The Romanian section of GEMME - May 2011
The Romanian section of GEMME
The project proposal "Promoting mediation in cross-border cases in civil matters” (partners: The Mediation Council - Romania, the European Association of Judges Supporting Mediation – GEMME, the Ministry of Justice in Holland, the Ministry of Justice in Bulgaria, the Ministry of Justice on the Republic of Moldova) was submitted for approval on 1st of September 2010 within the Civil Justice 2010 Programme. The objective is to promoting mediation in cross-border cases, through the means of: professional training session for judges, mediators, Member States‟ central institutions‟ representatives that participate; elaboration of a good practices guide for specialists; elaboration and distribution of information brochures for the public, that would contain information regarding the mediation’s advantages for use in causes with cross-border elements and the coordinates of specialized mediators on diverse domains. Our project has been selected for financing by the European Commission. The Commission that we intend to begin the project's implementation at the beginning of May, after the signing of the grant agreement.
Following the conference of 29 October 2010, the Academic Printing House (www.editurauniversitara.ro) published the book ”Mediation in the European Union. Current situation and prospects”. The volume was developed by the Romanian section of GEMME.
http://www.editurauniversitara.ro/carte/medierea-in-uniunea-europeana-stadiu-si-perspective--i917?eVitalShopID=f91df4eac7b977b4a4129514832b3e8f
The Romanian Section signed a protocol to promote mediation with the Bucharest Court of Appeal, the highest court in Romania, and with The Mediation Council and is preparing to launch a new volume, including all judgments in 2010 in the mediation field in Romania. Location of monitors in courts (first of all, in the Hall of Lost Steps of the Palace of Justice in Bucharest) enables us to run, alongside regular public information of the court, information relating to mediation (legislation, benefits, mediators, role plays performed by professional actors).
The Romanian Section of GEMME collaborates with the Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University in a Master of Studies program about mediation. In April 2011, judges, members of GEMME, participated as speakers in two conferences organized by Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University and Nicolae Titulescu University, with presentation about GEMME and mediation as alternative method of resolving conflicts.
We, also, start a collaboration with the mediation magazine ”Mediation. Engineering and Art” (www.mediereatehnicasiarta.ro), which has a space, coordinated by a GEMME member, dedicated to magistrates and their experience in mediation.
With the support of some judges, members of GEMME, at the Sixth, Fifth and Fourth District Court of first instance and at the Iasi Court of first instance, were opened offices that provide free information about mediation and its procedure.
The Romanian section of GEMME