The modernization of the Administration of Justice and its outreach to citizens is a fundamental objective in the policy of the Spanish Government in recent years.

The key to success for the modernization of the Justice Administration is the appropriate combination of improvements in the management of the media assigned to the judicial system, with regulatory reforms, organizational changes, improvements technology, redistribution of tasks. Success also depends, in particular, on our ability to get the various actors involved in justice to take on and make their modernisation process their own. For this reason, it is also necessary to involve the professionals who provide their services or collaborate with the Administration of Justice as well as civil society and the private sector.

In short, the modernization of the Administration of Justice must be addressed simultaneously in different areas: organizational, technological, economic, social and normative. All these factors are articulated in the Strategic Plan of Modernization of the Administration of Justice 2009-2012 through the objectives, strategic axes and programs of action included in it.

The complexity of the challenge posed has demanded to address its development by ensuring the formation of strategic alliances with institutions and the participation of both legal and civil society operators.

Hence the importance of promoting practices that ensure a more agile, modern, efficient, efficient and accessible justice to the citizen.

In line with this objective, it is considered appropriate to create an Award that serves as encouragement, encouragement and recognition of experiences and procedures that contribute to the process of modernization of the Administration of Justice.

In compliance with the above, I have:

First. Object. This order aims to establish the regulatory basis for the Best Practices in Justice Award as recognition and for the dissemination of the best experiences and proposals developed for the optimization of the procedural and organisational methods, working procedures, management of resources and staff linked to the Justice Administration in Spain.

Second. Participants requirements.

1. All natural and legal persons, entities and bodies, public or private, judicial bodies, administrative units, organisations, foundations or associations which have developed, may attend this call. actions aimed at improving and optimizing practices in the Administration of Justice in Spain.

2. Natural persons may participate individually, or integrated into working groups.

Third. Categories of the Best Practices in Justice Award.

1. The Best Practices in Justice Award will have the following categories:

a) Application of Information Technologies for the Improvement of Justice Services. It aims to recognize the incorporation or optimization of technological systems or applications that facilitate access and treatment of information in judicial processes and in the administrative management of justice.

b) Good practices in the organizational and management field. They refer to practices or experiences that contribute to the operation of the Administration of Justice with certain conditions that allow greater ease for the performance of tasks, in a more effective and efficient way and with an optimal Resource utilization.

c) Initiatives for a people-oriented justice service. It refers to practices that contribute to the effectiveness, efficiency and quality of access to justice and to the user's attention; also to initiatives that help to consolidate a more transparent, efficient and transparent administration of justice close to the citizen; practices that have contributed to minimising risks of exclusion, facilitating access to justice on equal opportunities and conditions. In conclusion, all those initiatives that in greater or lesser degree are an asset within the Administration of Justice to achieve greater social cohesion.

d) Practices for the dissemination and exchange of information. Reference is made to those initiatives whose main objective is the exchange and dissemination of experiences through any means or communication tools. This activity should promote communication through the creation of networks between professional sectors related to the field of the administration of justice, in order to facilitate a framework of collaboration through the pooling of experiences and opinions, also serving as a working tool for professional practice.

2. The proposed practices will be eligible for only one of the four categories.

Fourth. Endowment of Best Practices in Justice Award categories.

1. The Prize regulated in this Order will not be economic in nature.

2. The recipients may record in their publications, printed material and web pages that they have received the corresponding award, as well as advertise it in their facilities for an indefinite period.

3. A prize will be awarded for each category called.

4. On a proposal from the Jury, honorable mentions may be granted to those candidates who, in the jury's opinion, have sufficient merit to do so.

5. The prize may be declared desert, in all or some of its categories, in case none of the entries meet the merits sufficient to be awarded the prize.

Fifth. Requests.

1. Applications shall conform to the model shown in each call. The form will be unique but the applicant will be required to register the application in a single one of the four proposed categories.

2. Applications shall be addressed to the Minister of Justice and the invitation to tender shall specify the ways of submitting them, as part of the routes referred to in the following paragraph.

3. Requests to participate must be formalized within 20 days of the date of publication of this order in the BOE, by any means provided for in Article 38.4 of Law 30/1992, of 26 November, of the Legal of Public Administrations and of the Common Administrative Procedure, as amended by Law 4/1999, of January 13.

4. In accordance with Article 71 of that Law No 30/1992 of 26 November 1992, if the application for submission does not meet the precise requirements, the person concerned shall be required to remedy the absence or to accompany it within 10 days. the required documents, indicating that, if they do not do so, they shall be given the withdrawal of their request, where the latter is filed, upon resolution which shall be dictated by the terms of Article 42.1 of the indicated Law.

5. Applications shall be accompanied by a description of the practice to be submitted to the competition which shall conform to the specifications set out in the Annex to these bases. Memories that do not conform to those requirements will not be taken into consideration, and therefore, not evaluated. The presentation of the descriptive memory assumes the acceptance of the bases of the present call.

Sixth. Competent procedures and organs.

1. The call for successive editions of the Best Practices in Justice Award will be made by Order of the Minister of Justice. The calls will be published in the "Official State Gazette".

2. The General Directorate of Modernization of the Administration of Justice shall be responsible for the instruction of the necessary acts for the award of the Awards.

3. Applications submitted shall be subject to the consideration of a Jury appointed by the Minister of Justice, whose members shall be appointed by the Minister of Justice in the call between persons of recognised experience in the Administration of Justice, in number which in no case may be less than 3 or greater than 7.

4. In order to form the Jury, gender parity will be considered in its composition, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 7.9 of the Agreement of the Council of Ministers on the Equality of Men and Women of 4 March 2005, currently in force according to the Agreement of 3 March 2006 (BOE of 18 March 2006).

5. The operation of the Jury shall be governed by the rules contained in Chapter II of Law 30/1992, of 26 November, of the Legal Regime of Public Administrations and of the Common Administrative Procedure.

6. The Jury will raise the proposal to the Minister of Justice with the award of the prize in its various categories. If, in the jury's judgment, no candidacy meets the sufficient merits, all or some of its categories will be declared deserted.

7. The President of the Jury, depending on the number of applications received, may appoint a technical evaluation team selected from experts and professionals with ties to the Administration of Justice that will transmit to the Jury how many reports are necessary for the knowledge of the evaluation process, and in any case a report in which the entries received separated by categories and ordered according to the assessment criteria established.

8. The members of the Jury, as well as, where appropriate, the members of the technical evaluation team, shall keep due confidentiality on the results of the assessments of the projects carried out.

9. The award of the Prize, to be made by Order of the Minister of Justice, and its publication in the Official Gazette of the State, shall be made within the maximum period of three months from the end of the deadline for the submission of applications.

10. The convocation of the Prizes and the administrative acts resulting from it shall end the administrative route, and against the same persons shall institute administrative litigation, without prejudice to the replenishment remedy established in Article 116 of Law 30/92 of 26 November of the Legal Regime of Public Administrations and of the Common Administrative Procedure.

Seventh. Grant criteria.

1. The Jury will assess that the work presented can bring positive results transferred to similar contexts, with the necessary adaptations. In addition, during the process of assessing the work, the Jury must take into account:

a) Compliance with the objectives of the Prize. 10 points.

b) The quality of the jobs. 10 points.

c) The innovation of the proposal. 10 points.

d) The research work done. 10 points.

e) The ability to synthesize the participant in the elaboration of the memory, and systematic in the exhibition of the topic. 10 points.

2. The Jury will only be able to assess work that is supported by demonstrated experiences that contribute to improvements in the results, deadlines or use of resources and processes within the different areas of the awards that are given.

Such experiences should always refer to a coherent set or sequence of actions, which may be working methods, new technologies or new uses of these, procedures, or other elements applied in The scope of Justice is positive results.

They need to be transferable; that is, that they are moved and adapted to similar contexts, they can also bring positive results.

3. For the assessment of the above criteria, the Jury may seek expert advice in the various categories of the award.

4. The Jury shall not be able to assess work from administrative units dependent on other organically superior units which have also applied for the same category on the same call.

Eighth. Commitments of the Ministry of Justice.

1. The Ministry of Justice will disseminate the prize through the website of the Ministry of Justice and the Judicial Office Web site and its related publications.

2. The selected projects will be published in a Good Practice in Justice memory edited by the Ministry of Justice, with special mention of the first prize.

3. Where appropriate, mention shall be made of the personal file of the public official involved in the award-winning experience.

Ninth. Commitments of the participants.

1. The Ministry of Justice reserves the right of reproduction, distribution and public communication, by means of the appropriate means, of the materials that are awarded. To this end, both the memories and the materials and multimedia elements that could be presented (photographs, presentations or any others) must have the corresponding assignment in favor of the Ministry of Justice, and they will not be able to be including materials of which no ownership, reservation of rights or intellectual property is held, unless they are of free distribution, by crediting any of these ends in their case by means of a responsible declaration in accordance with the Article 71 (1) (1) of Law No 30/1992 of 26 November 1992. The selected ones are committed to collaborate in making the necessary adaptations.

2. The awarded participants, as well as the distinguished ones with honorable mention, are committed to participate in the actions organized by the Ministry of Justice for the dissemination-in-person, graphic or audiovisual-of this Prize for Good Practices in Justice. They shall also authorise the Ministry of Justice to publish, where appropriate, the memoirs referred to in paragraph 5.

10th. Incompatibilities. -obtaining the Best Practices in Justice award will be compatible with obtaining any other award or grant of the same purpose.

Final disposition first. Legal regime.

The awards for Good Practices in Justice shall be governed, apart from the provisions of this Order, by Law 30/1992, of 26 November of the Legal Regime of Public Administrations and of the Administrative Procedure. Common.

Final disposition second. Enablement.

The Director General of Modernization of the Administration of Justice is hereby authorized to amend the Annex to this order by resolution.

Final disposition third. Entry into force.

This Order shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the "Official State Gazette".

Madrid, April 13, 2011. -Minister of Justice Francisco Caamano Domínguez.

ANNEX

Good Practices in Justice Award Memory Specifications

1. Content and pages.

I. Cover (one page): Memory title, name/s/s and logo (if applicable).

II. Copy of the application form.

III. General content index, with paging (a page).

IV. Short presentation of/s/s (a page).

V. Brief description of the project. A synopsis where the objectives of the proposed practice or procedure are set out. The results obtained and the innovation of the practice (maximum of 5 pages) should be described briefly.

VI. Body of the document. Detailed explanation of the proposal, including an assessment of the results and benefits obtained (maximum of 50 pages).

VII. Annexes: If necessary, they will be used to annex a limited number of documents that are considered indispensable for the understanding, illustration or corroboration of the proposal. They must be perfectly identified and numbered within the memory. Employee acronyms and acronyms are recommended (maximum of 30 pages).

If more pages are presented, the additional pages will not be taken into account in the assessment, whether they belong to the memory or to the complementary materials (attachments).

2. Configuration. The pages of the memory, typed by a single face and numbered, will be configured in A4 size (210mm x 297mm), with a simple interline and using the type of Arial letter with minimum body of 11 points.

3. Support and presentation. The memory will be sent in the following media and number of copies:

Two paper copies, in "Word" format.

An example in electronic media: a CD ROM containing the Memory in file ". doc" ("Microsoft Word") and a file ". pdf" ("Acrobat"). The computer support will be in order to avoid distortion problems, all graphics that are included in the Memory must be inserted in the pages of the file "Microsoft Word".

Support items if needed. In the elaboration of the memory, it will be sought, in all cases, to argue and to show the evidence of the actions carried out. Any other information that could be included in computer support or digital format will be evaluated by the Jury only as a complementary criterion.

4. Presentation. The memory will be sent to the following address:

Best Practices in Justice Award.

General Administration of Modernization of the Administration of Justice.

Ministry of Justice.

St. Bernard Street 19.

28015 Madrid.