The scope of the present paper is to synthetize, based on pertinent international standards and on the legal doctrine, certain evaluation criteria of the quality and efficiency of the judicial inspection activity, in order to value judicial selfgovernance on the dimension of improving the overall activity of Justice as a public service, as a protector and guarantor of Human Rights. Judicial inspection bodies, in the conceptual approach of the investigation, are those entities – exponents of the Judiciary, but different from Councils for the Judiciary, that exercise competencies in the area of disciplinary liability of judges and in the area of verification of organizational activity of courts. The research is focused on an analysis of three evaluation criteria – professional, operational and institutional (without pretending them to be exhaustive), each of them being represented by certain indicators. Qualitative and efficient activity of the judicial inspection body have an essential contribution in the process of reformation and of consolidation of Justice in the conditions of contemporary society.
