e-Justice Conference 2018 'e-Courts in Europe' took place on 5 and 6 December 2018 in Vienna and was organized by the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
Member States presented their established or planned solutions to e-filing & e-delivery, electronic file systems and electronic courtrooms, artificial intelligence, digital forensics and e-CODEX. On Wednesday, 5 December, delegations were welcomed to a reception and a gala dinner at the Federal Ministry of Constitutional Affairs, Reforms, Deregulation and Justice.
During the second day of the conference the EVIDENCE2e-CODEX project, implemented in partnership with LIBRe Foundation, was also presented. Dr. Maria Angela Biasiotti, EVIDENCE2e-CODEX Project Coordinator, talked on the topic of electronic evidence and digital forensics. She introduced the electronic evidence life cycle and the main steps for evidence exchange between courts in Europe nowadays. Then, she continued with detailed explanation about the project, its history, goals and current stage of implementation; and concluded with a showcase of the evidence exchange within the EIO and through the e-Evidence Exchange System and presentation of the Evidence Exchange Standard Application, developed within the project, and its main business processes.
Alexandra Tsvetkova, Director of LIBRe Foundation, was among the invited representatives from Bulgaria, given her active participation in the field of e-Justice in recent years and her involvement as a Dissemination Team Leader of the EVIDENCE2e-CODEX project.