riga Judicial Region
    2018 – 2025: Management of prosecutorial work within the Riga judicial region and supervision of complex criminal cases.
  • Chief Prosecutor, Financial and Economic Crimes Investigation Prosecution Office
    2015 – 2018: Leading investigations and prosecutions involving financial crimes, economic offences, and large-scale fraud.
  • Chief Prosecutor, Prosecution Office of Riga City Centre District
    2012 – 2015: Supervision of district-level prosecutorial work and coordination of criminal proceedings within the jurisdiction.
  • Prosecutor, Specialized Prosecution Office for Organized Crime and Other Sectors
    2005 – 2012: Work with cases related to organized crime and specialized criminal investigations.
  • Prosecutor, Multi-Sector Specialized Prosecution Office
    2000 – 2005: Beginning of a prosecutor career following completion of legal studies.

 

Professional Profile

With more than two decades of experience in the prosecution service, Armīns Meisters has extensive expertise in criminal prosecution, institutional leadership, and the supervision of complex investigations, particularly in the fields of organized crime and financial offences. His career reflects a steady progression through senior leadership roles within Latvia’s Prosecution Office leading to his appointment as Prosecutor General.

LITHUANIA

Nida Grunskienė

Prosecutor General

Nida Grunskienė graduated from the Faculty of Law of Vilnius University in 1995. She began her career at the Kupiškis District Prosecutor’s Office, serving as an intern, investigator, and prosecutor.

In 1998, she joined the Panevėžys Regional Prosecutor’s Office. From 1999, she worked in the Organised Crime and Corruption Investigation Division, first as a prosecutor and later as Deputy Chief Prosecutor. In 2013, she was appointed Chief Prosecutor of the Panevėžys Regional Prosecutor’s Office, a position she held until January 2021.

Since January 2021, Nida Grunskienė has served as the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Lithuania. In January 2026, she was reappointed for a second five-year term.

She has extensive experience in leading complex pre-trial investigations related to organised crime, human trafficking, and corruption, as well as in managing large teams and contributing to the development of prosecutorial practices.

MALTA

Victoria Buttigieg

General Prosecutor

Dr Buttigieg obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Legal and Humanistic Studies in 1998, followed by a Diploma as Notary Public in 1999. She graduated with a Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Malta in 2001, obtained her warrant in 2002, and completed her Master of Laws in Financial Services in 2004.

In 2002, she commenced her professional career as a junior lawyer within the Ministry for Resources and Infrastructure, where she was responsible for litigation and providing legal advice to Government Departments under the Ministry’s remit.

In 2007, Dr Buttigieg joined the Office of the Attorney General as a lawyer, assigned to the Civil, Administrative, and Constitutional Law Unit. In this role, she defended civil, administrative, and constitutional cases on behalf of the Government before domestic courts and represented the Office in international fora, including European Union Council meetings and Council of Europe meetings (CDDH).

In 2012, Dr Buttigieg was appointed Assistant Attorney General and led the Civil, Administrative, and Constitutional Law Unit. She continued to litigate cases on behalf of the Government and represented the Office in international contexts, including as a reviewer in the peer review of UNCAC, and attended meetings of the European Union Council and the Council of Europe.

In 2019, Dr Buttigieg was appointed as the first State Advocate and headed the newly established Office of the State Advocate. This office assumed the advisory role previously held by the Attorney General. During her tenure, she also acted as Agent before the ECHR and CJEU.

On 9 September 2020, Dr Buttigieg was appointed Attorney General for the Republic of Malta, becoming the first woman to hold this position. She is responsible for overseeing several reforms at the Office of the Attorney General, particularly concerning the conduct of prosecutions before the Courts of Magistrates – a function that was previously solely vested in the Police until 1 October 2020.

NORTHERN IRELAND

Stephen Herron

General Prosecutor

Stephen Herron Studied law at Queen’s University Belfast and subsequently qualified as a solicitor in 1997

Joined the PPS in 2002, working in key Departments across the Service including Fraud and Departmental and Central Casework.

Became Senior Assistant Director in 2013, playing a lead role in the Transformation programme for the PPS which has involved the roll-out of digital programme across courts; creation of specialist prosecutors for murder and serious offences; the streamlining of regional services and redesigning the supports provided to victims and witnesses.

Appointed as Director of Public Prosecutions in January 2018 – the first Solicitor to be appointed to this role.

NETHERLANDS

Edwin Bleichrodt

General Prosecutor

Edwin Bleichrodt is Procurator General at the Supreme Court of the Netherlands. He graduated and obtained his doctorate at the Law Faculty of Radboud University Nijmegen.

From 1996 to 2010, Bleichrodt was a lawyer in the Hague. From 2005 onwards, he combined his legal practice with a professorship in Groningen. In 2009, Bleichrodt was appointed professor of criminal law and criminal procedure law at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

From 2013 to 2021, he worked as an Advocate General at the Supreme Court of the Netherlands, in the criminal law section. From September 1, 2021, he works as Procurator General at the Supreme Court. He is also treasurer of the Nadal Network.

PORTUGAL

Amadeu Guerra

General Prosecutor

Amadeu Francisco Ribeiro Guerra was born in 1955, in Tábua, in the district of Coimbra.

In 1978, he graduated in Law from the University of Lisbon. He attended the Centre for Judicial Studies between 1980 and 1981, the year he was admitted to the Public Prosecution Service.

He performed functions at Lisbon’s county until he joined, in 1991, the Steering Office for Judicial Computerisation. In December 1993, he was appointed to the National Commission for the Protection of Personal Data, a position he held until 2006.

In June 2004, he was promoted to Deputy Prosecutor General. He performed functions as a Legal Auditor at the Ministry for Public Works, Transport and Communications between 2006 and 2008, the year in which he was appointed to the South Central Administrative Court, having been assigned to the post of coordinator of this court in February 2009.

In March 2013, he was appointed director of the Central Department of Criminal Investigation and Prosecution (DCIAP), a post he held until his appointment as Lisbon’s District Deputy Prosecutor General in January 2019. He retired with full honours in August 2020.

On 12 October 2024, Amadeu Francisco Ribeiro Guerra was sworn in as the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Portugal.

ROMANIA

Alex Florența

General Prosecutor

Alex Florin FLORENȚA was appointed as Prosecutor General of the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice on 30th of March 2023.

Previously, he held various managerial positions within the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism: Chief Prosecutor of the Section for combating organized crime and Chief Prosecutor of the Technical Department within the Central Structure (January 2021 – March 2023), Chief Prosecutor of the DIICOT – Timișoara Territorial Office (February 2016 – January 2021) and Chief Prosecutor of the DIICOT – Sibiu Territorial Office (September 2013 – February 2014). From these positions he coordinated the prosecution activity in complex cases of organized crime, trafficking in human beings, drug trafficking, cybercrime and economic criminality.

From August 2015 to February 2016, he was a prosecutor within the National Anticorruption Directorate – Timișoara Territorial Service, investigating complex cases of corruption affecting the EU’s financial interests.

From February 2010 to April 2012 he was a prosecutor within the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Sibiu Court and from August 2008 to February 2010 within the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Oradea Court, prosecuting economic and financial crimes and cases of serious violence.

He has experience in the management of European funding projects, e.g. coordinator of the SNOW WHITE project – “Coordinated tackling of new trends in drug trafficking”, co-funded by the European Commission, which ran from December 2018 to October 2022 and had as partners the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice, the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office of Belgium and the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Lithuanian Police.

Throughout his career he participated as an expert in numerous international training sessions and conferences in his areas of expertize, conducted by UNODC and EU-ACT, his language skills comprising English, Spanish and French.

He is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of “Al. I. Cuza” University of Iași – class of 2002, of the National Institute of Magistracy (2006-2008), and holds a Master’s degree in “Global Security Studies” at the West University of Timișoara (2017-2019).

SCOTLAND

John Logue

General Prosecutor

John Logue is the Crown Agent and Chief Executive of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS). He was appointed in September 2022 on an interim basis and permanently in December 2023.

John Logue has been a prosecutor in Scotland for 30 years.

The Crown Agent is the head of COPFS which is the public prosecution and death investigation service in Scotland. He is the principal legal advisor to the Lord Advocate on prosecution matters and the Chief Executive of COPFS.

SLOVAC REPUBLIC

Maroš Žilinka

General Prosecutor

10. 12. 2020 – Prosecutor General of the Slovak Republic

2018 – 2020 Prosecutor – Head of the Economic Criminality Department of the Special Prosecution Office of the General Prosecutor´s Office of the Slovak Republic

2012 – 2017 Prosecutor – Deputy Head of the Economic Criminality Department of the Special Prosecution Office of the General Prosecutor´s Office of the Slovak Republic

2010 – 2012 State Secretary of the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic

2005 – 2010 Prosecutor – Deputy Head of the Economic Criminality Department of the Special Prosecution Office of the General Prosecutor´s Office of the Slovak Republic　

2003 – 2005 Prosecutor of the Criminal Department of the General Prosecutor´s Office of the Slovak Republic

1997- 2003 Prosecutor of the District Prosecution Office Piešťany

1995 – 1996 Prosecutor of the District Prosecution Office Trnava

1993 – 1995 Legal trainee of the District Prosecution Office Trnava

Education
1993 Faculty of Law, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice

SLOVENIA

Katarina Bergant

General Prosecutor

Katarina Bergant graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana in 1994 and, after completing her traineeship at the Ljubljana Higher Court, passed the national bar exam in 1997. In the same year, she became employed as judicial adviser at the District State Prosecutor’s Office in Ljubljana, where she was appointed Assistant District State Prosecutor in 2004, District State Prosecutor in 2007, and Senior State Prosecutor in 2018. In 2018, she was appointed head of the Ljubljana District State Prosecutor’s Office for a six-year term. In January 2024, she was appointed Supreme State Prosecutor at the Ljubljana District State Prosecutor’s Office. One month later, in February 2024, she was appointed Head of the Ljubljana District State Prosecutor’s Office for a second six-year term, a position she held until being elected State Prosecutor General of the Republic of Slovenia in April 2024.

A Doctor of Criminal Law Sciences, she has 27 years of experience in criminal law, she has mainly dealt with general crimes and hate speech, i.e. the crime of public incitement to hatred, violence and intolerance. In her work, she has handled demanding and complex cases that have garnered significant attention in the media.

In her research, she has focused primarily on relationships between criminal, constitutional and media law. The subject of her doctoral thesis is entitled “Investigative Journalism in Terms of Criminal Law”, for which she received her doctoral degree cum laude at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana in 2014.

Katarina Bergant was a member of numerous working groups engaged in drafting legislation in the field of prosecution, substantive criminal law and procedural law, as well as legislation in the field of public prosecution management, which were established at the State Prosecutor’s Office and the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Slovenia. In 2019, she was appointed to the expert working group for drafting amendments to the Mass Media Act at the Ministry of Culture and for drafting amendments to the Criminal Procedure Act at the Ministry of Justice. She is the author of research and professional papers on criminal law and a co-author of the Commentary on the general part of the Criminal Code and the Commentary on the Criminal Procedure Act.

She has participated in many training events and attended conferences in Slovenia and abroad, mainly on the topic of hate speech and other criminal law-related topics. As a visiting lecturer, she has given lectures at various training events and conferences on topics relating to criminal substantive criminal and procedural law, public prosecution management and communication with the media as part of the professional training for heads and directors of prosecution services.

Since 2020, she has been in charge of and a lecturer of the criminal and punitive law course at the MLC Faculty of Management and Law, Ljubljana.

SPAIN

Teresa Peramato Martín

General Prosecutor

Teresa Peramato Martín holds a Law degree from the University of Salamanca and joined the Spanish Prosecution Service in 1990. After serving in several Prosecutor’s Offices across Spain (Tenerife, Valladolid y Barcelona), she specialised in the prosecution of gender‑based violence offences, becoming the Delegate Prosecutor for the Violence Against Women Section in Madrid in 2005.

In 2010 she was posted as Assistance to the Head of the Unit of Violence Against Women and, subsequently, as Prosecutor before the Constitutional Court.

Before her recent appointment as Prosecutor General, she was promoted in 2021as Deputy Prosecutor to the Prosector´s General and Head of the Unit of Violence Against Women. In 2025 she has been serving as Supreme Court Prosecutor and Head of the Criminal Section of the Supreme Court at the General Prosecutor’s Office and Prosecutor´s General Delegate for the Protection and Safeguarding of Victims in criminal proceedings.

She has extensive experience as a lecturer and author on gender‑based violence and equality, and has participated in numerous national and international training initiatives. She is also an independent expert on the Selection Committee of the “Soledad Cazorla Prieto Scholarship Fund for children orphaned by gender‑based violence”.

Her work has been recognised with multiple awards and distinctions, including honours from the National Police and the Civil Guard, several Equality Awards from Spanish Bar Associations, the “Meninas” Award of the Government Delegation Against Gender‑Based Violence, and recognitions from academic institutions and civil society organisations.

SWEDEN

Katarina Johansson Welin

General Prosecutor

Katarina Johansson Welin is the Prosecutor General at the Swedish Prosecution Authority since February 2024. Ms Johansson Welin holds a Master of Law from Lund University. 

She has worked in public prosecution since 1991. During these years, Ms Johansson Welin has, among other things, been Chief Public Prosecutor at the National Unit against International Organised Crime. In 2012, she was appointed Director of Public Prosecution with coordinating responsibility for the Stockholm and Norrland regions and in 2014 she became Head of Stockholm Public Prosecution Area. 

Before her current appointment, she had served as Deputy Prosecutor General since 2019. Ms Johansson Welin has been the Swedish Prosecution Authority´s expert in several Official Reports of the Swedish Government.

LIECHTENSTEIN

Frank Haun

General Prosecutor

Frank Haun is Prosecutor General at the Office of the Public Prosecutor in Liechtenstein. This office is responsible for public prosecution and law enforcement in Liechtenstein.

After studying law and completing his doctorate at the University of Innsbruck, Frank Haun first worked as a trainee and then as a candidate judge in the district of the Innsbruck Regional Court, where he first passed the judge´s examination and subsequently the supplementary bar examination. In early 2000, he was appointed a judge for the Innsbruck Higher Regional Court district, serving at various courts in Vorarlberg.

In August 2000, Frank Haun was appointed by the government of the Principality of Liechtenstein as a prosecutor with the Liechtenstein Office of the Public Prosecutor. He had served as Deputy Prosecutor General since October 2010. In November 2024, Frank Haun was appointed Prosecutor General.

Frank Haun is a member of the Liechtenstein delegation to Moneyval and of CARIN. He represents the Office of the Pubic Porsecutor during evaluations of Liechtenstein in the areas of money laundering, terrorist financing and anti-corruption. Frank Haun assists the government with various legislative projects and serves on several government working groups.

SWITZERLAND

Stefan Blättler

Procureur Général

Stefan Blättler has a law degree (summa cum laude) from the University of Neuchâtel (CH), where he also completed his PhD. After a period in the banking industry, he joined the police force of the canton of Bern and became Commander in 2006. He was then elected Attorney General of the Swiss Confederation by the Swiss Parliament in 2021 and took up his position in January 2022.

Stefan Blättler was also Strategic Director of the Swiss Disaster Victim Identification Team, Chairman of the Conference of Cantonal Police Commanders and Chairman of the Foundation Board of the Swiss Police Institute.

He has also been a lecturer in criminal law at the University of Neuchâtel and is currently lecturing criminal law at the University of Bern. He has published several articles on police issues in Swiss criminal law and criminology journals.

Stefan Blättler was appointed member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Prosecutors (IAP) in September 2023.

MOLDOVA

Alexandru Machidon

Senior Prosecutor

Alexandru Machidon is a senior prosecutor and legal professional from the Republic of Moldova with nearly two decades of experience within the prosecutorial system. Since 30 April 2026, he has served as Prosecutor General of the Republic of Moldova, following his tenure as Acting Prosecutor General from May 2025 to April 2026.

Throughout his career, Mr. Machidon has held numerous leadership positions within the prosecution service, including acting Chief Prosecutor and Deputy Chief Prosecutor roles in several territorial and specialized prosecution offices, such as the Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Organized Crime and Special Cases, the Chisinau Municipal Prosecutor’s Office, and the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office.

His professional experience includes extensive work in criminal prosecution, anti-corruption activities, organized crime investigations, and institutional management. Over the years, he has progressively advanced through the prosecutorial system, demonstrating strong expertise in prosecutorial leadership and judicial administration.

Mr. Machidon graduated from the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova with a Bachelor’s Degree in Law (2007) and subsequently obtained a Master’s Degree in Economic Law (2008).

ALBANIA

Olsian Çela

General Prosecutor

Mr. Olsian Çela was elected Prosecutor General of the Republic of Albania in December 2019.

Mr. Çela has contributed to the Albanian justice system as a prosecutor since 2001. He began his career as a prosecutor in 2001 at the Prosecutor’s Office at the Tirana District Court. In the period 2004-2019, he served as a prosecutor at the Serious Crimes Prosecutor’s Office, where he was also the head of this prosecutor’s office between 2008-2012. During the same period, Mr. Çela was a member of the High Prosecutorial Council.

During his career, he has represented the Albanian prosecution for several years in the Consultative Council of European Prosecutors.

Mr. Çela graduated as a lawyer from the Faculty of Law, University of Tirana in 1999 and enjoys the status of magistrate prosecutor after completing the Magistrates’ School, since 2002. In 2008 he completed the “Chevening Fellowship” program at the International Academy in Bramshill, Great Britain.

Since 2019, he has also held the position of Deputy Chairman of the Governing Council of the School of Magistrates, while he was a member of the Governing Board of the School of Magistrates (today’s Governing Council) in the years 2010-2014.

Mr. Çela has several years of academic experience in several law faculties in the country as well as a long experience of cooperation with the School of Magistrates in its training programs since 2008.

European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO)

Laura Codruța Kövesi

Head of the EPPO

Laura Codruța Kövesi is the former chief prosecutor of Romania’s National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA in Romanian), a position she held from 2013 to 9 July 2018. Prior to this, between 2006 and 2012 Laura Kövesi was the Prosecutor General of Romania, attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice. She was the first female and the youngest Prosecutor General in Romania’s history.

In October 2019, Laura Kövesi was confirmed by the European Parliament and the Council as the first European Chief Prosecutor to head the recently created European Public Prosecutor Office (EPPO), EU Regulation (EU) 2017/1939.

International Association of Prosecutors

Juan Bautista Mahiques

President

Attorney General of the Public Prosecution Service of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (MPF CABA), Argentina (since October 2019- currently on leave), President of the International Association of Prosecutors (IAP) (since September 2022).

Attorney-at-law (Buenos Aires University (UBA) and M.A. in Justice Administration (Unitelma Sapienza Universitá Degli Studi Di Roma).

Mr. Mahiques is a Member of the Committee of the Global Training Academy of the International Association of Prosecutors (IAP), alongside colleagues from around the world.

Mr. Mahiques also holds the position of Chair Professor at the UBA Common Basic Course of Admission. Previously, he also served as Deputy Director of the Higher Institute for Public Security (ISSP) (from November 2020 to June 2024), and as Rector of the University Institute of Security of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (July 2024 – March 2026).

He has broad experience within the National Judiciary, where he has held various positions since 2000: He served as Advisor Representative of the National Executive Branch with the National Council of Justices and Magistrates and as Under-Secretary of Penitentiary Affairs and Relations with the Judiciary and the Academic Community, within the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of Argentina (2015-2019).

He also served as representative of the Council of Justices and Magistrates before the Bicameral Commission of Monitoring and Implementation of the Federal Procedural Criminal Code, at the Honorable National Congress.

Before being elected President of the International Association of Prosecutors (IAP) in September 2022, he served as Ordinary Member of the IAP Executive Committee (IAP) and, in 2021, he was elected IAP Vice-President for the Latin-American Region.

Academy of European Law (ERA)

Jean-Philippe Rageade

Director

Jean-Philippe Rageade has been the Director of the Academy of European Law (ERA) since January 2021. He studied French and German law at the University Paris-X Nanterre, completing his LLM at the Westfälische Wilhelms Universität in Münster and a D.E.A. in business law at the University Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Following various traineeships in law firms and large companies, he was a lecturer in economic criminal law at the University of Paris IX Dauphine and in French law at the University of Bielefeld. He was an academic assistant at the Institute for International and Comparative Law of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, following which he was a lawyer at the law firm Arendt & Medernach in Luxembourg. He was Deputy Director and Director of Programmes of ERA from October 2005 to December 2020.

The Academy of European Law (ERA) is the leading provider of continuing training in European law that provides specialised programmes to practitioners in all legal professions. ERA also offers a unique forum for practitioners from different member states and legal professions to meet and exchange with one another and with the EU institutions responsible for the development and application of European law.

SERBIA

Zagorka Dolovac

General Prosecutor

Ms. Dolovac was born on October 12, 1966 in Novi Sad, Serbia. She completed high school in Sremski Karlovci and graduated from the Law School in Novi Sad in 1989. Ms. Dolovac passed the bar exam in 1992. She worked as a trainee for the Novi Sad District Prosecutor’s Office from 1990-1992 and in Novi Sad Municipal Prosecutor’s Office from 1992-1996. In 1996, she became a Deputy Municipal Prosecutor and in 2004 Deputy District Prosecutor in Novi Sad. She became Acting Head of the District Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade in 2007, being responsible for the work of the biggest public prosecutor’s office in Serbia.

On November 30, 2009 Ms. Dolovac was elected by the Parliament as the Republic Public Prosecutor of the Republic of Serbia, supervising entire prosecutorial organization of Serbia. She assumed the office on 1st January, 2010. At the same time by the virtue of the office she became the President of the State Council of Prosecutors, responsible for prosecutors’ recruitment and carrier, budget, ethics and discipline. In 2015, she was re-elected by the Parliament for her second 6-year mandate, which she assumed on 1st January 2016. In 2021 she was re-elected by the Parliament for her third 6-year mandate, which she assumed on 1st January 2022. On 10th May 2023 she continued her term as a Prosecutor General, in accordance with the new Law on Public Prosecution, while at the same time upon the new Law on High Prosecution Council she ceased to perform the function of the President of the Council, continuing to serve as its member.

Ms. Dolovac leeds the Supreme Public Prosecution – the most senior public prosecution in Serbia, responsible for acting before the Supreme Court of Cassation and the Constitutional Court, submitting extraordinary legal remedies, monitoring and directing the work of all public prosecution offices, supervision of execution of general mandatory instructions and monitoring and analyzing of prosecutorial and court practice and for international cooperation.

European Judicial Training Network

Ingrid Derveaux

Secretary General

Ms Ingrid Derveaux is a French judge and lecturer with nearly 20 years of experience in judicial practice, training, and European cooperation. She has served as Secretary General of the European Judicial Training Network (EJTN) since January 2023 and is currently in her second mandate, running until 2028. She leads the EJTN Secretariat and steers the Network’s strategic development at a time of transformation for European justice.

Among the key themes of her work are the digital transformation of justice, the development of a common European area of justice, and support for the Rule of Law, fundamental rights, and gender equality.

She has previously held senior roles at the French National School for the Judiciary (ENM), served as Vice-Prosecutor in Paris, and worked as a judge in civil and criminal matters.

MONTENEGRO

Milorad Marković

General Prosecutor

PRESENT POSITION

  • Supreme State Prosecutor of Montenegro

 

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

  • BA in Law at State University of Montenegro, Faculty of Law, Podgorica, Montenegro
  • Master of Law Science at State University Belgrade, Faculty of Law, Belgrade, Serbia. Thesis title: “Right to Defence Lawyer in Criminal Procedure”
  • Bar exam

 

SPECIALIST AREAS OF KNOWLEDGE

  • Long-term experience in education in the field of Criminal Procedure Law and International Criminal Law (University of Montenegro, Law School in Podgorica, Teaching Assistant at the Department of Penal Law, courses: Criminal procedure and International Criminal Law, (January 2002 – December 2012 – full time))
  • Member of the Working Group for drafting the text of the Draft Law on Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code (March 2014 – August 2015)
  • Extensive experience in field of Human Rights (University of Montenegro, Human Rights Centre, Program Assistant and Researcher – part time (September 2002 – December 2012) 
  • Experience as a member of Commission for International Humanitarian Law, Serbia & Montenegro Red Cross Society (February 2003- December 2005)
  • Long-term experience in field of Rule of Law (Program coordinator for Rule of Law at CEMI, Center for Monitoring)
  • Experience in field of Free Legal Aid (Drafting Law on Free Legal Aid (Open Society Foundation – Project 2005-2006)
  • Experience in field of International Cooperation in Criminal Matters (Member of the Ministry of Justice working group for drafting changes of Law on International Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters – 2012)
  • Knowledge in field of harmonization with EU Law (Training in organization of SEELS – with support of GIZ, BMZ an IEP – September 2012)
  • Development of training program for judges and prosecutors in the field of International cooperation in criminal matters (UNDP – Ministry of Justice – December 2013)
  • Creating of Fiche Belges – tools for mutual legal assistance to the Western Balkans (GIZ Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office – March 2014)
  • Analysis of compliance of national legislation with the EU acquis in the field of International cooperation in criminal matters (GIZ – Ministry of Justice – February – May 2014)
  • Development of training program for judges and prosecutors in the field of Juvenile justice system (UNICEF – June 2014)
  • Developing a Gender Identity Law Model – Institute for Legal Studies – IPLS, 2016
  • Assessment of disciplinary rules and practices of Disciplinary Committees of the Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of Montenegro – Project “Accountability of the Judicial System” – the Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey, a joint programme of the Council of Europe and the European Union, 2017
  • Assessment related to alignment of the national legislation with acquis and ECtHR standards and its effective implementation in the practice of judicial bodies – Action “Improving procedural safeguards in judicial proceedings in Montenegro” – the Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey II, a joint programme of the Council of Europe and the European Union, 2019
  • Baseline study on ethics for legal professions – lawyers, notaries and court experts “Accountability and Professionalism of the Judicial System in Montenegro” – the Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey II, a joint programme of the Council of Europe and the European Union, 2019
  • Assessment related to the sanctioning policy and mechanisms to respond to hate crime and hate speech – Project “Promotion of diversity and equality in Montenegro” – the Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey II, a joint programme of the Council of Europe and the European Union, 2020
  • Analysis of the practical application of the law on seizure and confiscation of material benefit derived from criminal activity – “Strengthening the fight against transnational organized crime in South-Eastern Europe through improved regional co-operation in asset seizure, confiscation, management and re-use”, implemented by OSCE (TNTD/ SPMU and OCEEA), 2020
  • Expert support to the Center for Training in the Judiciary and the State Prosecutor’s Office in the preparation of the Revision of the Methodology for Assessing the Training Needs of Judges and Prosecutors in Montenegro (Handbook on Training Needs Assessment (TNA) Methodology, Recommendations and New Tools) – Council of Europe (2021)
  • Expert support to the Center for Training in the Judiciary and the State Prosecutor’s Office for the preparation of the Report on the Assessment of Training Needs for Judges and State Prosecutors in Montenegro – Council of Europe (for 2022 and 2023)
  • Expert support to the Working Group of the Ministry of Justice on drafting the text of the Draft Law on the Origin of Property – EU/SE Horizontal Instrument for the Western Balkans and Turkey – Phase II, Economic Crime and Cooperation Department (ECCD) of the Council of Europe -” Project for the fight against economic crime in Montenegro (2021 – 2022)
  • National consultant/Member of the Working Group for drafting the text of the Draft Law on Prohibition of Discrimination – national consultant of the Council of Europe (March – December 2022)
  • The Evaluation of the Implementation of the Strategy for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions 2017-2021, Action “Further Improvement of the Protection of Human Rights of Detained and Convicted Persons in Montenegro”, the Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey II, a joint programme of the Council of Europe and the European Union (2022-2023)
  • Legal support and advice to the finalization of the draft of the law on Legal Gender Identity, the Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey II, a joint programme of the Council of Europe and the European Union (2022-2023).

 

EXPERIENCE IN INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS

  • Legal advisor – GIZ – EU4FAST-WB (July 2023- January 2024)
  • Legal Advisor – IPA/2017 Countering Serious Crime in the Western Balkans (January 2018 – March 2020)
  • National Legal officer – IPA 2014 project “International Cooperation in Criminal Justice: Prosecutors’ Network in the Western Balkans”  implemented by GIZ and CILC  (February 2015- December 2017)
  • Legal Consultant at the UNICEF Montenegro Project „Justice for Children“
  • Legal consultant – Court Monitoring Project (May 2007– September 2011) OSCE– CEMI, Center for Monitoring and Research,
  • SEELS – South EAST European Law School Network – numerous projects participation
  • The European Law Student’s Association of Montenegro, President and Vice-president for Academics Activities (March 2000 – September 2003)
  • Numerous international trainings, seminars and study visits regarding criminal law reform, human rights and harmonisation with EU Law.

 

LANGUAGE

  • Montenegrin
  • English
Ibero-American Public Prosecutors Association

Francisco Jiménez-Villarejo

Head of the International Cooperation

Law degree in Law from the University of Navarra in 1985.

In 1990 I took my first position as Public Prosecutor at the District Prosecution Office in Sevilla. I was also posted at the PPO in the Balearic Islands, where he was promoted as Senior Public Prosecutor to the second professional category in 1996, and at the PPO in Málaga in 2001.

During my position in the District PPO in Málaga I joined the Specialised Network of International Cooperation public Prosecutors in 2002 and I was also appointed as Delegated Anticorruption Prosecutor in 2006.

In 2004 I was nominated as European Judicial Network (EJN) contact point for the South of Spain.

In 2005 he was elected by my peers as Member of the High Public Prosecutor´s Council (2005-2010).

In 2012 he was appointed by the Spanish Government as National Member for Spain at Eurojust representing the Spanish judicial authorities before this EU Agency for Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters. During my first mandate as National Member I was elected by the Eurojust Collage as Vice-President of the agency from 2013 to 2016. At Eurojust I was also elected as Chair of the Judicial Cooperation Instruments Team (JCIT) in 2020, coordinating different reports, such as the compilation on the impact of COVID-19 on judicial cooperation in the EU Member States, Iceland and Norway or the first Eurojust Operational Report on the EIO, as well as the Joint Report with the RJE on Extradition of EU citizens to third countries.

In April 2022 I was appointed as Supreme Court Prosecutor and Head of the International Cooperation Unit at the General Prosecutor’s Office.

Since 2024 I am the EJN and European JIT´s Network National Correspondent for Spain.

Last but not least, I would like to mention my participation as an expert in various cooperation and training programs supported by the EU (namely programs organized by the European Judicial Training Network – EJTN – or programs such as EUROMED JUSTICE or EL PACCTO in Latin American countries) and in evaluations by GRECO (Fourth Round) or the Council of the EU (Sixth and Tenth Mutual Evaluation Rounds), as well as my collaborations with various Spanish Universities (Complutense University of Madrid, Universities of Málaga, Valladolid, Salamanca, Castilla-La Mancha, Granada, and Seville), having published more than thirty articles in Law Journals and collective Law books.

MALTA

Victoria Buttigieg

General Prosecutor

Dr Buttigieg obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Legal and Humanistic Studies in 1998, followed by a Diploma as Notary Public in 1999. She graduated with a Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Malta in 2001, obtained her warrant in 2002, and completed her Master of Laws in Financial Services in 2004.

In 2002, she commenced her professional career as a junior lawyer within the Ministry for Resources and Infrastructure, where she was responsible for litigation and providing legal advice to Government Departments under the Ministry’s remit.

In 2007, Dr Buttigieg joined the Office of the Attorney General as a lawyer, assigned to the Civil, Administrative, and Constitutional Law Unit. In this role, she defended civil, administrative, and constitutional cases on behalf of the Government before domestic courts and represented the Office in international fora, including European Union Council meetings and Council of Europe meetings (CDDH).

In 2012, Dr Buttigieg was appointed Assistant Attorney General and led the Civil, Administrative, and Constitutional Law Unit. She continued to litigate cases on behalf of the Government and represented the Office in international contexts, including as a reviewer in the peer review of UNCAC, and attended meetings of the European Union Council and the Council of Europe.

In 2019, Dr Buttigieg was appointed as the first State Advocate and headed the newly established Office of the State Advocate. This office assumed the advisory role previously held by the Attorney General. During her tenure, she also acted as Agent before the ECHR and CJEU.

On 9 September 2020, Dr Buttigieg was appointed Attorney General for the Republic of Malta, becoming the first woman to hold this position. She is responsible for overseeing several reforms at the Office of the Attorney General, particularly concerning the conduct of prosecutions before the Courts of Magistrates – a function that was previously solely vested in the Police until 1 October 2020.

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