📋 Tender Overview
Contract partner: Various carriers
Country: Albania Contract type: Delegated cooperation Project start: 01.10.2025 Funding amount: € 750.000,00 End: 31.01.2027
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Overall goal
The project aims to increase the professional quality of judges and prosecutors, reduce the impact of organized crime, politics and corruption in the delivery of justice, and enhance the integrity and accountability of judiciary institutions. The overall objective of the project is to support Albania to enhance integrity, independence, and accountability of the justice system.
Expected results
1. IMO reports to the European Commission, the EU Delegation to Tirana, and to the IMO Board in a timely and consistent manner.
2. IMO carries out its mandate in an efficient and consistent manner.
Target group / Beneficiaries
The target group includes, in total 805 Albanian judges and prosecutors who, based on the vetting law, are being re-evaluated on the basis of integrity, ethical background and professional competence. Considering that all the first instances cases were completed by 31 December 2024, under the time frame of the IMO III project, during the remaining period (IMO IV) the IMO will monitor the second instance process, and in occasional cases the vetting related activities of the Councils. Indirect beneficiaries of the project are the Albanian citizens, who – as a consequence of the vetting process and the work of the IMO – will benefit from reduced levels of corruption within the justice system in Albania, which will ultimately restore public confidence and trust in the judiciary.
Activities
The IMO deploys International Observers to monitor the entire re-evaluation process, through a long-term operation that will last until all members of the judiciary in Albanian have undergone the transitional qualification assessment. The IMO IV project covers the appeal phase of the vetting process. It is expected that by the end of the project all members of the judiciary in Albania have undergone the respective proceedings of transitional re-evaluation. Based on their Constitutional mandate, the Observers will monitor the vetting activities:
• Monitoring of Appeals Procedures in front of the Appeal Chamber
• Monitoring the vetting case management of Special Prosecution Office Head, High Judicial Council and/or High Prosecutorial Council
• Review of Appeal Chamber progress
• Monitoring of the Constitutional Court
• Post-vetting technical closure
Context
The Albanian justice system is facing several challenges, such as integrity, independence, efficiency, accountability and transparency, which has resulted in a lack of public trust in the justice system. Albania therefore embarked on a major justice reform, whereby the existing challenges are being addressed through different interventions. One of the most important aspects is the re-evaluation of judges and prosecutors, known as the vetting process, aiming at freeing the judici
