A/HRC/32/34 55. Specific indicators can measure different dimensions of justice systems. By way of illustration, indicators can shed light on the composition of personnel of the justice sector, their training, the budgetary resources allocated to them, their salaries, or even the level of judicial independence. 56. There are many reasons to justify the need for indicators focused on the justice system. First, such indicators are a useful tool for drawing a more accurate map of the situation in each country. On the basis of information obtained through these indicators, States can diagnose problems more precisely and develop more effective solutions to improve the issues and dysfunctions identified. These specific indicators will therefore constitute an instrument for States to better manage their respective judicial systems. 57. Second, judicial indicators can enable dialogue, on both the needs and the progress achieved by justice systems, between the different groups involved — those that have a role to play in the system and those that benefit from it, including judges, lawyers, prosecutors, government officials, members of civil society, or the international donor community. 58. The Special Rapporteur believes that judicial indicators could serve as a framework for assessing the status of the various institutions of justice in a given State and as a compass for countries wishing to progress and to achieve better performance of their justice sector. 59. The Special Rapporteur notes that indicators will not involve, initially, an evaluation system on the quality of each judicial system. They should consist of a set of benchmarks allowing study of the status of essential judicial structures. 60. For these reasons, the Special Rapporteur hopes to develop, during the course of her mandate, a proposition for judicial indicators to increase awareness of the role of justice in every country. To do so, she will develop an initial project that will be presented to the Human Rights Council and other stakeholders in due course, in which she wishes to incorporate the different perspectives described in the present report in order to propose a menu of indicators with a degree of acceptance by the international community. V. Conclusions and considerations 61. The present report expresses the preliminary views of the Special Rapporteur on her mandate and the particular project that she hopes to carry out. Essentially, she has noticed that there is, today, a fairly complete set of principles and prerequisites regarding the independence of judges, prosecutors and lawyers, which have been recognized in a significant number of international and regional instruments, some of which are binding on States, and have been developed through the jurisprudence of regional courts, treaty bodies, and other interpretative documents, including the thematic and mission reports of former mandate holders. 62. Forty years after the entry into force of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, thirty years after the adoption of the Basic Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary, and twenty-five years after the adoption of the Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers and the Guidelines on the Role of Prosecutors, the time has come for the independence of judges, prosecutors and lawyers to be revisited. 63. In the present context, renewed commitments to the principles of an independent and impartial justice system are necessary in order to make them a reality. All stakeholders, including political authorities, and members of the judiciary, the legal profession and the prosecution services, but also civil society representatives, should be aware of the role of independent judges, prosecutors and lawyers in a 13