Recognizing the vital role of courts in the administration of justice and the need to ensure that courts exercise their judicial functions free of all internal and external influences and in the spirit of complete independence and accountability;

Determined to establish a judiciary that upholds the supremacy of the law and earns and maintains the trust of the people by ensuring transparency, impartiality and public confidence in the process by which judges are appointed as well as by ensuring that members of the judiciary conduct their judicial functions with complete independence, impartiality and accountability;

WHEREAS, in order to achieve the above fundamental objectives, it is necessary to restructure the Judicial Administration Council established under Proclamation No. 684/2010 in fundamental ways;

NOW, THEREFORE, in accordance with Article 55(1) of the Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, it is hereby proclaimed as follows.