Madrid, 24 June 2012: Meeting of the ACA-Europe Board
The Association of the Councils of State and Supreme Administrative Jurisdictions of the European Union (ACA-Europe) held one of its two annual Board meetings in Madrid on 24 June 2012. Mr Yves Kreins, Secretary-General of ACA-Europe, gave an overview of the association's activities, with a particular focus on projects connected with the databases managed by the association, working visits by judges and cooperation with the European authorities. Topics of discussion included newsletter no. 27, which presents the general findings of the working group on the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which met in The Hague on 24 November 2011, and will serve as a basis for the Madrid colloquium, and newsletter no. 28, which focuses on the work of the seminar on increasing the efficiency of the Supreme Administrative Courts' powers, held in Brussels on 1 and 2 March 2012. ACA-Europe's activities for 2012-2013 were raised too. The association is planning to organise two seminars, the first of which will be organised in Brussels on 23 November 2012, with the cooperation of the European Commission's Environment DG, and will be run by the Council of State of France. The topic of this seminar will be "Citizens' access to justice and judicial bodies in environmental matters – national particularities and influences of European Union law". The principle of holding a second seminar was approved too: it would be held in the first quarter of 2013 and would be organised in cooperation with ReNEUAL, a network of professors of European administrative law. It would address the specific topic of the role of the administrative courts in the food safety procedures established at European Union level.
The Board also looked at the programme of working visits by judges for 2012 and discussed the association's budget. The Board members paid particularly close attention to the matter of ACA-Europe's funding within the framework of the European Commission's multi-annual plans for 2014-2020.
This Board meeting was chaired by Mr Juan Antonio Xiol, President of the Supreme Court of Spain.
