The Conference of Ministers of Justice of Ibero-American Countries (COMJIB)is an international body that brings together the political leaders in the area of Justice of the 21 Ibero-American States. Its General Secretariat is based in Madrid, Spain. The COMJIB also assumes the General Secretariat of IberRed, the Ibero-American Network for International Legal Cooperation.

The Conference aims at promoting public policies in the Justice sector, seeking the formation of strategic alliances between the States in order to improve Justice with a public commitment to quality. It is an ideal forum for the exchange of information, to agree and harmonize policies and to strengthen international cooperation among the countries of the Ibero-American Community. Therefore, the goal of the COMJIB is to become an effective instrument for the development and the improvement of the justice systems in the different member States, serving the Ministries of Justice and the institutions of the Justice sector.

In this context, the Ministers of Justice chose several working lines as the preferred areas for the Conference's activity, including the field of "New Technologies for the administration of Justice", and this Web portal is one of the projects developed along this line.

Here you may find information on the Justice systems of the COMJIB Member States and you can access the on-line services made available by the countries in the field of justice. In the future, it may also become a platform for access to international cooperation tools, just like the current videoconferences among the different systems and courts.

In this sense, the COMJIB has already developed, instruments such as a Model agreement for the transfer of technological good practices among the COMJIB member States,the latter is a result of a project supporting the judicial system in Costa Rica for the dematerialization of the judicial proceedings. It is presented in a document that could be useful in any State involved in a similar process.

At the time being, the COMJIB is working on obtaining the approval of an international agreement to facilitate the use of videoconferences in international judicial cooperation among the COMJIB member States.

(March 2010)