In Kyrgyzstan, the strategy for the development of the bailiff service is being discussed through the introduction of an automated register of debtors, electronic trading and the implementation of an action plan. This was announced on October 9 at a round table organized by the Judicial Department of the Supreme Court of the Kyrgyz Republic with the support of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the International Development Law Organization (IDLO).

According to Nurlan Pirnazarov, Head of the Department for the Enforcement of Judicial Acts, increasing confidence in bailiffs through enhancing human resources, increasing the number of bailiffs, wages and social security, their training and improving the infrastructure are important tasks of this performers.

In addition, attention is paid to the automation of processes to improve the performance of bailiffs. At the round table shared intermediate results of the pilot projects on the register of debtors and electronic trading.

“The system of electronic registration“ The Register of Debtors ”automates the process of entering data on the one hand, and on the other – will facilitate the access of citizens to information that the availability and amount of debt can find out via the Internet,” said Alexander Yuryev, director of the Information Technology Institution.

The event was held in the framework of the project “Enhancing the capacity of judicial executors of the Kyrgyz Republic” with the participation of the EBRD General Counsel Marie-Anne Birken and Fred Houston, Director of the IDLO branch in Kyrgyzstan. In addition to the main issues of the strategy, participants discussed topical issues on the application of the Criminal Code, the Code of Misconduct and the Code of violations in enforcement proceedings.

Recall that the bailiff is an official who enforces the execution of decisions of courts in civil cases, settlement agreements, sentences, rulings and decisions of courts in criminal cases in terms of property penalties.