Romanian Justice Minister Tudorel Toader attends the EU Informal Justice Council meeting in Bucharest, Romania, Feb. 8, 2019. Most viewpoints on the future of European judicial cooperation have been convergent at the Informal Justice Council meeting of the European Union (EU), said on Friday Romanian Justice Minister Tudorel Toader. (Xinhua/Cristian Cristel)
BUCHAREST, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- Most viewpoints on the future of European judicial cooperation have been convergent at the Informal Justice Council meeting of the European Union (EU), said on Friday Romanian Justice Minister Tudorel Toader.
There were three major topics of debate at the meeting and "most viewpoints have been convergent," the minister told a joint press conference with European Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova, after the Justice section of a two-day informal EU meeting of the Justice and Home Affairs' ministers that ended on Friday.
According to Toader, the first topic was on the future of judicial cooperation in civil and commercial matters, a second issue on electronic evidence, their preservation and provision in criminal cases, while the third big topic referred to the future of judicial cooperation in criminal matters.
"The discussions will continue at technical level in the other meetings," the minister said, voicing hope that some of the current legislative files taken over from the Austrian Presidency will be closed during Romania's Presidency at the EU Council in the first semester of the current year.
Toader also hoped that, at the end of the presidency, it could be said that Romania contributed to the harmonization of legislation and the promotion of judicial cooperation in the European space, to the improvement of the protection standards for fundamental rights and freedoms, as well as to the promotion of economic, cultural and social cooperation in the European region and to the improvement of the life of the European citizens.
