On Wednesday 26 May, the preparatory meeting of the Circle of Presidents of the Conference of European Constitutional Courts (CECC) took place. The Circle of Presidents is the executive and decision-making body of the organisation, which brings together forty European constitutional courts and equivalent institutions. The CECC is the most important European platform for multilateral cooperation between judicial bodies empowered with the constitutional review.

The aim of the preparatory meeting was mainly to approve the organizational matters related to the XIXth Congress of the CECC, which will be organized by the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Moldova, by virtue of its current presidency. The meeting, chaired by the President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Moldova, Ms. Domnica Manole, fulfilled its objectives. By agreement of the representatives of the member courts, for example, the theme and the date of the upcoming Congress of the CECC were agreed upon. The participants of the meeting also agreed on the joint action of the CECC within the World Conference on Constitutional Justice (WCCJ), where the CECC is collectively represented by its presiding court. The President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Moldova thus has a clear mandate for her action within the WCCJ. For the second time in a row, the meeting was held on-line.

Pavel Dvorak
Head of External Relations and Protocol Department