1The professional education of judicial civil servants shall be ensured through the inclusion of the judicial civil servants into the following programs:

aThe initial training program, on the basis of which the judicial civil servants recruited in the judicial civil service shall be trained within their probation period;

bThe continuous training program, which shall be attended by incumbent judicial civil servants.

2The School of Magistrates in cooperation with the High Judicial Council, Ministry of Justice, courts and other institutions shall ensure the initial and continuous training of chancellors, legal advisors of the High Court and other legal assistants, as well as shall prepare the curricula for the initial training for chancellors for a period of at least three months and for legal advisors and legal assistants for a period of at least nine months, under the conditions set out in the Law “On Governance Institutions of the Justice System in the Republic of Albania”.

3The High Judicial Council in cooperation with the School of Magistrates, Ministry of Justice, courts and other institutions shall ensure the initial and continuous vocational training of other judicial civil servants and shall prepare the curricula for their initial training for a period of one month, at least.

4The School of Magistrates shall adopt more detailed rules on the initial and continuous training of chancellors, legal advisors and legal assistants. The High Judicial Council shall adopt more detailed rules on the initial and continuous training of all other judicial civil servants.