On 1 March, court presidents presented their 2017 annual reports to the Kosovo Judicial Council. On this occasion, the Action "Strengthening the Quality and Efficiency of Justice in Kosovo*" (KoSEJ) witnessed positive results of its cooperation with beneficiaries to improve their methodology to analyse and report on judicial statistics. 

The annual reports now include graphs on the yearly evolution, for the main categories of cases, of the clearance rate, which is one of the two key The European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice's performance indicators to assess court efficiency. The graphs were presented and discussed in workshops organised for court staff, as part of KoSEJ's court coaching programme.

The Kosovo Judicial Council chairman tasked its Court Performance Unit to prepare graph templates to ensure consistency between all court reports and encouraged all courts presidents to prepare such graphs in future reports. This demonstrates the readiness of the KoSEJ beneficiaries to take ownership of the The European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice's tools and use them properly and promptly.

The Action "Strengthening the Quality and Efficiency of Justice in Kosovo" is co-funded by the European Union and the Council of Europe within the Horizontal Facility for Western Balkans and Turkey programme and implemented by the Council of Europe.

*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence.