Thanks to this project, 20 Croatian courts have been equipped with almost 1,700 computers.
This twinning project, financed by the European Commission and supported by the Finnish Justice Ministry, ensured a majority of the above mentioned fund, i.e. three million euros, for the installment of computers in the 20 courts.
The implementation of the project also produced some recommendations such as that budgetary funds should in the future be allocated to courts in accordance with their performance.
Croatian Justice Minister Ana Lovrin said that a recently adopted strategy for judicial reform incorporated that recommendation as well as some other ones.
Another adopted recommendation is that 15 magistrate's courts and municipal courts would soon be merged as part of measures aimed at rationalising the number of courts.
"Croatia is among European countries with the highest number of courts, judges and administrative staff but also with the highest number of backlog cases," Minister Lovrin said.
The trend of a rise in the number of backlog cases was stopped for the first time in 2005, and this year all pending cases in land registries and distress proceedings should be solved, she said.
The head of the European Commission Delegation, Vincent Degert, said that the EC would continue supporting judicial reform in Croatia.