Significant changes to the Code of Civil Procedure

On 14.05.2021 was published in the Official Gazette Law no. 44/2021 “On some additions and amendments in the law no. 8116, dated 29.3.1996, "The Code of Civil Procedure of the Republic of Albania", amended" which enters into force on 29.05.2021. This law mainly intervenes in the provisions on the conflict over competence and jurisdiction, the dismissals of judges, the review of lawsuits with small amounts, the trial before the Court of Appeals and the High Court and the unification of court practices by the High Court.

Two essential remedial amendments directly affect the value of lawsuits, the efficiency and speed of civil trials:

increasing the value of lawsuits arising from a contractual relationship, and which are considered as a trial of lawsuits with small amounts that are judged by a Judge both in the first instance and in the Court of Appeals. This value is twentyfold the national minimum wage; and
adjudication of special appeals against the decision to rejection of the request for issuance of the executive order, special appeals against the decision of the court that has reviewed the opposition of the bailiff actions, as well as other cases provided in the Code.

With these amendments in the CCP, is being tried to unlock many cases that are pending in the Courts of Appeal and that are not being addressed in time as a result of the dismissal of many judges of these courts.