First Results Concerning the Cross-Border Enforcement Proceeding Tool (CEPT) Are Already Visible
Common co-operation project of the Chamber of Judicial Officers of Estonia „Cross-Border Enforcement Proceeding Tool (JUST/2011/JCIV/AG/3384)“, co-financed by “Civil Justice” programme of EC, is successfully ongoing in cooperation with UIHJ, Latvian and Lithuanian Chambers of Judicial Officers
Today creditors who want to collect debts owed to them in another EU Member State are confronted with a number of problems. At the moment, for starting an enforcement procedure, the required documents are submitted to the judicial officer in the EU Member State in written form.
This is due to a lack of alternative solutions which would allow for the authentication of the submitted documents to be inspected, since digital signatures are mostly used domestically and with regards to cross-border communication their use is not widely spread. Costs and delays resulting thereof may sometimes cause a situation in which claims will remain unenforced. CEPT will simplify the process of the cross-border enforcement procedure and alleviates the problems described.
CEPT will make available:
1. to start an enforcement proceeding in another EU Member State;
2. to send and archive documents and data electronically to the Member States;
3. to check up on the current status of the enforcement proceeding;
4. to provide interconnections with information registers;
5. to participate in the enforcement proceeding electronically;
6. to carry out more efficient supervision.
In principle CEPT could be a common proceeding tool for judicial officers in all over EU. This is a big challenge, of course. But the project started from technical supportive means with hope to continue in next years by popularization and process-development issues.
During the summer the team is working on designing and developing IT-solution. The information system will be ready for final testing in late autumn this year.
