1The Deanery of the Law Faculty shall within seven days on the expiry of the period for submission of expression of interest, call a special meeting to verify legal requirements met by candidates.

2The verification of fulfilment of legal requirements and support shall be the only topic in the agenda of the meeting called by the Deanery.

3The meeting called by the Deanery shall be valid when more than half of its members are attending. Failure to participate, without due cause, in the meeting called by the Deanery for the verification of legal criteria and the support of candidates for members of the High Prosecutorial Council, shall constitute disciplinary misconduct by the Deanery members.

4The meeting called by the Deanery shall make decisions by majority vote of present members.

5The Deanery members, who run as candidates, shall not take part in the meeting and they shall not vote. In the event of the dean putting up his candidacy, his tasks shall be assumed by one of the deputy deans.

6The Dean shall, at the end of the meeting, officially announce the candidates, displaying them at the notice board of the university or the Law faculty or in another visible place and shall submit the list of candidates to the Rector of the HEI, associated with a report explaining the meeting or non-meeting of the conditions for each of the candidates.

7Disqualified candidates shall be notified in writing individually by a reasoned decision on the causes for the disqualification.

8The rules laid down in paragraphs 1 to 7 of this Article shall apply also to verification of fulfilment of the legal criteria by the candidates of the School of Magistrates. In this case, responsibilities provided for by this Article on the deanery of the faculty, shall be exercised by the Meeting of the Pedagogical Council of the School of Magistrates. The responsibilities provided for in paragraph 6 of this Article on the dean of the faculty shall be exercised by the director of the School of Magistrates. The list of candidates shall be forwarded to the Head of the Steering Council of the School of Magistrates by the director of the School of Magistrates.