V. JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS A. Providing continuity and giving final touches to justice reforms 1. To efficiently implement the Justice Sector Reform Strategy for 2011-2016 and enforce its outputs. 2. To work out a new policy document in order to ensure the continuity of justice reform. 3. To decriminalize the legislation by setting-up and implementing more farreaching efficient non-custody punitive measures, diversifying and increasing the efficiency of probation instrument. 4. To optimise the maps of courts and specialization of judges, as well as to create specialised panels of judges, including in the courts of the first instance, in order to ensure the quality of decisions, to efficiently and randomly distribute cases, improve the management and optimise the costs for maintaining the courts. 5. To set up a transparent system based on professionalism and integrity to accede and be promoted in the office of judge, including at the Courts of Appeal and Supreme Court of Justice. 6. To analyse the appeal system in order to make more efficient mechanisms and ensure the trial participants with the right to defence and advertisement of court sessions. 7. To strengthen the operation capacities and increase the functional efficiency of the Judicial Inspection and Judicial Management Department. 8. To reduce the duration of trials, including by simplifying proceedings when it is about civil actions (including by reducing the number of steps to contest court decisions, mandatory introduction of mediation for a certain type of civil litigations). 9. To work out and ensure the implementation of criteria on quality of decisions, to join the judiciary practice and reform rules as to motivation of sentences in line with international standards, in order to guarantee the right to a fair trial. To reduce the number of judicial errors by improving the refresher courses for magistrates. To work out responsibility criteria for judges as to quality of act of justice. 10. To monitor the implementation of the legal framework on the activity of the Superior Council of Magistracy and its bodies in order to strengthen their capacities, diminish the discretion line when making decisions, ensure the transparency in activity, as well as to review, if necessary, the provisions in force in the field. 31