Ms Vra Jourov?:

That is why we are running two exercises. One is a justice scoreboard, which is more or less arithmetic, including how many days, which kind of file, how many judges and so on. We were aware that this cannot be sufficient for assessing the quality and robustness of the judiciary system in a member state. That is why we complemented it with this rule of law report, which is going more after the unquantifiable factors. We try to capture or cover complex systems through the report.

However, it is big difference from when I started in the Commission. The rule of law principle was in the Lisbon treaty but, honestly, there was not much care about that. We were convinced that this is something like perpetuum mobileand it will function well forever.When Poland announced and introduced judiciary reform in a political campaign and then implemented it, it was a big wake-up call for the whole of Europe. I am grateful to all the partners in the member states who will co-operate on the rule of report, because I feel this is a common work. The final word is for the Commission, but we can together make the system much more robust in every state.