1The new members of the Steering Council who will fill in the vacancies created to the effect of this law must be elected within 30 days from the establishment of the High Judicial Council and the High Prosecutorial Council. Upon the election of chairperson of the High Judicial Council and the chairperson of the High Prosecutorial Council, they will be members of the Steering Council.

2The Director, full-time pedagogues of the School of Magistrates shall stay in office unless they fail the re-evaluation process or are removed from office for other lawful reasons.

3In accordance with the law “On transitional re-evaluation of judges and prosecutors in the Republic of Albania”, the School of Magistrates is tasked with organising an extraordinary competition for admission of 25 candidate magistrates, respectively for the academic year 2016-2017 and 2017-2018. The choice of profile of the judge and prosecutor for the winning candidates for each academic year shall be 15 judges and 10 prosecutors in case of lack of an agreement between the High Council of Justice and the Prosecutor General or between other competent institutions, which has to be concluded not later than 4 weeks since the entry into effect of this law".

4The Academic year 2016 – 2017 for the School of Magistrates shall start upon the completion of the competition, however, not later than 4 weeks since the entry into effect of this law.

5The competition for admission to the academic year 2017 – 2018 shall be conducted in April 2017, in accordance with the provisions of the law “On the status of judges and prosecutors in the Republic of Albania”.